ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Heaped up, collected.
1762. Falconer, Shipw., II. 263. Accumulated perils thus arise.
1764. Reid, Inq. Hum. Mind., v. § 1. 119. They make heat a particular element diffused through nature, and accumulated in the heated body.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., III. 144. To enrich his army with the accumulated spoils of three hundred triumphs.
1850. D. Thomas, Crisis of Being, i. 2. The past has given to you its accumulated experiences to study.
1860. Dickens, Lett. (1880), II. 121. Yesterday I burnt … the accumulated letters and papers of twenty years.
