Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To hold inside.

*

At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

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(lb) To include as a part.

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(lb) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

The king's person contains the unruly people from evil occasions.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves.

*

Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

To have as an element.

To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

* Bible, vii. 9.

But if they can not contain , let them marry.

Verb

(en-verb)

To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.

* 1804 :

The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.

* 1581 , (Philip Sidney), An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy , Book I:

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

* 1979 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), The History of England :

He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.

To supplement with; add to.

* , chapter=5

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(senseid)(music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.

(music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.

(obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.

* (rfdate) Holland:

Men say that they will drive away one another, […] and not accompany together.

(obsolete) To cohabit (with).

(obsolete) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.

(the obsolete cases)