ppl. a. [f. ACCEPT v. + -ED.]
1. Received as offered; well-received; approved.
1493. Petronylla, 26. She was acceptyd so in the lordys sight To be noumbryd one of the maydyns fyue Afore Jhesu that bare their laumpys light.
1611. Bible, 1 Sam. xviii. 5. And he [David] was accepted in the sight of all the people.
1814. Southey, Roderick, VII. Wks. IX. 73. The royal Goth Had offer’d his accepted sacrifice.
1879. Tourgee, Fool’s Errand, xxii. 129. Ideas at variance with the accepted creed.
† 2. Hence, satisfactory, acceptable. Obs.
a. 1500. Songs on Costume (1849), 54. Humylyté … Most accepted was onto the Deyté.
1611. Bible, 2 Cor. vi. 2. Beholde, now is the accepted time.
1677. Hale, Contempl., II. 49. And surely, the first fruits of our Lives … are best accepted to him.
