First attested in the early 15th century. FromMiddle Englishacceden, fromLatinaccēdō(“approach, accede”), formed fromad(“to, toward, at”) +cēdō(“move, yield”) (Englishcede). CompareFrenchaccéder. Unrelated toascend, aside from the commonad prefix.
But in 1874 the editors of Scribner’s Monthly requested me to publish a popular account of the Colorado exploration in that journal. To this Iacceded and prepared four short articles, which were elaborately illustrated from photographs in my possession.
2007 November 18, Leslie Feinberg, “'Big lie' and breakup of Yugoslavia”, inWorkers World[1]:
Some of the countries of Eastern Europe had alreadyacceded to all the privatization and austerity measures drawn up by imperialist bankers. The Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia was the last of the Eastern European workers' states trying to hold on to what was left of its planned, socialized framework of production and its collective ownership.
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