1. to receive; to inherit; to succeed (another in a task, etc.)
  2. to undertake; to make it one's responsibility
  3. by (order of)
  4. to continue; to carry on, as a theme
  5. to hold; to contain; to support
  6. to confess
  7. obliged; with thanks
  8. to please; to flatter

a promise; to promise; to agree to