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acception |
1 definition found 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 ``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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