Word Meanings - ACCEPTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ACCEPTATION)

• Reception
• Admission
• admittance
• acceptance
• acceptation
• entertainment

Related words: (words related to ACCEPTATION)

• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• 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
• ADMISSION
  Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry. 5. A fact, point, or statement admitted;
• ENTERTAINMENT
  1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the
• RECEPTION
  1. The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence. 2. The state of being received. 3. The act or manner of receiving, esp.
• ACCEPTANCE
  An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law. Note: What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty. Mozley & W. Note: In modern law, proposal and acceptance are
• MISACCEPTATION
  Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
• NONADMISSION
  Failure to be admitted.
• PREADMISSION
  Lit., previous admission; specif. ,
• READMITTANCE
  Allowance to enter again; a second admission.
• INTRORECEPTION
  The act of admitting into or within. Hammond.
• READMISSION
  The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.
• NONACCEPTANCE
  A neglect or refusal to accept.
• PRECEPTION
  A precept. Bp. Hall.