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cede, v.|siːd|
Also 7 ced.
[a. F. céde-r (16th c. in Littré), ad. L. cēdĕre to give way, yield, retreat. (? or directly from L.)]
†1. intr. To give way, give place, yield to.
1633W. Struther True Happiness 42 It is a great gift of God to seek God: It is second to no gift, because it is the first; It succeedeth no grace, which hath no precedent, and cedeth to none that hath the perfection of all. 1673O. Walker Education 266 In controversies let the master sometimes cede to his servant. c1675Sc. Pasquils (1868) 184 He only ceds to him [his father] in pedantrie. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 264 [Let] private concerns always cede to the common good.
†2. Of possessions: To pass over to. Obs.
1756Shenstone Ruin'd Abbey Wks. 1764 I. 317 This fair domain Had well nigh ceded to the slothful hands Of monks libidinous.
3. trans. To give up, grant; to yield, surrender: esp. to give up a portion of territory.
1754A. Drummond Trav. 256 (T.) That honour was entirely ceded to the Parthian royal race. 1787T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 316 This copy has been ceded to me as a favor. 1798Wellington in Gurw. Disp. I. 8 The provinces which Ld. Cornwallis had compelled him to cede to the Company. 1823J. Marshall Const. Opin. (1839) 269 His most Christian Majesty ceded to the Queen of Great Britain, all Nova Scotia, etc.
Hence ˈceded ppl. a.
1844Wilson Brit. India II. ii. xii. 545 The Ceded and Conquered provinces. 1886Yule Anglo-Ind. Gloss., Ceded Districts, a name applied familiarly at the beginning of this century to the territory south of the Tungabhadra river, which was ceded to the Company by the Nizam in 1800, after the defeat and death of Tippoo Sultan. |