Succeed vs Accede - What's the difference?
accede | succeed |
(archaic) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 32:
To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.
(obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* 1919 ,
To support; to prosper; to promote.
* Dryden
To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.
# To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
To go under cover.
As verbs the difference between accede and succeed
is that accede is to approach; to arrive, to come forward while succeed is to follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.accede
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Verb
(acced)- Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.
Usage notes
Use with the word to afterwards ie. accede to .Synonyms
* agree, acquiesce, assent, comply, concur, consent, concedeDerived terms
* accedenceReferences
* ----succeed
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Alternative forms
* succede (dated)Verb
(en verb)- The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.
- Autumn succeeds summer.
- So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king.
- Destructive effects succeeded the curse.
- Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.
- Succeed my wish and second my design.
