any expression of joy, or applause, whereby the public testifies its approbation.

ACCLAMATION is also used, in a bad sense, for expressions of detestation.

in rhetoric, a figure, the same with Epiphonema, which see.

ACCLAMATION medals, among antiquaries, such as represent the people expressing their joy in the posture of acclamation.

ACCLIVUS, in anatomy, a synonyme of the obliquus ascendentis muscle. See Anatomy, Part II.