accede
IPA: æksˈid
verb
- (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
- (intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
- (intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
- (intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
- (intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
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Examples of "accede" in Sentences
- They acceded to the invitation.
- The men acceded to the command.
- I would accede to the investigation.
- The officers acceded to the new order.
- The accessory accedes to the principal.
- People acceded to the new rule of the game.
- They were not really up to accede to the new command.
- The Nizam, refused to accede his state to the Union of India.
- I of course will accede to the wishes of the community on that issue.
- These untimely deaths opened the way for Suzaku to accede to the throne.
- To accede is not merely to give in but rather to give in while drawing near; one may accede not only to an argument but to a throne.
- "accede," and the like -- were the terms in familiar use by the authors of the Constitution and their associates with reference to that instrument and its ratification.
- This in no way absolves those who would pervert that power for personal gain, nor does it excuse the outright blackmail-type pressures that have been brought to bear upon many of us to accede.
- This word "accede," not found either in the Constitution itself, or in the ratification of it by any one of the States, has been chosen for use here, doubtless, not without a well-considered purpose.
- For more than 20 years, Turkey sought to accede to the European Union; but last year the country seemed to change directions without dropping its EU bid by joining the Arab Parliament as an observer.
- And with Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia, as well as retired Justice John Paul Stevens, already waving away questions about their colleague's ethics, it is not likely that the chief justice or the Judicial Conference will accede to Slaughter's request.
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- Constitution, but who had presided over the Convention that drew it up -- in letters written soon after the adjournment of that body to friends in various States, referred to the Constitution as a _compact_ or treaty, and repeatedly uses the terms "accede" and "accession," and once the term "secession."