accessary vs peripheral

accessary

adj
  • Accompanying as a subordinate; additional; accessory; especially, uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See accessory. 

noun
  • Someone who accedes to some act, now especially a crime; one who contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense. 

peripheral

adj
  • Auxiliary. 

  • Related to or located in the peripheral nervous system. 

  • Unimportant. 

  • Beside the point. 

  • On the periphery or boundary. 

noun
  • Peripheral vision. 

  • A peripheral device. 

How often have the words accessary and peripheral occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )