Accept
[ə'ksept] or [ə'ksɛpt]
Definition
(verb.) tolerate or accommodate oneself to; 'I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions'; 'I swallowed the insult'; 'She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies'.
(verb.) consider or hold as true; 'I cannot accept the dogma of this church'; 'accept an argument'.
(verb.) be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; 'The cow accepted the bull'.
(verb.) react favorably to; consider right and proper; 'People did not accept atonal music at that time'; 'We accept the idea of universal health care'.
(verb.) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; 'I cannot accept your invitation'; 'I go for this resolution'.
(verb.) receive (a report) officially, as from a committee.
(verb.) receive willingly something given or offered; 'The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter'; 'I won't have this dog in my house!'; 'Please accept my present'.
(verb.) admit into a group or community; 'accept students for graduate study'; 'We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member'.
(verb.) be designed to hold or take; 'This surface will not take the dye'.
Editor: Thea--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
(v. t.) To receive with favor; to approve.
(v. t.) To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
(v. t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
(v. t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
(v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]
(a.) Accepted.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Take (what is offered), RECEIVE.[2]. Admit, assent to, agree to, accede to, acquiesce in.[3]. Estimate, regard, value.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Welcome, hail, admit, recognize, avow, acknowledge, take, accede_to, receive,assent_to
ANT:Refuse, decline, reject, disown, disavow, ignore, repudiate
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Definition
v.t. to receive: to agree to: to promise to pay: (B.) to receive with favour.—adj. Acceptable (ak-sept′a-bl or ak′sept-a-bl) to be accepted: pleasing: agreeable.—ns. Accept′ableness Acceptabil′ity quality of being acceptable.—adv. Accept′ably.—ns. Accept′ance a favourable reception: an agreeing to terms: an accepted bill; Accept′ancy willingness to receive; Accept′ant one who accepts—also adj.; Acceptā′tion a kind reception: the received meaning of a word; Accept′er Accept′or one who accepts.
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Examples
- Instead she insisted that he accept, and, indeed, take her with him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Then she said, with a slight touch of irritation: I don't care to accept a portrait from Paul Morpeth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Men find themselves a part of Merry England or Holy Russia; they grow up into these devotions; they accept them as a part of their nature. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And had I had an idea of it, nothing should have induced me to accept the necklace. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I thank you, and accept your generous offer. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Yes; and we accept his authority. Plato. The Republic.
- We should accept our own lot, whatever it be, and try to render happy that of others. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They accepted the service with alacrity. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Once the grotesqueness of the situation accepted, she had seen at a glance that it was the safest in which Dorset could find himself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Mr. Bennet accepted the challenge, observing that he acted very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I should have been fond enough of you even to go that length, and you would have accepted my invitation--you would, sir, twenty years ago! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Lieutenant Grant offered his services, which were accepted. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We all accepted his invitation on account of his party. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He accepted his punishment with the toughest stoicism. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And at Miss Halcombe's service, if she will honour me by accepting all the assistance I can offer her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Butthat he should talk of encouragement, should consider her as aware of his views, accepting his attentions, meaning (in short), to marry him! Jane Austen. Emma.
- The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the dange r to progress of accepting an unverified assumption justify the demand for demonstrative e vidence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The other lion was the fact that they were poor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of accepting favors which they could not return. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Accepting your illustration, surely we have one unquestionable virtue in England which is wanting in China. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I should hold myself guilty of greater impropriety in accepting a horse from my brother, than from Willoughby. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But, my dear sister, can I be happy, even supposing the best, in accepting a man whose sisters and friends are all wishing him to marry elsewhere? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Of course if a woman accepts the wrong man, she must take the consequences, and one who does it twice over deserves her fate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I may not deny what thou hast challenged, said the Grand Master, provided the maiden accepts thee as her champion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And so I am not to be surprized that Jane Fairfax accepts her civilities and consents to be with her. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It accepts monarchy where it finds it, but it is not necessarily a monarchist movement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Does your qualification lie in the superior knowledge of men which accepts, courts, and puffs this man? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- One accepts, for the most part, the studies of the existing course and then assigns values to them as a sufficient reason for their being taught. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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