Accedes

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To agree to or accept a proposal, request, or demand ; to take on an official role or position, typically after someone else has left
2. To give approval or yield to a wish or claim ; to succeed someone in an office or authority, especially a throne or position
3. To comply with or accept a condition or requirement ; to rise to a rank or position by succeeding to it

Etymology: Latin "accēdere" literally meant "to move toward," and its partner "cēdere" meant "to go, move, yield" — the same root that gives English "cede," meaning to surrender territory or a right. Put together, the Latin verb carried a physical sense of approaching a place before it took on the sense of giving way to someone else's claim. English borrowed the word in the early 15th century, first through Middle English "acceden." Its two senses developed in parallel from that Latin core: to agree or give assent to a proposal, and to come to a position, especially by succeeding a predecessor on a throne or in an office. Both senses share the idea of arriving at, or yielding to, something already in place. Despite looking like "ascend," the word is unrelated to it. The two share only the prefix "ad-," meaning "to" or "toward," which English took in countless verbs, while the second half of "accede" comes from a different Latin root entirely.

Synonyms: agrees, consents, complies

Antonyms: disagrees, refuses, declines