[f. ACCOMPANY + -ING2.] Acting as a companion; going along with; attending; attached, appended.
1850. McCosh, Div. Govt. (1874), III. iii. 428. The moral good or the evil lies not in the affection itself, but in its accompanying desire or volition.
1880. Haughton, Phys. Geogr., iii. 134. The Gulf Stream is shewn in the accompanying map.
