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Accede
Intransitive Verb
Imperfect and past participle: Acceded
Present participle: Acceding
Etymology
Latin accedere to approach, accede; ad + cedere to move, yield: compare French accéder . See cede
- (Obsolete): To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede - T. Gale
- To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.
- Quotations
- Edward IV., who had acceded to the throne in the year 1461. - T. Warton
- If Frederick had acceded to the supreme power - Morley
- Quotations
- To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request.
- Quotations
- The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded - Chesterfield
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Synonyms
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