acceptation

It is only fair to add, that the term has also a convivial acceptation, the fairies being not unfrequently made to bear the blame of the effects arising from too copious a sacrifice to Bacchus.

Yes, actually a drawing-room, in the most elegant acceptation of the word.

Never turn away thy face from any poor man, is a text acted on by devout Romanists in its most literal acceptation.

He transcended the narrow local limits of the older logographers, and was not content to repeat the traditions that had gained general acceptation through the poets.

The other instance I am adducing gives us "cabal" in its common acceptation:— "Set up committees of cabals To pack designs without the walls."