accepted, ppl. a.
(ækˈsɛptɪd)
[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. |
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▸ accepted mason n. a person who has been accepted into a society of Freemasons (see Freemason n. 2).
| [1630Accts. Bk. in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (1896) 9 32 Pd in goeing abroad & att a meeteing att the hall about ye Masons yt were to bee accepted.] 1663Inventory in Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (1896) 9 38 The names of the *Accepted Masons in a faire enclosed frame with a lock and key. 1786 W. Winstanley Old Poor Robin 46, I neither mention the Society of Antiquarians; the ancient and honourable Brotherhood of Accepted Masons, nor any other Society existing. 1832J. Q. Adams Let. 6 Sept. in Lett. Masonic Inst. (1847) 82 There are thus, according to the understanding of the Rhode Island Masons, and to yours, three distinct classes of secrets, to which every accepted Mason was bound. 1988 D. Stevenson Origins Freemasonry ix. 221 His skills as a sculptor had earned him a knighthood just a few days before he became an accepted mason. |