But shall we, voyaging in the spirit, use either sailing-boat or motor-boat, in the ordinary acceptation of the latter term.
My first letter of to-day replies to what you say about the acceptation of trials and the destruction of idols.
The torture can certainly be very great, especially the apprehension, but questions coming from the distance can be silenced by acceptationof what is close.
This is not the only instance in which words in their present generalacceptation bear a very opposite meaning to what they did in other times.
The word wench, formerly, was not used in the low and vulgar acceptation that it now is.
But who, in the present acceptation of the word, would dare to call "the great apostle of the Gentiles" a rascal?
But the better opinion seems to be that the Gaelic word fridh always meant a forest in the usual acceptation of the English word, and so was really covered with wood.
There is no town, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, in the parish of Gairloch, and there is no village that, properly speaking, bears the name of Gairloch.
But the general acceptation of the term is breaking or tearing the body upon a stake.
King James died like any common mortal, in the most literal acceptation of the phrase.
I think that in the ordinary acceptation of the word mob and riot, there was no mob and riot previous to the military coming there.
But the question arises whether, conceding there was a riot within the legal acceptation of the term, the usual remedies were exhausted before calling for troops.
Good shoulders, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, are not always good shoulders for a lady's horse, because while they should be clean and sloping as to the scapula, the withers should not be too fine.
According to the ordinary acceptation of the term, a horse is supposed "to bend well" when he arches his neck, yields to the bit, and uses his knees and hocks freely.
As far as I can judge, the idea of woman's emancipation, in the modern acceptation of the phrase, was far from being familiar and dear to Henrik Ibsen at the outset of his career.
Not one of the artists is an aristocrat, in the ordinary acceptation of the word.
I am decidedly not a woman's rights gentleman--that is, in the generalacceptation of that term.
I brought my father-in-law back in a dying state, and on the day preceding that of the acceptation of the constitutional act, I informed the Queen that he was no more.
Börne was devoid of artistic sense in the strictacceptation of the term.
The name in its traditional acceptation has a much narrower signification than that given to it in the present volume.
Flesh, in the Christian acceptation of the word, means the natural, the unbaptised, the original man.
Yes, kind; but not in the acceptation of the word as you have used it.
No--no," with a delightful acceptation of her rebuke.
Our taste will be formed, our conscience purified, our mind enlarged; we shall more and more become men, in the high and full acceptation of the term.
The acceptation of such intolerably irksome restraints as avoidance, in the daily economy of savage life, has seemed forcibly to imply a fundamental cause of profound depth.
And yet in the next and higher stage of social evolution, as presented in the amalgamation of groups into a tribe, the acceptation of these outside mates in peaceful connubium is precisely the most characteristic feature.
This universal conception, however, Max Müller does not regard as in any sense mystical or innate, in the old acceptation of that word.
But how the term scepticism in its modern negative acceptation is abused!
