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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌæk.sɛp.ˈteɪ.ʃən/

名詞

acceptation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 acceptations)

1. (obsolete) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.
   • 1676, Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton, “The Second Book of Eccleſiaſtical Polity”, in The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Eccleſiaſtical Polity‎^[1], page 122:

     Finally, ſome things although not ſo required of neceſſity, that to leave them undone excludeth from Salvation, are notwithſtanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God, that moſt ample reward in Heaven is laid up for them.

   • 1769, Oxford Standard text, King James Bible: 1 Timothy, i, 15,

     This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

2. The meaning (sense) in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received.

   Coordinate terms: parse, parsing

   The term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.

   • 1731 January 30, John Gay, “Fable: The Dog and the Fox: To a Lawyer”, in Caleb D'Anvers (Nicholas Amhurst), editor, The Craftsman‎^[2], volume 7, page 233:

     My words, in common Acceptation, / Could never give this Provocation

   • 1843, John Stuart Mill, ""A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, ..., Bk V, Ch 7:

     In its most proper acceptation, theory means the completed result of philosophical induction from experience.

   • 1904–1906, E. K. Chambers, "The Comedy of Errors", in Shakespeare: A Survey, Fifth Printing, published 1958, page 27:

     Farce, indeed, is a term which has been used by literary historians in two rather different shades of meaning. In one acceptation, derived from its use as applied to Maître Pathelin and other examples of fiteenth-century French dramatic humour, it does not so much connote something other than comedy, as a variety of comedy itself. It is a matter of temper and milieu.

3. Ready belief.

関連する語

• acceptative

参照

• “acceptation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.