Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Acception

Acception ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Latin acceptio a receiving, accepting: compare French acception.]

Acceptation; the received meaning. [Obsolete]
Here the word “baron” is not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it. — Fuller
Collocations (1)
Acception of persons or faces (Ecclesiastical) , favoritism; partiality. [Obsolete] — Wyclif