acceded
simple past tense and past participle of accede
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*cede", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Acceded; p. pr. & vb. n. Acceding.] Etym: [L. accedere to approach, accede; ad + cedere to move, yield: cf. F. accédere. See Cede.]
1. To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede. [Obs.] T. Gale.
2. To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain. Edward IV., who had acceded to the throne in the year 1461. T. Warton. If Frederick had acceded to the supreme power. Morley.
3. To become a party by associating one's self with others; to give one's adhesion. Hence, to agree or assent to a proposal or a view; as, he acceded to my request. The treaty of Hanover in 1725 . . . to which the Dutch afterwards acceded. Chesterfield.
Syn.
– To agree; assent; consent; comply; acquiesce; concur.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 June 2025
(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
