accede
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To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.
To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.
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.
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Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.
Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?
[T]ake it to be the bounden duty of the Judge to lay down the law as it strikes him, and that of the jury to accede to it, unless they have superior knowledge on the subject.
It is inconceivable that a Roman Catholic president would not be under extreme pressure by the hierarchy of his church to accede to its policies with respect to foreign relations in matters, including representation to the Vatican.
When sweethearts want each other, the parents must inevitably accede.
The Maestro assented to the request for an encore