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Word Meanings - ACCEPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Acceptation; the received meaning. 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 , favoritism; partiality. Wyclif.

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  • RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
    An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
  • BARONET
    A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners. Note: The order was founded
  • MODERN
    1. Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon. 2. New and common;
  • SENSE
    A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
  • CONFINER
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
  • BARONIAL
    Pertaining to a baron or a barony. "Baronial tenure." Hallam.
  • RECEIVE
    To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
  • CONFINABLE
    Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.
  • BARONAGE
    1. The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet. 2. The dignity or rank of a baron. 3. The land which gives title to a baron.
  • FULLER
    One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
  • ACCEPTATION
    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
  • BARONG
    A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.
  • PARTIALITY
    1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • MODERNIZATION
    The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
  • ACCEPTION
    Acceptation; the received meaning. 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 , favoritism; partiality. Wyclif.
  • BARON
    A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port.
  • CONFINELESS
    Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • MEAN
    menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
  • MISDEMEAN
    To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
  • DEMEANURE
    Behavior. Spenser.
  • INSENSE
    To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
  • REMEANT
    Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
  • ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
    Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
  • MISRECEIVE
    To receive wrongly.
  • MISACCEPTATION
    Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
  • INTERMEAN
    Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.

 

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