Pronunciation Verb
accede (accedes, present participle acceding; past and past participle acceded)
- (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward. [15th-19th c.]
- (intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position). [from 18th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 32:
- Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 32:
- (intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
- (to join a group) band together, enroll
- (agree to a proposal or a view) come around, concede; See also Thesaurus:accede
- agree, acquiesce, assent, comply, concur, consent, qual obsolete comprobate, qual obsolete astipulate
- German: beitreten, anschließen (reflexive)
- Russian: присоединя́ться
- German: stattgeben, zustimmen, einwilligen, bewilligen
- Portuguese: aceder, consentir
- Russian: соглаша́ться
- Spanish: acceder, consentir
- German: beitreten, Mitglied werden
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