Vocabulary Word
Word: cede
Definition: yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession
Definition: yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession
Sentences Containing 'cede'
Being now a member of both sets of trustees, that for the building and that for the Academy, I had a good opportunity of negotiating with both, and brought them finally to an agreement, by which the trustees for the building were to cede it to those of the academy, the latter undertaking to discharge the debt, to keep for ever open in the building a large hall for occasional preachers, according to the original intention, and maintain a free school for the instruction of poor children.
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