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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To give one's consent, often at the insistence of another; concede. See Synonyms at assent.
  2. v. To arrive at or come into an office or dignity: accede to the throne.
  3. v. To become a party to an agreement or treaty.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To come, as into union or possession; become adjoined or entitled; attain by approach or succession: now used chiefly of attainment to a possession, office, or dignity: as, he acceded to the estate on his majority; the house of Hanover acceded to the English throne in 1714.
  2. To come by assent or agreement; give adhesion; yield; give in: as, to acccdc to one's terms or request.
  3. Synonyms To succeed, come (to), attain.
  4. To agree, assent, yield, consent, comply.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.
  2. v. To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.
  3. v. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. to agree or express agreement
  2. v. take on duties or office
  3. v. yield to another's wish or opinion

Etymologies

  1. Middle English acceden, to come near, from Latin accēdere, to go near : ad-, ad- + cēdere, to go; see ked- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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