Intercede vs Accede - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between intercede and accede

is that intercede is while accede is .

(interced)

To plead on someone else's behalf.

To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.

* Milton

I to the lords will intercede , not doubting their favourable ear.

To pass between; to intervene.

* Sir M. Hale

He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived.

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(acced)

(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:

Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.

To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

Use with the word to afterwards ie. accede to .

* agree, acquiesce, assent, comply, concur, consent, concede

* accedence

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