单词 | cede |
释义 | cedev.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. 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). < v.1633 |
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