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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Acceptatioun, n. [ME. acceptacion (1426), OF. acceptacion, -ation, late L. acceptātiōn-, acceptātio.]
1. Acceptance.1567 Acts III. 13/1 (the acceptatioun of the office of Regentrie). 1576 Reg. Privy C. II. 548 (his acceptatioun of the regiment of this realme). 1608 Fam. Seton 907 (your favourable acceptatioun of my endewore). 1648 Montgomery Mem. 310 (acceptatioune of the lait traittie). 1666 Bamff Chart. 306 (as shoe be hir acceptatione heirof acceptis the samen).
b. Reception. 1650 Lamont Diary 14.
That our commissioners gone to the King … might haue a gratious acceptatione
2. Purport, tenor (of a document). 1590 Dundee B. Laws 512.
The acceptatioun of this our present missive letteir
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