Acquiesce

Definition: Acquiesce

Acquiesce

Verb

1. To agree or express agreement: "Yes, the Maestro assented.".

Date "acquiesce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Acquiesce \Ac`qui*esce"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Acquiesced; present participle verb or noun Acquiescing] [Latin expression acquiescere; ad quiescere to be quiet, from quies rest: compare to the French expression acquiescer. See Quiet.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Acquiesce

Synonyms: accede (v), assent (v). (additional references)

Antonym: dissent (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assent	Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.
Consent	Verb: consent; assent; yield assent, admit, allow, concede, grant, yield; come round, come over; give into, acknowledge, agnize, give consent, comply with, acquiesce, agree to, fall in with, accede, accept, embrace an offer, close with, take at one's word, have no objection.
Content	Take up with, take in good part; accept, tolerate; consent; acquiesce, assent; be reconciled to, make one's peace with; get over it; take heart, take comfort; put up with; (bear).
Excitability	Tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby; bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit; (yield); submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach.
Willingness	See fit, think good, think proper; acquiesce; (assent); comply with.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Acquiesce

English words defined with "acquiesce": Acquiesced, Acquiescing, Ad- ♦ To abide by. (references)

Etymologies containing "acquiesce": Complaisant. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Acquiesce" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (consents).

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Then they may appeal, as Jephtha did, to heaven, and repeat their appeal till they have recovered the native right of their ancestors, which was, to have such a legislative over them, as the majority should approve, and freely acquiesce in. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Declaration of Independence	1776	We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The Swiss Federal Council has informed the French Government on May 5, 1919, that after examining the provisions of Article 435 in a like spirit of sincere friendship it has happily reached the conclusion that it was possible to acquiesce in it under the following conditions and reservations: (1) The neutralised zone of Haute-Savoie: (a) It will be understood that as long as the Federal Chambers have not ratified the agreement come to between the two Governments concerning the abrogation of the stipulations in respect of the neutralised zone of Savoy, nothing will be definitively settled, on one side or the other, in regard to this subject. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Having been associated with labor, President Kim had attempted to use his ties with the workforce to garner approval for the reform plan. At first, Kim's past alliance with labor organizations seemed to minimize resistance, but recent actions and statements made from labor representatives demonstrate that unions are not going to acquiesce as easily as the government had hoped. (references)
Human Rights	Dominican Republic	There is some evidence that these assistant prosecutors at times acquiesce in traditional police practices, rather than attempt to raise these practices to constitutional standards. (references)
Women	Costa Rica	An old law permitted a judge to pardon a man accused of statutory rape if the perpetrator intends to marry the victim, she and her family acquiesce, and the National Institute for Children does not object; however, an August 1999 reform to the Penal Code rendered this article void. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	But if the people of the several States think otherwise they will amend the Constitution, and in their decision all ought cheerfully to acquiesce.
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce, they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them, for a minority of their own will secede from them whenever a majority refuses to be controlled by such minority.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Acquiesce" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 82.09% of the time. "Acquiesce" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	82.09%	55	45,713
Lexical Verb (base form)	17.91%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	67	N/A

Expression using "acquiesce": acquiesce in. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "acquiesce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		berus (resign oneself). (various references)

Albanian		pranoj në heshtje. (various references)

Arabic		‏أذعن (bow, capitulate, comply, defer, knuckle under), ‏رضخ. (various references)

Bulgarian		съгласявам се (accede to, agree, assent, buy, comply, concur, consent, grant, jibe, say the word, see, yield), примирявам се (accept, be reconciled, put up with, resign), приемам неохотно, приемам мълчаливо, покорност (amenability, docility, humility, submission). (various references)

Chinese		默认 (Acquiesced, Acquiescence, Acquiescing, Defaulted, Defaulting). (various references)

Czech		souhlasit (accede, agree, approve, assent, consent, endorse, ok, okay, tally), smířit se s (put up with, reconcile with), podvolit se (back down). (various references)

Danish		have tålt brugen af EF-varemærket inden for det område,hvor denne ret er beskyttet (to acquiesce in the use of the Community trade mark in the territory where this right is protected). (various references)

Dutch		stilzwýgend toestemmen, stilzwýgend instemmen, berusten (be deposited, be in the keeping, resign oneself, rest). (various references)

Esperanto		rezignacii (resign oneself). (various references)

