[f. ACCUR-ATE; see -ACY.] The state of being accurate; precision or exactness resulting from care; hence, precision, nicety, exactness, correctness.
1662. H. More, Antid. ag. Ath., II. x. 70 (1712). Which perfect artifice and accuracy might have been omitted.
1684. R. Waller, Ess. Nat. Exper., 12. Experiments that require a greater acuracy.
1765. Harris, Three Treat., III. II. 186. But why then, said I, such Accuracy about Externals.
1814. Scott, Waverley (1817), I. ix. 114. The garden … seemed to be kept with great accuracy.
1824. Dibdin, Libr. Comp., 90. This edition is executed with particular attention to accuracy.
1869. Huxley, Physiol., vii. 204 (ed. 3). Accuracy of singing depends upon the precision with which the singer can voluntarily adjust the contractions of the thyro-arytenoid and crico-thyroid muscles.
1892. R. Le Gallienne, Ret. Reviews (1896), I. Nov., 195. He [Bell Scott] had nothing but ridicule for some of their [pre-Raphaelites’] absurdities, as, for example, when he found Mr. Madox Brown’s drawing class sat down to sketch, not from any instructive model, but to copy with minute accuracy a few wood-shavings!
