accept

1. 1

   To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.transitive

   • Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice.
   • 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.
2. 2

   To admit to a place or a group.transitive

   • The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.
3. 3

   To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.transitive

   • I accept the notion that Christ lived.
   • I can't accept nothing being done about the problem and your standing idly by.
4. 4

   To receive as adequate or satisfactory.transitive

5. 5

   To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.transitive

   • I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
6. 6

   To endure patiently.transitive

   • I accept my punishment.
7. 7

   To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.transitive

   • 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. 8

   To agree to pay.transitive

9. 9

   To receive officially.transitive

   • to accept the report of a committee
10. 10

    To receive something willingly.intransitive

ant. reject · decline

1. 1

   Accepted.EarlyModernobsolete

   • Pass our accept and peremptory answer.

1. 1

   Something that is accepted.

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