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Definition: ACQUIESCED |
ACQUIESCEDImperative & past participle1. Of Acquiesce |
Date "ACQUIESCED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: ACQUIESCED |
| Etymologies containing "ACQUIESCED": Acquiesce. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | The people therefore, finding reason to be satisfied with these princes, whenever they acted without, or contrary to the letter of the law, acquiesced in what they did, and, without the least complaint, let them enlarge their prerogative as they pleased, judging rightly, that they did nothing herein to the prejudice of their laws, since they acted conformable to the foundation and end of all laws, the public good. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | After 1813, he acquiesced in, or applauded all the hostile manifestations. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Pakistan | Approximately 85 percent of justices acquiesced, but a handful of justices were not invited to take the oath and were forcibly retired. (references) |
France | Its senior leaders acquiesced in the plunder of French resources, as well as the sending of French forced labor to Germany; in doing so, they claimed they hoped to preserve at least some small amount of French sovereignty. (references) | |
Niger | The Saibou regime acquiesced to these demands by the end of 1990. New political parties and civic associations sprang up, and a National Conference was convened in July 1991 to prepare the way for the adoption of a new constitution and the holding of free and fair elections. (references) | |
Minorities | Mexico | As a result, these leaders sometimes acquiesced in, or actually ordered, the harassment or expulsion of individuals belonging primarily, but not exclusively, to Protestant evangelical groups. (references) |
Political Economy | Cambodia | Police acquiesced in or failed to stop lethal violence by citizens against criminal suspects; the Government rarely investigated such killings, and impunity remained a problem. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | How the public debt is to be paid or specie payments resumed is not so important as that a plan should be adopted and acquiesced in. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | The exercise of political franchises by those of this race who are intelligent and well to do will be acquiesced in, and the right to vote will be withheld only from the ignorant and irresponsible of both races. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "ACQUIESCED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 59.26% of the time. "ACQUIESCED" is used about 54 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 (past tense) | 59.26% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 40.74% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
acquiesced | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ACQUIESCED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 默认 (Acquiesce, Acquiescence, Acquiescing, Defaulted, Defaulting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hingenommen (put up with), duldete (connived, tolerated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acquiesceday aquiescido. (various references) conformado (conformed, shaped). (various references) покірний (acquiescent, benign, duteous, lamblike, meek, obedient, obediential, obeisant, prideless, resigned, submissive, tame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ACQUIESCED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acquasac, acqueisced, acquiece, acquiecse, acquience, acquiensce, acquiesc, acquiese, acquieseced, acquiesed, acquiesee, acquiesse, acquisce, acquisced, aquiesce, aquiesced, ascquiesce, asquiesce. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ACQUIESCED" (pronounced a'kwēe"st) |
| 3 | -e" s t | abreast, addressed, arrest, assessed, attest, behest, bequest, best, blessed, blest, breast, Celeste, chest, coalesced, compressed, confessed, congest, crest, depressed, detest, digest, digressed, dispossessed, distressed, divest, dressed, expressed, fessed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, impressed, infest, ingest, invest, jest, lest, messed, molest, nest, northwest, obsessed, oppressed, pest, possessed, pressed, Prest, professed, progressed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, repressed, request, rest, retest, southwest, stressed, suggest, suppressed, test, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, vest, West, wrest, zest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-i-q-s-u" | |
-1 letter: acquiesce. | |
-2 letters: caciques, caudices. | |
-3 letters: accedes, accused, cacique, caducei, caiques, casqued, succeed. | |
-4 letters: accede, accuse, adieus, caique, caseic, casque, caused, ceased, deices, deuces, educes, equids, sacque, sauced, seduce, sicced. | |
-5 letters: acids, adieu, aedes, aides, asdic, aside, cades, cadis, caids, cased, cause, cease, cedes, cedis, cusec, daces, deice, deuce, dices, duces, eased, educe, equid, ideas, qaids, quads, quais, quasi, quids, saice, sauce, scudi, squad, squid, suede. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 43 51 55 49 45 53 43 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. --.- ..- .. . ... -.-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000011 01010001 01010101 01001001 01000101 01010011 01000011 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A C Q U I E S C E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0043 0051 0055 0049 0045 0053 0043 0045 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35375155433953373938 |
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