Dictionary entry

Acceptation

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ac′cep‐ta″tion (�), n. 1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.

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.