Word Direct Answers

What does "accept" mean?

Accept: To receive with favor; to approve. The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice. Ps. xx.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Peradventure he will accept of me. Gen. xxxii.
  2. 3.3. To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
  3. 4.To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted 5. (Com.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier.
  4. 5.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.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not been. -- To accept the person (Eccl.), to show favoritism. "God accepteth no man's person." Gal. ii.
  5. 6.See Receive.
  6. 7.Accepted. [Obs.] Shak.

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