ACCEDENCE Synonyms

• (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed

• (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy

• a degree in a continuum of size or quantity

• established customary state (especially of society)

• logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements

• a condition of regular or proper arrangement

• a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

• a commercial document used to request someone to supply something in return for payment and providing specifications and quantities

• a formal association of people with similar interests

• a body of rules followed by an assembly

• a group of person living under a religious rule

• (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families

• a request for something to be made, supplied, or served

• (architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans

• the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement

• give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority

• make a request for something

• issue commands or orders for

• bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

• bring order to or into

• place in a certain order

• appoint to a clerical posts

• arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events

• assign a rank or rating to

• status established in order of importance or urgency

• preceding in time

• the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)

• high status importance owing to marked superiority

• a strong liking

• a predisposition in favor of something

• the right or chance to choose

• grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties)

• the state of being first in importance

• status established in order of importance or urgency

• preceding in time

• a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another

• relative status

• the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)

• position in a social hierarchy

• the body of members of an organization or group

• very fertile; producing profuse growth

• very offensive in smell or taste

• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

• complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers

• growing profusely

• take or have a position relative to others

• assign a rank or rating to

• take precedence or surpass others in rank

• the quality of being superior

• the quality of being at a competitive advantage

• displaying a sense of being better than others

• the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits

• a numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed

• the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

• the amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else

• relative darkness or lightness of a color

• (music) the relative duration of a musical note

• an ideal accepted by some individual or group

• fix or determine the value of; assign a value to

• hold dear

• regard highly; think much of

• evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

• estimate the value of