Accept Definition
ăk-sĕpt
accepted, accepting, accepts
verb
accepted, accepting, accepts
To answer affirmatively.
Accept an invitation.
American Heritage
To take (what is offered or given); receive, esp. willingly.
Webster's New World
To accept something offered.
Webster's New World
To agree to take (a duty or responsibility).
American Heritage
To receive favorably; approve.
To accept a theory.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
(obsolete) Accepted.
Wiktionary
Origin of Accept
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From Middle English accepten, from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin accipiō (“receive”), frequentative of accipere, formed from ad- + capiō (“to take”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English accepten from Latin acceptāre frequentative of accipere to receive ad- ad- capere to take kap- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
First attested about 1380.
From Wiktionary
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