Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to accouter
Participle: accoutered
Gerund: accoutering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | accouter |
| you | accouter |
| he;she;it | accouters |
| we | accouter |
| you | accouter |
| they | accouter |
Perfect
| I | have accoutered |
| you | have accoutered |
| he;she;it | has accoutered |
| we | have accoutered |
| you | have accoutered |
| they | have accoutered |
Past
| I | accoutered |
| you | accoutered |
| he;she;it | accoutered |
| we | accoutered |
| you | accoutered |
| they | accoutered |
Pluperfect
| I | had accoutered |
| you | had accoutered |
| he;she;it | had accoutered |
| we | had accoutered |
| you | had accoutered |
| they | had accoutered |
Future
| I | will accouter |
| you | will accouter |
| he;she;it | will accouter |
| we | will accouter |
| you | will accouter |
| they | will accouter |
Future Perfect
| I | will have accoutered |
| you | will have accoutered |
| he;she;it | will have accoutered |
| we | will have accoutered |
| you | will have accoutered |
| they | will have accoutered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | accouter |
| you | accouter |
| he;she;it | accouter |
| we | accouter |
| you | accouter |
| they | accouter |
Perfect
| I | have accoutered |
| you | have accoutered |
| he;she;it | have accoutered |
| we | have accoutered |
| you | have accoutered |
| they | have accoutered |
Imperfect
| I | accoutered |
| you | accoutered |
| he;she;it | accoutered |
| we | accoutered |
| you | accoutered |
| they | accoutered |
Pluperfect
| I | had accoutered |
| you | had accoutered |
| he;she;it | had accoutered |
| we | had accoutered |
| you | had accoutered |
| they | had accoutered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would accouter |
| you | would accouter |
| he;she;it | would accouter |
| we | would accouter |
| you | would accouter |
| they | would accouter |
Perfect
| I | would have accoutered |
| you | would have accoutered |
| he;she;it | would have accoutered |
| we | would have accoutered |
| you | would have accoutered |
| they | would have accoutered |
Imperative
| you | accouter |
| we | Let's accouter |
| you | accouter |
Verbs conjugated like 'accouter'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'accouter'
accite,
accost,
accouche,
account,
accouple,
accourt,
accrete,
accrue,
accumber,
accuse,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to adorn or cover with clothing
- address, apparel, array, attire, beclothe, clothe, dight, don, dress, enrobe, equip, invest, put on, robe, slip on
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre (“to equip with clothes”), from Latin ad (“to”) + consūtūra (“sewing, clothes”), from Latin cōnsuō (“to sew together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + suō (“to sew”), first attested in the 1590s. See: Latin '
cōnsuō'.
Sample Sentences
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[…] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […] [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 177, column 1:]
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Vpon the word, / Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, [1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 110, column 2:]
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For this, in rags accoutered, are they seen, / And made the may-game of the public spleen? [1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Perseus”, in Walter Scott, editor, The works of John Dryden, volume 13, published 1808, page 235:]
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Both while he trod the earth in humblest guise / Accoutred with his burthen and his staff; [1814, William Wordsworth, “The Solitary”, in The Excursion:]
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There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed. [2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House:]