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1. transitiveTo receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

   Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 20:3

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   The Chinese say, that a little time afterwards she accepted of a treat in one of the neighbouring hills to which Shalum had invited her.

   1714 August 25, Joseph Addison, “The Sequel of the Story of Shalum and Hilpa”, in The Spectator, number 585; republished in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq, volume 4, London: Jacob Tonson, 1721, page 112

   I bid thee banish from thy heart all thought of me, but as one whom the Future cries aloud to thee to avoid. Glyndon, if thou acceptest his homage, will love thee till the tomb closes upon both.

   1842, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter III, in Zanoni. […], volume I, London: Saunders & Otley, […], →OCLC, 2nd book (Art, Love, and Wonder), page 151

2. transitiveTo admit to a place or a group.

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

3. transitiveTo regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

   I accept the notion that Christ lived.

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   I can't accept nothing being done about the problem and your standing idly by.

4. transitiveTo receive as adequate or satisfactory.
5. transitiveTo receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

   I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

6. transitiveTo endure patiently.

   I accept my punishment.

7. transitiveTo acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.

   We need to accept the fact that restaurants are closed due to COVID-19 and that no amount of wishing or screaming will make them reopen any sooner.

8. transitivebusinessTo agree to pay.
9. transitiveTo receive officially.

   to accept the report of a committee

10. intransitiveTo receive something willingly.
11. PhilippinesTo do a service done by an establishment.

    We accept repairs.

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    We accept bookbinding.

comparative more accept · superlative most accept

1. EarlyModernobsoleteAccepted.

   Pass our accept and peremptory answer.

   1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, V-ii

plural accepts

1. computingSomething that is accepted.

   Almost all line segments will be trivial accepts or trivial rejects, so the above covers the vast majority of cases.

   1996, Jim Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner: A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline, page 127

   Antonyms: reject