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Acception   Listen
noun
Acception  n.  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."
Acception of persons or Acception of faces (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. (Obs.)





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"Acception" Quotes from Famous Books



... certaine Alanians, wno are called [Marginal note: Or Akas.] Acias, being Christians after the maner of the Grecians, vsing greeke bookes and Grecian priests: howbeit they are not schismatiques as the Grecians are, but without acception of persons, they honour al Christians. And they brought vnto vs sodden flesh, requesting vs to eat of their meat, and to pray for one of their company being dead. Then I sayd, because it was the euen of so great and so solemne a feast day, that we would not eate any ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt


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