Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Accept \Ac*cept"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accepted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Accepting}.] [F. accepter, L. acceptare, freq. of
   accipere; ad + capere to take; akin to E. heave.]
   1. To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as,
      to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

            If you accept them, then their worth is great.
                                                  --Shak.

            To accept of ransom for my son.       --Milton.

            She accepted of a treat.              --Addison.

   2. To receive with favor; to approve.

            The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.  --Ps. xx. 3.

            Peradventure he will accept of me.    --Gen. xxxii.
                                                  20.

   3. To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I
      accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

   4. To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these
      words to be accepted?

   5. (Com.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to
      accept a bill of exchange. --Bouvier.

   6. 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.]

   {To accept a bill} (Law), to agree (on the part of the
      drawee) to pay it when due.

   {To accept service} (Law), to agree that a writ or process
      shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not
      been.

   {To accept the person} (Eccl.), to show favoritism. ``God
      accepteth no man's person.'' --Gal. ii. 6.

   Syn: To receive; take; admit. See {Receive}.

Accept \Ac*cept"\, a.
   Accepted. [Obs.] --Shak.

Source : WordNet®

accept
     v 1: consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this
          church"; "accept an argument" [ant: {reject}]
     2: receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl
        who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't
        have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present"
        [syn: {take}, {have}] [ant: {refuse}]
     3: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I
        cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
        [syn: {consent}, {go for}] [ant: {refuse}]
     4: react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did
        not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea
        of universal health care"
     5: admit into a group or community; "accept students for
        graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to
        admit a new member" [syn: {admit}, {take}, {take on}]
     6: take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another
        person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the
        responsibility" [syn: {bear}, {take over}, {assume}]
     7: tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept
        these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the
        insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's
        little idiosyncracies" [syn: {live with}, {swallow}]
     8: be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the
        dye" [syn: {take}]
     9: of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as
        from a committee
     10: make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take
         an opportunity" [syn: {take}]
     11: be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated
         mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

accept
     
         {Berkeley} {Unix} networking {socket}
        library routine to satisfy a connection request from a remote
        {host}.  A specified socket on the local host (which must be
        capable of accepting the connection) is connected to the
        requesting socket on the remote host.  The remote socket's
        socket address is returned.
     
        {Unix manual pages}: accept(2), connect(2).
     
        (1994-11-08)