Cede is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CEDE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to yield
• give up (power or territory)
• surrender (territory or legal rights)
• To yield or surrender; to give up; to resign; as, to cede a fortress, a province, or country, to another nation, by treaty.
• give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
• relinquish possession or control over

Words related to CEDE

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How to use CEDE in a sentence

• But after a few crushing defeats, the Communists were compelled to sue for peace, and to cede a large part of their richest territory.
• Selim the Osmanli, when he entered Cairo as a conqueror in 1517, caused the contemporary Abbasid to cede his title, for what it was worth, to him and his successors.
• And doubtless he would cede it to the farm as soon as he should be the master.
• At the mill, too, Gregoire was as yet barely established, and his kingdom was so small that he could not possibly cede half of it.
• From that time forward it became a habit with Beauchene to cede Denis a fresh share every two years.
• The right they cede could be extinguished by a course that treaty provisions justify and authorize.
• Circumstances had now inclined the Chippewa and Ottawa tribes of Indians to cede to the United States a portion of their extensive territory.
• And this territory, even some miles beyond that line, Bulgaria was now compelled to cede to her by the treaty.
• France promised in that case to cede to him the Island of Minorca.
• In point of fact, no one tribe or set of tribes could cede Kentucky or Tennessee, because no one tribe or set of tribes owned either.
• Virginia and Connecticut had offered to cede their claims but under such conditions that it was impossible to close with the offers.
• By fair treaty the Indians had agreed to cede to the whites lands upon which they now refused to allow them to settle.
• By the bribe of a petty Italian principality he persuaded the Bourbon King of Spain to cede Louisiana to the French, at the treaty of San Ildefonso, concluded in October, 1800.
• He had no idea that Napoleon intended to cede it to the United States.
• She offered to cede some territory if Italy should wait until the end of the war.
• Accordingly negotiations were begun, and a promise was given to deliver meat and grain every year and to cede twenty-seven military strongholds.
• When he declined to assume any such responsibility, they actually proceeded to dissolve the Government, and cede all public property forthwith to the Republic of Liberia.
• Her water lines are exceedingly fine, and, in point of elegance, in no wise cede to those of the most renowned yachts.
• In the latter part of the year 1862 the Emperor of Cochin China was forced to cede to France the coveted provinces.
• While matters were in this state, commissioners from Matthias arrived to inform the king that he must cede the crown to his brother and retire into the Tyrol.
• There is much talk of war in the spring, and if Austria will not cede Venetia war must be, even if she should satisfy her other provinces, which she will probably fail to do.
• Those who gave the information asked, and agreed to cede these lands back to the crown, were led into the white tent, where an ample feast awaited them.
• France offered to cede Normandy with Guienne, but both of them loaded with the usual homage and vassalage to the crown.
• Holland was also to equip a fleet for the service of France, and to cede Dutch Brabant, Zealand, and other territories to this insatiable empire.
• Belgium, however, now refused to accede to the arrangement, by resolving not to cede Luxembourg.
• He requires your majesty, further, to cede your whole territory on the left of the Elbe to France, for he regards the Elbe as also the natural frontier of the Prussian kingdom.
• But to compensate you for this loss, he will prevail upon Saxony to cede to you a territory on the right of the Elbe, equivalent to the district of Memel.
• The generosity and patriotism of Virginia led her, before the adoption of the Constitution, to cede the Northwest Territory to the United States.
• The East Roman emperors were compelled to cede to them the province of Moesia and to pay them an annual tribute.
• You will be mistaken if you think the peace is made, and that we cede this Hibernian town, in order to recover Minorca, or to keep Quebec and Louisbourg.
• Both text and commentary declare that whoever refuses to cede a just demand when fasted upon shall pay double that amount.
• I felt bound, therefore, on the occasion just alluded to, to resist at the threshold a proposition to cede the public lands to the States in which they lie, on certain conditions.
• Whether those concessions extend so far as to cede these three States back to Mexico, I cannot hazard a prediction.
• No one would cede a little of his store, Though knowing that in instants three or four He must resign the whole for evermore.
• If we did not hold any part of the Pacific Coast, this might be a matter of indifference, but we have three Pacific States, and there is no purpose to cede them to the Japanese.
• If that right belongs to independent States, and they did not cede it to the Federal Government, it is reserved to the States, or to the people.

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