n. [ L. abreptus, p. p. of abripere to snatch away; ab + rapere to snatch. ] A snatching away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Accepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accepting. ] [ F. accepter, L. acceptare, freq. of accipere; ad + capere to take; akin to E. heave. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of. [ 1913 Webster ]

If you accept them, then their worth is great. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To accept of ransom for my son. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

She accepted of a treat. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To receive with favor; to approve. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice. Ps. xx. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Peradventure he will accept of me. Gen. xxxii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted? [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Com.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [ This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. --
To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as regularly served, when it has not been. --
To accept the person (Eccl.), to show favoritism. “God accepteth no man's person.” Gal. ii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To receive; take; admit. See Receive. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Accepted. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. acceptabilitas. ] The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness. “Acceptability of repentance.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. acceptable, L. acceptabilis, fr. acceptare. ] Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar. Isa. lx. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State of being accepted; acceptableness. “Makes it assured of acceptance.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) (a) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance. (b) The bill itself when accepted. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In modern law, proposal and acceptance are the constituent elements into which all contracts are resolved. [ 1913 Webster ]

acceptance of a bill of exchange,
acceptance of a check,
acceptance of a draft, or
acceptance of an order, is an engagement to pay it according to the terms. This engagement is usually made by writing the word “accepted” across the face of the bill.
Acceptance of goods, under the statute of frauds, is an intelligent acceptance by a party knowing the nature of the transaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Meaning; acceptation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Acceptance of persons, partiality, favoritism. See under Accept. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Acceptance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Here's a proof of gift,
But here's no proof, sir, of acceptancy. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Accepting; receiving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An accepter. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This is saying worthy of all acceptation. 1 Tim. i. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. [ 1913 Webster ]

My words, in common acceptation,
Could never give this provocation. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a accepted manner; admittedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person who accepts; a taker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A respecter; a viewer with partiality. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God is no accepter of persons. Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) An acceptor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acceptilatio entry of a debt collected, acquittance, fr. p. p. of accipere (cf. Accept) + latio a carrying, fr. latus, p. p. of ferre to carry: cf. F. acceptilation. ] (Civil Law) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. acceptio a receiving, accepting: cf. F. acception. ] Acceptation; the received meaning. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Here the word “baron” is not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acception of persons or
faces (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fit for acceptance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ready to accept. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who accepts; specifically (Law & Com.), one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adeptus obtained (sc. artem), &unr_;he who has obtained an art, p. p. of adipsci to arrive &unr_;at, to obtain; ad + apisci to pursue. See Apt, and cf. Adapt. ] One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beaus adept in everything profound. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adeptio. See Adept, a. ] An obtaining; attainment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A skilled alchemist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adept; skill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ala wing + E. septal. ] (Anat.) Relating to expansions of the nasal septum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + E. peptone. ] (Physiol.) A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'ana`lhptiko`s restorative: cf. F. analeptique. See Analepsis. ] (Med.) Restorative; giving strength after disease. -- n. A restorative drug; a drug that stimulates the central nervous system. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. [ overturning, fr. &unr_; to turn up or over; &unr_; + &unr_; too turn. ] Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues. Enfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + epileptic. ] (Med.) Good against epilepsy. -- n. A medicine for epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antepileptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a substance which kills or retards the growth of microorganisms, especially when used for protection against infection; a substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona, and many other agents sold commercially. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By means of antiseptics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. ad- + perception: cf. F. apperception. ] (Metaph.) The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensified or energetic perception. Leibnitz. Reid. [ 1913 Webster ]

This feeling has been called by philosophers the apperception or consciousness of our own existence. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arripere, arreptum, to seize, snatch; ad + rapere to snatch. See Rapacious. ] The act of taking away. [ Obs. ] “This arreption was sudden.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. arreptitius. ] Snatched away; seized or possessed, as a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- not + septic. ] 1. Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. free from pathogenic microorganisms; sterile; as, aseptic operating conditions. [ PJC ]

3. [ metaphorical ] lacking emotion, human warmth, or excitement. [ PJC ]

n. An aseptic substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. aligned from front to back; slanted toward the back; -- used of hair.
Syn. -- sweptback. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + septate. ] With two partitions or septa. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. katalhptiko`s. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Chlorine + peptic. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin-hydrochloric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] See Kleptomania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conceptus (cf. neut. conceptum fetus), p. p. of concipere to conceive: cf. F. concept. See Conceit. ] An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conceptaculum, fr. concipere to receive. See Conceive. ] 1. That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. [ Obs. ] Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles. (b) One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Conceive. ] Capable of being conceived; conceivable. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. conception, L. conceptio, fr. concipere to conceive. See Conceive. ] 1. The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Gen. iii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being conceived; beginning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Joy had the like conception in our eyes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception. [ 1913 Webster ]

Under the article of conception, I shall confine myself to that faculty whose province it is to enable us to form a notion of our past sensations, or of the objects of sense that we have formerly perceived. Stewart. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conception consists in a conscious act of the understanding, bringing any given object or impression into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Herodotus ] says that the sun draws or attracts the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Idea; purpose; design. [ 1913 Webster ]

Note this dangerous conception. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Conceit; affected sentiment or thought. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticism. Dryden.

Syn. -- Idea; notion; perception; apprehemsion; comprehension. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to conception. [ 1913 Webster ]