Accomplish

Ac·com·plish

Accomplish

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Accomplished; p. pr. & vb. n. Accomplishing

  1. To complete, as time or distance.
    That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
    — Dan. ix. 2.
    He had accomplished half a league or more.
  2. To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.
    This that is written must yet be accomplished in me.
    — Luke xxii. 37.
  3. To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
    The armorers accomplishing the knights.
    It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it.
    — Wilkins.
    These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman.
    — Cowden Clarke.
  4. To gain; to obtain. [Obs.]
    He . . . expressed his desire to see a union accomplished between England and Scotland.
    To work in close design by fraud or guile What force effected not.
    The Saints, like stars, around his seat Perform their courses still.