Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.
source: Webster 1913
noun
clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing
source: WordNet 3.0
a supplementary component that improves capability
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someone who helps another person commit a crime
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That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
aiding and abetting in a crime
He was charged with being accessory to the crime.
source: WordNet 3.0
furnishing added support
An ancillary pump. An adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism. The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other.
