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Withtake vs Acceptance - What's the difference?

withtake | acceptance |

As a verb withtake

is (archaic) to rebuke; reprimand.

As a noun acceptance is

the act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval.

withtake

English

Verb

  • (archaic) To rebuke; reprimand.
  • To withhold; retain.
  • To receive; accept; (often reflexive) To take along; take with.
  • *1909 , Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by command :
    • [...] and if the people of the said cities and towns will not or are not able to maintain them they shall withtake themselves to other towns and cities within the hundred, or to the town where they were born, and shall there continually abide during their life.
  • *1961 , Pierre Esprit Radisson, Arthur T. Adams, The explorations of Pierre Esprit Radisson :
    • Not desiring to be discovered, we found a fair road close by a wood, withtook ourselves out of it with all haste, and went towards a village.
  • *1994 , J. P. Donleavy, A Singular Man :
    • "[...] Luckily the general structure withtook the shock and only the ceiling collapsed."

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    acceptance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval
    • the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
  • * Isaiah 60:7 :
    • They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.
  • Belief in something; agreement; assent.
  • State of being accepted.
  • * Shakespeare: Rape of Lucrece :
    • Makes it assured of acceptance .
  • (business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
  • (business, finance) The bill of exchange itself when accepted.
  • An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
  • (legal) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
  • (US, government) The act of an authorized representative of the Government by which the Government assents to ownership by it of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
  • The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, pluralonly) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.

    • Usage notes

    * In modern law, proposal and acceptance are the constituent elements into which all contracts are resolved.

    Derived terms

    * (sense) acceptance of a bill of exchange, acceptance of goods * acceptance of persons * banker's acceptance, trade acceptance

    Synonyms

    * (act of accepting) accepting, receiving, reception, approval * (State of being accepted) acceptableness * (sense) assent

    References

    * * Mozley and Whitely, Law Dictionary : *: What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty.