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Definition: Acception
Acception
\Ac*cep"tion\, n. [L. acceptio a receiving, accepting:
cf. F. acception.]
Acceptation; the received meaning. [Obs.]
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Here the word
“baron” is not to be taken in that
restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath
confined it. --Fuller.
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Acception of persons or
faces (Eccl.), favoritism;
partiality. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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