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Some question might also be made, whether the word "lately" was not intended to limit this acceptation of English law.
CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND, VOLUME 3 OF 3HENRY HALLAM
Thus it happened that he became neither musician nor poet; if we use this latter term in its every—day acceptation.
THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POEEDGAR ALLAN POE
In quite a short time he became a polished gentleman, in the sixteenth-century acceptation of that term.
RUBENSSAMUEL LEVY BENSUSAN
Yet it is not unlikely that Nebuchadnezzar used the phrase in this acceptation in ii.
THE THREE ADDITIONS TO DANIEL, A STUDYWILLIAM HEAFORD DAUBNEY
To us the performance was an execution in the Tyburn acceptation of the word.
GARCIA THE CENTENARIAN AND HIS TIMESM. STERLING MACKINLAY
He has property; that is, in its second acceptation, the right of domain.
WHAT IS PROPERTY?P. J. PROUDHON
The world's great men, according to the acceptation of the term, have not always been great scholars.
GENIUS IN SUNSHINE AND SHADOWMATURIN MURRAY BALLOU
My first letter of to-day replies to what you say about the acceptation of trials and the destruction of idols.
LETTERS OF A SOLDIERANONYMOUS
It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONSJOHN BARTLETT
It is found in this acceptation among the antient Celt, and Germans, as we learn from Cluverius.
A NEW SYSTEM; OR, AN ANALYSIS OF ANTIENT MYTHOLOGY. VOLUME I.JACOB BRYANT

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