ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] lit. Pronounced with or distinguished by accent; furnished with written accents. fig. Emphasized, strongly marked.
1873. A. Flint, Physiol. of Man, i. 20. If the nerves be examined … their anatomical elements appear in the form of simple fibres with strongly accentuated borders.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, xii. 403. The olive stem retains in youth and middle and old age the distinction of finely accentuated form.
