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acception rare.|ækˈsɛpʃən|
[ad. L. acceptiōn-em, n. of action f. accept- ppl. stem of accipĕre; see accept. Used by Wyclif to translate the Vulg. acceptio persōnārum (Rom. ii. 11, etc.) acception of persons, a phrase occurring hundreds of times down to 1700, when it was supplanted by accepting, acceptance. In the general sense of acceptance = reception, the word is rather rare; but in that of acceptation = signification, in regular use from 6 till the beginning of 8. Cf. Fr. acception, which has likewise yielded to acceptation in the general sense, but still remains in senses 2 and 3, acception de personne, acception d'un mot.]
1. The act of accepting; the receiving or taking of anything presented; acceptance, reception.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 427/1 To euerichone [he] rendryd his owne by right withoute ony accepcion or takyng of money. 1578Lyte Niewe Herball Pref. 2 Most humbly craving a favourable acception hereof. 1624J. Smith Virginia v. 194 Acknowledgement and acception of all resident Gouernours. 1662H. Stubbe Indian Nectar i. 5 The universal acception of this drink amongst the most sober. 1921Glasgow Herald 7 Apr. 6/3 Acception of the Premier's proposal followed by its rejection.
2. acception of persons or faces. [A Hebrew phrase massō phānīm, ‘accepting of the face,’ verbally rendered in Gr. προσωποληψία, L. acceptio persōnæ, -ārum, the latter simply adapted in Fr. and Eng.] The receiving of the personal advances of any one with favour; hence, corrupt acceptance, or favouritism, due to a person's rank, relationship, influence, power to bribe, etc. See accept 2. (The earliest sense in Eng.)
1382Wyclif Rom. ii. 11 For accepciouns of persoones, that is, to putte oon bifore another withoute desert, is not anentis God. [Tindale parcialyte, Cranmer and 1611 respect, Rheims acception.] 1494Fabyan vi. clxi. 154 He shuld purpose the sothe & trowthe withoute accepcion of parsonys, and ponysshe mysdoers, as well the ryche as the poore. 1677Gale Crt. of Gentiles II. iv. 372 Acception of persons has place only where..any favors one more than another.
3. The accepted or received meaning or signification of a word or phrase; = acceptation 4.
1543Necessary Doctrine B, Faythe in the fyrst acception, is consydered as it is a seuerall gifte of God by it selfe. 1612T. Taylor Titus i. 7. (1619) 121 The Apostle's argument and context can admit no other acception. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 186 That is the common acception, in six hundred places it is so taken. 1711J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 86 This Acception of the term. 1850E. W. Grinfield Apol. Septuag. 179 To use Greek words, in such peculiar acceptions. 1937Nature 20 Nov. 866/2 These initial restrictions on the meaning and acception of experience.
¶ acception is frequently found for exception, with which it was phonetically confounded. |