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单词 cede
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cedev.

Brit. /siːd/, U.S. /sid/
Forms: Also 1600s ced.
Etymology: < French céde-r (16th cent. in Littré), < Latin cēdĕre to give way, yield, retreat. (? or directly < Latin.)
1. intransitive. To give way, give place, yield to.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > submission > submit to [verb (transitive)]
undergangc1000
undergoc1175
abidec1275
bidec1275
shootc1275
undergoc1315
submit1397
incline?a1400
vail1610
cede1633
defer1686
the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > take the place of or replace [verb (intransitive)] > be replaced by
give placec1384
yield1604
cede1633
decede1655
give way1713
1633 W. Struther True Happines 42 It is a great gift of God to seek God: It is second to no gift, because it is the first; It succeedeth no grace, which hath no precedent, and cedeth to none that hath the perfection of all.
1672 O. Walker Of Educ. ii. v. 266 In controversies, let the Master sometimes cede to his Servant.
c1675 Sc. Pasquils (1868) 184 He only ceds to him [his father] in pedantrie.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 264 [Let] private concerns always cede to the common good.
2. Of possessions: To pass over to. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > transfer of property > be transferred [verb (intransitive)]
goOE
pass1416
devolvea1575
settle1629
to go overa1645
cede1756
shift1844
1756 W. Shenstone Ruin'd Abbey in Wks. (1764) I. 317 This fair domain Had well nigh ceded to the slothful hands Of monks libidinous.
3. transitive. To give up, grant; to yield, surrender: esp. to give up a portion of territory.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > hand over to another > hand over territory
cede1754
secede1946
1754 A. Drummond Travels xiii. 256 That honour was entirely ceded to the Paphian royal race.
1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 316 This copy has been ceded to me as a favor.
1798 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 8 The provinces which Ld. Cornwallis had compelled him to cede to the Company.
1823 J. Marshall Writings upon Federal Constit. (1839) 269 His most Christian Majesty ceded to the Queen of Great Britain, all Nova Scotia, etc.

Derivatives

ˈceded adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > relinquishing > [adjective] > handing over or giving up to another > of territory
ceded1846
1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xii. 545 The Ceded and Conquered provinces.
1886 H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson Ceded Districts, a name applied familiarly at the beginning of this century to the territory south of the Tungabhadra river, which was ceded to the Company by the Nizam in 1800, after the defeat and death of Tippoo Sultan.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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