accedern.

1730 Hist. Reg. No. 60. 245 If the Number of Acceders, together with the Votes for him, come up to the two Thirds and one over, the Business is done.

1768 London Mag. Oct. 462/1 Moreover, the ministers of the three powers gave each the new acceder a certified copy of the ratifications of the preliminaries, to confirm to him that the act he acceded to was valid and in true form.

1835 T. De Quincey in Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 544/2 He found an unresisting acceder to his doctrines in a public having no previous opinion upon the subject.

a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) vii. 464 The original members of the academy objected to be swamped by a gush of so many acceders all at once.

1899 Lancet 7 Jan. 32/1 The absence of the headmasters of the seven schools and of other schools as important daunted more than one of the original acceders to the Conference.

1975 Business Hist. Rev. 49 58 The directors had receded to the role of pliant acceders, and the shareholders had been reduced to virtual impotency.

2003 N. Yokoi Japan's Postwar Econ. Recovery vi. 99 Board of Trade..proposed an amendment to Article 35 whereby a contracting party could invite an acceder into the GATT but base its trade relations on a separate bilateral treaty.