accede

First attested in the early 15th century. From Middle English acceden, from Latin accēdō (“approach, accede”), formed from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”) (English cede). Compare French accéder. Unrelated to ascend, aside from the common ad prefix.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əkˈsiːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æk.ˈsid/

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• Rhymes: -id

accede (third-person singular simple present accedes, present participle acceding, simple past and past participle acceded)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward. [15th-19th c.]
2. (intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of. [from 15th c.]
3. (intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. [from 16th c.]
4. (intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position). [from 18th c.]
   • 2002, Colin Jones, 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.

5. (intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

(to agree, to come to an office, to become a party to): Use with the word to afterwards ie. accede to.

• (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, (obsolete) comprobate, (obsolete) astipulate

• (to join a group): leave, secede, split off

• accedence
• acceder

• accede in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• acceed

accede

1. third-person singular present indicative of accedere

• ecceda

accēde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of accēdō

accede

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of acceder.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of acceder.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of acceder.