• (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. • (n.) The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/acceptation/
Ac`cep·ta'tion noun 1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [ Obsolete] « This is saying worthy of all acceptation . 1 Tim. i. 15. » « Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/13