I. A taking, receiving, or accepting: neque deditionem neque donationem sine acceptione intellegi posse, * Cic. Top. 8, 37: “frumenti,” Sall. J. 29, 4.—
B. In later philos. lang.: the acceptance, i. e. the granting of a proposition, Pseudo App. Dogm. Plat. 3, p. 34 med.—
II. An esteeming, regarding: of a thing, Cod. Th. 1, 9, 2; “of a person: personarum,” Vulg. Paral. 2, 19, 7 (transl. of); cf. 1. acceptor, no. II. B.