Accept

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Accepted.

II. Accept ·vt To receive with favor; to Approve.

III. Accept ·vt To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.

IV. Accept ·vt To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

V. Accept ·vt To take by the mind; to Understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?.

VI. Accept ·vt To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift;

— often followed by of.

VII. Accept ·vt In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.].