Word Finder - accepted

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To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

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To admit to a place or a group.

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The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.

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To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

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I accept the notion that Christ lived.

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To receive as adequate or satisfactory.

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To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

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I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

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To endure patiently.

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I accept my punishment.

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To agree to pay.

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To receive officially.

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to accept the report of a committee

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To receive something willingly.

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I accept.

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Generally approved, believed, or recognized.

I offered to help and you accepted my offer.

He accepted the platter of food and heaped his plate.

She should have accepted the rabbits.

Carmen accepted the hug and stepped back, startled to silence.

It was an odd mix that warned him she'd not yet accepted her place in his world.

He accepted the blanket with a sour look.

He at once resigned his commission, and without waiting for it to be accepted took leave of absence and went to Moscow.

Nicholas accepted thirty thousand rubles offered him by his brother-in- law Bezukhov to pay off debts he regarded as genuinely due for value received.

She prayed he accepted her apology.

He accepted her offer and thus became Under Sheriff of Ouray County, Colorado.

It was no surprise that Darcie had accepted his proposal.

Heart quickening, she crossed to him and accepted his hand.

I accepted gratefully and asked him if there was any news on the camper.

It acclimated to her and accepted her until it obeyed her thoughts before she thought them.

She accepted the small vial.

She accepted everything I did for her as a matter of course, and refused to be caressed, and there was no way of appealing to her affection or sympathy or childish love of approbation.

She knew that when she accepted the job so any complaint at this point would be out of line.

When we first accepted Mr. Cooms' generous funding, we established this secure connection in case he ever had a need to contact us.

Damian accepted his hand in greeting, looking around.

The men soon accepted Pierre into their family, adopted him, gave him a nickname ("our gentleman"), and made kindly fun of him among themselves.

She has already apologized and I have accepted her apology.

He accepted the bowl of soup and sipped in silence for a few minutes.

He accepted the tin of flapjacks she offered and jerked his head toward her wagon.

The one essential property of matter is its inactivity, vis inertiae (accepted later by Monboddo).

He accepted the Restoration and sat on the commission which drew up the charter.

She accepted the coffee and scowled into the tin cup.

It was one of the many oddities about her father that she'd accepted over the years.

She'd accepted her father, because there was no one else who understood her.

She'd accepted her place in his bed.

More importantly, the underworld accepted his appointment.

Completely free, she relaxed and accepted a glass of champagne from one of the wait staff and waded toward the buffet.

He accepted it with equal caution.

Property of an individual who has abandoned Ottoman nationality without legal authority so to do does not pass to heirs, whether Ottoman or foreign, but devolves to the state if legal authority has been granted the government under which the foreign heirs live must have accepted the protocol above cited.

The armistice, accepted by the Greeks, was refused by Ibrahim, pending instructions from Constantinople, though he consented to keep his ships in the harbour of Navarino.

In August a conference of the four powers assembled at Vienna, but the settlement they proposed, which practically conceded everything demanded by Russia except the claim to the protectorate, though accepted by the tsar, was rejected by the Porte, now fallen into a mood of stubborn resentment at the Russian invasion.

A commission composed of British, French and Russian officials held an inquiry into the events which had occurred, and early in 1895 England, France and Russia entered actively into negotiations with a view to the institution of reforms. The scheme propounded by the three powers encountered great objections from the Porte, but under pressure was accepted in October 1895.

On the 3rd of February 1910 the Porte accepted a Bulgarian proposal for a mixed commission to delimit disputed sections of the Turco-Bulgarian frontier, and in March King Ferdinand visited Constantinople.

Murat boasted that he had ioo,000 men behind him, and on his return Massenbach implored his chief to submit to an unconditional surrender, advice which the prince accepted, though as a fact Murat's horses were completely exhausted and he had no infantry whatever within call.

In cavalry they were weak, for the Russian does not take kindly to equitation and the horses were not equal to the accepted European standard of weight, while the Cossack was only formidable to stragglers and wounded.

Consequently he accepted the portfolio of public instruction and worship in the Sarrien ministry (1906).

Great Britain surrendered its title to the eastern portion by the Treaty of Paris (1783), and after the surrender of Virginia's colourable title had been accepted by Congress in 1784, this eastern part was made a part of the Northwest Territory by the ordinance of 1787, although the British held possession and did some trading there until 1796.

Under Venetian protection, freely accepted in 1401, the inhabitants maintained their municipal independence and commercial prosperity down to the destruction of the Venetian republic in 1797, though on two occasions, in 1500 and 1560, their city was burned by the Turks.

The attempts of Ali Pasha of Iannina to make himself master of the place were thwarted partly by the presence of a French garrison in the citadel and partly by the heroic attitude of the Pargiotes themselves, who were anxious to have their city incorporated with the Ionian Republic. To secure their purpose they in 1814 expelled the French garrison and accepted British protection; but the British Government in 1815 determined to go back to the convention of 1800 by which Parga was to be surrendered to Turkey, though no mosque was to be built or Mussulman to settle within its territory.

Guldberg and P.Waage, which is universally accepted as an accurate representation of the facts.

Shortly before his death Huss had accepted a doctrine preached during his absence by his adherents at Prague, namely that of "utraquism," i.e.

In the scholastic discussions of the 12th century the question came to the front again, for the doctrine as framed by Alcuin was not universally accepted.

They are very tenacious of their independence, but accepted without opposition the establishment of a British protectorate, which, while putting a stop to inter-tribal warfare, slave-raiding and human sacrifices, and exercising control over the working of the laws, left to the people executive and fiscal autonomy.

In 1856 he accepted the direction of the schools of the East, and was thus for the first time brought into contact with the Mahommedan world.

He acquiesced in the purchase of the Suez Canal shares, a measure then considered dangerous by many people, but ultimately most successful; he accepted the Andrassy Note, but declined to accede to the Berlin Memorandum.

The parallax 8.5776" found by Encke was therefore accepted without question, and was employed in the Nautical Almanac from 1834 to 1869.