acceptation

Some question might also be made, whether the word "lately" was not intended to limit this acceptation of English law.

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

In quite a short time he became a polished gentleman, in the sixteenth-century acceptation of that term.

Yet it is not unlikely that Nebuchadnezzar used the phrase in this acceptation in ii.