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Acception

Acception \Ac*cep"tion\, n. [L. acceptio a receiving, accepting: cf. F. acception.] Acceptation; the received meaning. [Obs.]

Here the word ``baron'' is not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it.
--Fuller.

Acception of persons or faces (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. [Obs.]
--Wyclif.

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acception

n. (context obsolete English) acceptation; the received meaning.

Usage examples of "acception".

For Injustice, Ingratitude, Arrogance, Pride, Iniquity, Acception of persons, and the rest, can never be made lawfull.

Nor, truely, can I peremptorily deny that the Soul, in this her sublunary estate, is wholly and in all acceptions inorganical.

In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to dye daily: nor can I think I have the true Theory of death, when I contemplate a skull, or behold a Skeleton, with those vulgar imaginations it casts upon us.