Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Widely encountered, used, or recognized: an accepted treatment for pneumonia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Acceptable; chosen; appointed.
- In com., received or acknowledged as binding: often abbreviated to a. or A. See acceptance, 1 .
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of accept.
- adj. Generally approved, believed, or recognized.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. generally approved or compelling recognition
Etymologies
- accept + -ed (Wiktionary)
Examples
“European dress" is the term accepted to imply the costume of man and woman which is entirely cosmopolitan, decrying continuity of types (of costume) and thoroughly plastic in the hands of fashion.”
“A rule was established under which every Manchu high official, when memorializing the throne, was to speak of himself to the Emperor as "your Majesty's slave," whereas the term accepted from every Chinese high official was simply”
“The expression “the right state” was a term accepted in the political writings of the fourth century.”
“[FN#128] Andalusian = Spanish, the Vandal-land, a term accepted by the Moslem invader.”
“She is described by her admirers as a 'philosopher' but this is not a term accepted by many in the philosophical community.”
“[[Objectivism]], which believes admirers as 'a philosopher 'but this is not a term accepted by many in the booksc ertainly advance a' philosophy 'of life, there is,”
“One claim is, "She is described by her admirers as 'a philosopher 'but this is not a term accepted by many in the philosophical community.”
“Whatever Obama may lack in "accepted" experience, he more than makes up for in judgement, inspirational initiative, and vision.”
“The government needed to find a way to stop these coins being in accepted as legal tender.”
“I do find having a place to be vulnerable/messy/imperfect and still be accepted is critical.”
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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Masonry
Due to my absolute ignorance of masonry and masonic terms, this list is shamelessly copied from this masonic dictionary.
Feel free to add words (as soon as I complete my transcription).abif, accepted, accord, active member, adjournment, admonish, adoration, adversity, affiliate, affirmation, lawful age, aid of deity and 143 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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