Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Acceptation \Ac`cep*ta"tion\, n.
   1. Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard;
      state of being acceptable. [Obs.]

            This is saying worthy of all acceptation. --1 Tim.
                                                  i. 15.

            Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great
            dignity and acceptation with God.     --Hooker.

   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.

            My words, in common acceptation, Could never give
            this provocation.                     --Gay.

Source : WordNet®

acceptation
     n 1: acceptance as true or valid
     2: the accepted meaning of a word [syn: {word meaning}, {word
        sense}]
     3: the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception;
        "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide
        acceptance" [syn: {adoption}, {acceptance}, {espousal}]