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Accessor, n. and adj. Also: accessore, -our(e, -oir. [ad. late L. accessōrius, -ium. The corresponding Eng. accessory was app. not in use till after 1600.]

1. One who, or that which, is additional or accessory. 1456 Hay I. 272/22.
Quhare the principale gais the accessour folowis Ib. 273/20.
Sik accessoiris of expens, scathis and interess as efferis 1481 Acta Conc. 79/2.
Symoun … sat as Iuge or accessoure to the Iuge in the accioun 1549 Compl. 112/28.
Ȝour particular veil is bot ane accessor of ȝour comont veil, ande the accessor follouis the natur of the prencipal a1639 Spotsw. Hist. 40.
His kinsmen and others accounted accessors to the fact, … were fined

b. In predicate or as adj. Accessory to a crime. 1622-6 Bisset I. 218/31.
Quhasaevir makis … a fals wreit, or is accessour to the making thairof 1670 Lauder Jrnl. 234.
No man can scarse judge him any way accessor theirto

2. adj. Accessory, additional. c1575 Balfour Pract. 341 marg.
He quha is Judge in the principal cause, is also Judge in the accessore 1682 Decis. Lords F. 17.
Which diligence being upon the bond, did interrupt prescription thereof, and consequently of the inhibition which was accessor thereto