Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Accede

Accede ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb

[Latin accedere to approach, accede; ad + cedere to move, yield: compare French accédere. See Cede.]

1.
To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede. [Obsolete] — 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