Accept

1. a. Accepted.
2. v. t. To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; — often followed by of.
3. v. t. To receive with favor; to approve.
4. v. t. To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.
5. v. t. To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?
6. v. t. To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange.
7. v. t. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.]

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.