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To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty. The people must cede to the government some of their natural rights. Jay.

To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede. [Obs.] T. Gale.

The act of acceding.

One who accedes.

To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass. Sir M. Hale.

The act or state of going before in time; precedence. H. Spenser.

The state or condition of being antecedent; priority. Fothherby.

Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.

Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as. to concede the point in question. Boyle.

To withdraw. [Obs.] Fuller.

Removing; departing. Ash.

To yield or give up; to depart. [Obs.] I dare not discede from my copy a tittle. Fuller.

A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. [R.] Donne.

An archdeacon. [Obs.]

Excess. [R.]

To pass between; to intervene. [Obs.] He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived. Sir M. Hale.

The act of interceding; intercession; intervention. [R.] Bp. Reynolds.

Passing between; mediating; pleading. [R.] -- In`ter*ced"ent*ly, adv.

One who intercedes; an intercessor; a mediator. Johnson.