ACCEDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accede mean? 

• ACCEDE (verb)
  The verb ACCEDE has 3 senses:

1. yield to another's wish or opinion

2. take on duties or office

3. to agree or express agreement

  Familiarity information: ACCEDE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCEDE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they accede    ... he / she / it accedes   
Past simple: acceded   
Past participle: acceded   
-ing form: acceding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Yield to another's wish or opinion

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

accede; bow; defer; give in; submit

Context example:

The government bowed to the military pressure

Hypernyms (to "accede" is one way to...):

buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield (consent reluctantly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s to somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Take on duties or office

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

accede; enter

Context example:

accede to the throne

Hypernyms (to "accede" is one way to...):

take office (assume an office, duty, or title)

come after; follow; succeed (be the successor (of))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accede"):

ascend (become king or queen)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

accession (the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne))

Sense 3

Meaning:

To agree or express agreement

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

accede; acquiesce; assent

Context example:

The Maestro assented to the request for an encore

Hypernyms (to "accede" is one way to...):

agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accede"):

connive (encourage or assent to illegally or criminally)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

accession (agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly))

 Context examples 

Therefore we are inclined so far to accede to Mr. Copperfield's proposal, as to admit his visits here.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the event of your acceding to my request it is probable that I shall have to narrate them to you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I rather wished, than believed him to be sincere; but, at any rate, was perfectly ready to accede to his proposal.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Disappointed in the expectation of a customer, she coolly acceded to my request.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I acceded with pleasure to this proposition: I was fond of exercise, and Clerval had always been my favourite companion in the ramble of this nature that I had taken among the scenes of my native country.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This was so very well understood between them, that Emma could not but feel some surprise, and a little displeasure, on hearing from Mr. Weston that he had been proposing to Mrs. Elton, as her brother and sister had failed her, that the two parties should unite, and go together; and that as Mrs. Elton had very readily acceded to it, so it was to be, if she had no objection.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The first, at least, of these favours Fanny would rather not have been asked; but it was impossible for her to refuse the correspondence; it was impossible for her even not to accede to it more readily than her own judgment authorised.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I acceded to this the more readily, because I now reproached myself with having treated her former letter rather lightly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This was one point, with regard to Lydia, at least, which was now to be settled, and Mr. Bennet could have no hesitation in acceding to the proposal before him.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I begged him to do me the favour of presiding; and my request being seconded by the other boys who were in that room, he acceded to it, and sat upon my pillow, handing round the viands—with perfect fairness, I must say—and dispensing the currant wine in a little glass without a foot, which was his own property.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)