in Perspective, is that point in the horizontal line where the projections of two lines parallel to each other meet the perspective plane.

ACCIPITER, among the Romans, signified a hawk, which, from its being very carnivorous, they considered as a bird of bad omen:

Odimus accipitrem, quia semper vivit in armis. Ovtn.

Pliny however tells us, that in some cases, particularly in marriage, it was esteemed a bird of good omen, because it never eats the hearts of other birds; intimating thereby, that no differences in a married state ought to reach the heart. The accipiter was worshipped as a divinity by the inhabitants of Tentyra, an island in the Nile, being considered by them as the image of the sun; and hence we find that luminary represented, in hieroglyphics, under the figure of a hawk.

In the Linnaean system this name is given to the first order of birds.

ACCISMSUS denotes a feigned refusal of something which a person earnestly desires. The word is Latin; or rather Greek, ἀκούσας; supposed to be formed from Acco, the name of a foolish old woman noted in antiquity for an affectation of this kind.