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acception (s.xiiiex)
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acception (s.xiiiex)

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accepcion  
  FEW:  acceptio 24,71a Gdf:  acception 1,42b GdfC:  acception 8,20c TL: accepcion 1,71 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  acception  TLF:  acception  OED:  acception n.  MED:  accepcioun n.  DMLBS:  acceptio 13b

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1acceptance: 
( 1343 )  par attournement de luy en la vie l’auncestre il ne devynt pas noun tenant par accepcion de moy (=by acceptance by me) […] donqes semble il q’il est a juger  (ed. ajuger) ore mon tenant par descente  17-18 Ed III 323
♦acceptance of a distinction: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Li point de rap des mariages est repernable en taunt qe il i ad acception des persones de lais et des clercs car n’est nient plus dreit qe clerc pecchie saunz peine qe homme lai  183
2pej.favouritism: 
( 1382 )  Q’il tienge les ordinances suisditz […] sans flescher d’un part ou d’autre par acception de persone  iii 142
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