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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Acception \Ac*cep"tion\, n. [L. acceptio a receiving, accepting: cf. F. acception.] Acceptation; the received meaning. [Obs.] Here the word [bd]baron[b8] 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. |