Ridgely was in no sense a fort, but by general acceptation.

The first is the exercise of virtue, in the most general acceptation of the word.

I am decidedly not a woman's rights gentleman-thatis, in the general acceptation of that term.

Do they signify a swearing, by God, either in their natural sense or in their general acceptation?

But the general acceptation of the term is breaking or tearing the body upon a stake.]

The anger of its tone rescued the remark from intentional irony, which otherwise, probably, would have been its general acceptation.

Take red, for instance: we have seen that in the general acceptation it is to be interpreted as meaning charity, endurance, and love.

"I wish such or such a one was in heaven," is a common expression, the meaning of which is of still more general acceptation.