Hypertext Webster Gateway: "acceptation"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Acceptation \Ac`cep*ta"tion\, n.
1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard;
state of being acceptable. [Obs.]

This is saying worthy of all acceptation. --1 Tim.
i. 15.

Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great
dignity and acceptation with God. --Hooker.

2. 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. --Gay.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

acceptation
n 1: acceptance as true or valid
2: the meaning of a word [syn: {word meaning}, {word sense}]


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