Your father, I suppose, accosts you thus.
"The Comedies of Terence"
Publius Terentius Afer
Seeing the knight overcome by his grief, and on the point of fainting, the poet accosts him, and courteously demands his pardon for the intrusion.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
That man will be sick before the tenth man accosts him.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter