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noun

Acceptation n.

Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. (Obs.) "This is saying worthy of all acceptation." "Some things... are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God."

The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. "My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation."

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Etymology of 'Acceptation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Acceptation" Quotes from Famous Books

... and it would not be difficult to fancy yourself in a lodging-house. There may be a few odds and ends picked up on the overland route, and a set of stereotyped ornaments bought at an auction sale or sent out as 'sundries' in a general cargo; but of bric-a-brac, in the usual acceptation of the term, there ...

— Town Life in Australia - 1883 • R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny

... a word still in use, though Johnson says it is the oldest acceptation of it. It is the bodekin of Chaucer; and Shakspeare makes Hamlet ask who would bear the ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... theology' is simply a branch of science, amenable to the ordinary scientific tests. It is intended to prove the existence of an agent essential to the working of the machinery, as from the movements of a planet we infer the existence of a disturbing planet. The argument from design, in this acceptation, is briefly mentioned by 'Philip Beauchamp.' It is, he argues, 'completely extra-experimental'; for experience only reveals design in living beings: it supposes a pre-existing chaos which can never be shown to have existed, and the 'omnipotent will' introduced to explain the facts ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) - James Mill • Leslie Stephen

... we find the idea of a free constitution admitting all the citizens to a share in deliberations and resolves respecting the affairs and laws of the commonwealth. In our times, too, this is its general acceptation; only with this modification, that—since our States are so large, and there are so many of "the many," the latter (direct action being impossible) should by the indirect method of elective substitution express their ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

... there hath ceased from thee that which we knew in thee aforetime of integrity and wisdom and eloquence. Could I but learn who hath thus changed thee and fumed thee from wisdom to folly and from fidelity to iniquity and from mildness to harshness and from acceptation of me to aversion from me! How cometh it that I admonish thee thrice and thou acceptest not mine admonition and that I counsel thee rightfully and stir thou gainsayest my counsel? Tell me, what is this child's play and who is it prompteth thee thereunto? Know that ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton

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