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This was not, however, a school in the modern acceptation of the term.

The government was called ministry, differently from the current acceptation.

Paul, I am your friend in the fullest acceptation of the word.

Most assuredly he was not, in the common acceptation of the term.

In the ordinary acceptation of such language, it should have been a blow.

Fine society, in the common acceptation, has neither ideas nor aims.

We know that there has been as yet no successful definition of a nation, taking the word in its modern acceptation.

"They are certainly by no means cursive, in the common acceptation of the term".

A science, in the proper acceptation of that term.

It is to the terms of this compact that I still adhere in their widest acceptation.

In Paris, there are no slaughter-houses, in our acceptation of the term.

I am very far from surprised that "you have not committed yourself to full acceptation" of the evolution of man.

Thus it happened that he became neither musician nor poet; if we use this latter term in its every - day acceptation.

They released it in 2006 and had gotten a big acceptation in the Under Scene.

It is a maxim worthy of all acceptation, that a man may have that allowance he takes.

I thought philosophers might be allowed to speak more accurately than the vulgar, and were not always confined to the common acceptation of a term.

This, however, implies the acceptation of a concept of media as power, which is widely but not generally shared.

But our present business is with its development in words- that development to which, in practical acceptation, the world has agreed to limit the term.

I will not dispute whether this acceptation of the word solid be nearer to its original signification than that which mathematicians use it in.

We shall see hereafter how completely he became a convert to Agassiz's glacial theory in its widest acceptation.

Breviarium), signifies in its primary acceptation an abridgment, or a compendium.

Come, sir, I do not need to tell you, that there is a generosity in acceptation: and it is, alas, no more than twenty pounds.'

Exactly as complete free thought involves the doubting of thought itself, so the acceptation of mere "willing" really paralyzes the will.

Co-education, then, signifies in common acceptation identical co-education.

Subsequently, under Dr. Smalley, he become, in the then popular acceptation of the word, a new-school man.