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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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