To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice.
To admit to a place or a group.
The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
I accept the notion that Christ lived.
Accepted.
Pass our accept and peremptory answer.
First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin acceptō, acceptāre (“receive”), frequentative of accipiō, formed from ad- + capiō (“t...
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