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acceding
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accede \Ac*cede"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Acceded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Acceding .] [L. accedere to approach, accede; ad + cedere to move, yield: cf. F. acc['e]dere. See Cede .] To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede . [Obs.] --T. Gale. To enter ...
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vb. (present participle of accede English)
Usage examples of acceding.
Very little careful examination would have sufficed to find, in the second section of the very first article of the Constitution, the names of every one of the thirteen then existent States distinctly mentioned, with the number of representatives to which each would be entitled, in case of acceding to the Constitution, until a census of their population could be taken.
If, in adopting the Constitution, nothing was done but acceding to a compact, nothing would seem necessary, in order to break it up, but to secede from the same compact.
Constitution, which, it is submitted, was merely the power to amend the delegated grants, and these were obtained by the separate and independent action of each State acceding to the Union.
The clergy may, it is true, have shown wisdom in acceding to any terms of restoration.
This was a subterfuge, by the aid of which he intended to open new negotiations respecting the form and conditions of the Regency of his son, in case of the Allied sovereigns acceding to that proposition.
But Mary was shy of acceding to such invitations and at last frankly told her friend Patience, that she would not again break bread in Greshamsbury in any house in which she was not thought fit to meet the other guests who habitually resorted there.
To the painter I wrote that I felt that I had deserved the shameful insult he had given me by my great mistake in acceding to his request to honour him by staying in his house.
The Zondarians quickly saw the wisdom in acceding to our gentle guidance, and put themselves under Thallonian rule.