Farsi		موافقت کردن (Accede, Admit, Agree, Assent, Comply, Concur, Grant, Jibe, Obey, Okay), تن دردادن (Accede, Acquiescence, Own), تسلیم شدن (Abandon, Capitulate, Defer, Givein, Knuckle, Obey, Quit, Submit, Succumb, Surrender, Vouchsafe), ارام کردن (Allay, Alleviate, Appease, Assuage, Conciliate, Cool, Gentle, Lull, Pacify, Placate, Quiet, Silence, Smooth, Solace, Still), رضایت دادن (Accede, Assent, Consent), راضی شدن (Consent, Supple). (various references)

Finnish		tyytyä (acquiesce in, be satisfied with, content oneself with). (various references)

French		acquiescer, se résigner, consentir (accede). (various references)

German		einwilligen (accede, agree, comply, consent, to acquiesce, to consent). (various references)

Greek		συναίνω (accede, assent, concur, consent), στέργω (consent). (various references)

Hungarian		belemegy (go into, to come to, to go in), beleegyezik (agree, consent, to accede, to acquiesce, to approve of, to consent, to give one's o.k., to o.k.). (various references)

Indonesian		mengizinkan (allow, consent). (various references)

Italian		acconsentire (agree, assent, consent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		黙�" . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		もくじゅう. (various references)

Manx		lhie roish (acquiescence, acquiescent). (various references)

Pig Latin		acquiesceay

Portuguese		aquiescer (admit, afford, allow, assent, comply, consent, permit), sujeição (bondage, calaboose, in obedience to, liability, prison, serfdom, servitude, subdual, subjection, subjugation, submission, subordination, subservience, thraldom, vassalage), concordar com (accede, agree). (various references)

Romanian		aproba (accept, acknowledge, allow, answer with a nod, applaud, approbate, approve, close, countenance, endorse, grant, homologate, pass, ratify, sanctify, sanction, uphold), accepta (abide by, accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, agree, approve, assent, assume, carry down, embrace, grant, hold, honor, honour, postulate, protect, receive, take, take in, take on), consimţi la (agree, assent, consent into). (various references)

Russian		уступать (assent, be inferior to, cede, comply, concede, fall back, give ground, give in, give way to, knuckle under, pass up, rebate, relinquish, remise, stand down, succumb, surrender, yield, yield to), покорность (humility, passivity, submission, submissiveness). (various references)

Scottish		aontaich (agree, consent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prećutno se složiti, prećutna saglasnost. (various references)

Spanish		ceder (alienate, assign, budge, cede, cold flow, concede, creep, dispose of, give, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, make over, part with, relent, relinquish, render up, sign away, sign over, transfer, turn over, waive, yield). (various references)

Swedish		samtycka (agree, assent, consent, go along). (various references)

Turkish		razı olmak (accede, agree, approve, assent, comply, consent, fall with, settle for), karşı çıkmamak, kabul etmek (accede, accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, affiliate, agree, allow, approve, assent, avow oneself, be sold on, certify, consent, enfranchise, enrol, fall in with, Favor, favour, go along with, grant, have, honor, honour, own, receive, recognize, regard as, say yes, settle for, sustain, take, take in, thole, turn thumbs up on, witness). (various references)

Ukranian		мовчки погоджуватися. (various references)

Welsh		cydsynio (accede, assent, consent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	acquiescere, adquiescamus, adquiescas, adquiesce, adquiescens, adquiescent, adquiescentes, adquiescentibus, adquiescere, adquiesceret, adquiesces, adquiescet, adquiescit, adquiescunt, adquieverint, adquieverunt, adquievi, adquievisti, adquievit, adquievitque. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "acquiesce": acquiesced, acquiescence, acquiescences, acquiescent, acquiescently, acquiesces. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Acquiesce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acquasac, acquiece, acquiecse, acquience, acquiensce, acquies, acquiesc, acquiese, acquiesee, acquiess, acquiesse, acquisce, acquise, aquiesce, ascquiesce, asquiesce. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-q-s-u"
	-1 letter: caciques.
	-2 letters: cacique, caiques.
	-3 letters: accuse, caique, caseic, casque, sacque.
	-4 letters: cause, cease, cusec, quais, quasi, saice, sauce.
	-5 letters: aces, asci, case, ceca, cees, cues, ease, ecus, ices, quai, sice.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-i-q-s-u"
	+1 letter: acquiesced, acquiesces.
	+2 letters: acquiescent.
	+3 letters: acquiescence.
	+4 letters: acquiescences, acquiescently.
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