recapitulation 
cal as trans, of Gr. avaxxfttiaiuotf), < L. recapitu- 
lare, recapitulate: see recapitulate.] 1. The 
act or process of recapitulating. 
D. Fer. Were e'er two friends engag'd in an adventure 
So intricate as we, and so capricious? 
Z>. Jut. Sure never in this world ; methinks it merits 
A special recapitulation. Diffby, Elvira, iii. 
2. In rket., a summary or concise statement or 
enumeration of the principal points or facts in 
a preceding discourse, argument, or essay. Also 
anacephalseosis, enumeration. See epanodos. 
Such earnest and hastie heaping vp of speaches be made 
by way of recapitulation, which commonly is in the end of 
euery long tale and Oration, because the speaker seemes 
to make a collection of all the former materiall points, to 
binde them as it were in a bundle and lay them forth to en- 
force the cause. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 198. 
recapitulative (re-ka-pit'u-la-tiy), . [< re- 
capitulate + -ive.] Of or pertaining to recapit- 
ulation; resulting from or characterized by re- 
capitulation; giving a summary of the chief 
parts or points. 
It has been shown that these [rudimentary structures] 
are the last recapitulative remnant of an independent 
series of structures developed outside the spore in the 
fern. Nature, XLI. 816. 
recapitulator (re-ka-pit'u-la-tor), n. [< reca- 
pitulate + -or 1 .] One who recapitulates. 
recapitulatory (re-ka-pit'u-la-to-ri), a. [< re- 
capitulate + -ory.] Of the nature of or con- 
taining recapitulation. 
This law is comprehensive and recapitulatory (as it were) 
of the rest concerning our neighbour, prescribing univer- 
sal justice toward him. Barrow, Expos, of the Decalogue. 
recaption (re-kap'shon), n. [< re- + caption.] 
The act of retaking ; reprisal ; in law, the retak- 
ing, without force or violence, of one's own 
goods, chattels, wife, or children from one who 
has taken them and wrongfully detains them. 
Also called reprisal Writ of recaption, a writ to 
recover property taken by a second distress pending a re- 
plevin for a former distress for the same rent or service. 
recaptor (re-kap'tor), n. [< re- + captor.] One 
who recaptures; one who takes a prize which 
had been previously taken. 
recapture (re-kap'tur), n. [< re- + capture, .] 
1 . The act of retaking ; particularly, the retak- 
ing of a prize or goods from a captor. 2. That 
which is recaptured; a prize retaken. 
recapture (re-kap'tur), v. t. [< re- + capture, 
v.~\ To capture back or again ; retake, partic- 
ularly a prize which had been previously taken. 
recarburization (re-kar"bu-ri-za'shon), n. [< 
recarburize + -ation.] The adding'of carbon 
to take the place of that removed. 
recarburize (ve-kar'bu-riz), v. t. [< re- + car- 
burize.] To restore to (a metal) the carbon 
previously removed, especially in any metal- 
lurgical operation connected with the manu- 
facture of iron or steel. 
recarnify (re-kar'm-fi), . t. [< re- + caniify.] 
To convert again into flesh. 
Looking upon them [a herd of kinel quietly grazing up 
and down, I fell to consider that the Flesh which is daily 
dish'd upon our Tables is but concocted Grass, which is 
recarnified in our Stomachs and transmuted to another 
Flesh. Howell, Letters, ii. 50. 
recarriage (re-kar'aj), . [< re- + carriage.] 
A carrying back or again ; repeated carriage. 
Another thing there is in our markets worthie to be 
looked vnto, and that is the recariaye of graine from the 
same into lofts and sollars. 
Harrison, Descrip. of Eng., ii. 18 (Holinshed's Chron.,1.). 
recarry (re-kar'i), v. t. [< re- + carry.] To 
carry back, as in returning ; carry again or in 
a reversed direction. 
When the Turks besieged Malta or Rhodes, . . .pigeons 
are then related to carry and recarry letters. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, L 1. 
recast (re-kasf), t'. t. [< re- + casft.] I. To 
throw again. 
In the midst of their running race they would cast and 
recast themselves from one to another horse. 
Florio, tr. of Montaigne, p. 155. 
2. To cast or found again: as, to recast can- 
non. 3. To cast or form anew; remodel; re- 
mold : as, to recast a poem. 
Your men of close application, though taking their 
terms from the common language, find themselves under 
a necessity of recasting them in a mould of their own. 
A. Tucker, Light of Nature, I. L 6. 
Not painlessly doth God recast 
And mould anew the nation. 
Whittier, "Bin FesteBurg 1st unser Gott." 
4f. To cover anew with plaster: said of an old 
wall or building. 5. To compute anew; re- 
calculate : as, to recast an account, 
recast (re-kasf), n. [< recast, v.] A fresh 
molding, arrangement, or modification, as of a 
work of art, a writing, etc. 
4996 
Popular feeling called for a dlaskeue', or thorough re- 
cast. Ve Q,mncey, Homer, iii. 
recaulescence (re-ka-les'ens), n. [< re- + 
caulescen(t) + -ce.] In bot., the adiiation of a 
petiole to a peduncle or a leafy branch : a term 
of Schimper's. 
recchet, ? A Middle English form of reck. 
recchelest, A Middle English form of n </. - 
less. 
recede 1 (re-sed') ( .'.; pret. and pp. receded, 
ppr. receding. [< OF. receder, F. receder = It. 
recedere, < L. recedere, go back, withdraw, re- 
treat, < re-, back, + cedere, go: see cede.] 1. 
To move back ; retreat ; withdraw ; fall away. 
The world receded from her rising view, 
When heaven approach'd as earthly things withdrew. 
Craobe, Works, IV. 186. 
2. To withdraw an affirmation, a belief, a de- 
mand, or the like ; turn back or aside. 
It is plain that the more you recede from your grounds, 
the weaker do you conclude. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 369. 
3. To have a backward inclination, slope, or ten- 
dency: as, a receding coast-line ; arecerft<7chin. 
= Syn. 1. To retire, retrograde, give way. See retread. 
recede 2 (re-sed' ),v.t. [< re- + cede.] To cede 
back ; grant or yield to a former possessor : as, 
to recede conquered territory. 
recedence (re-se'dens), n. [< recede 1 + -ence.] 
Same as recession*'. [Bare.] 
The beaded brown kelp deepens to bronze in ... the 
wet, rich, pulpy recedence of the ebb. 
Harper's Mag., LXXII. 94. 
receipt (re-set'), . [Formerly also receit (the 
p being inserted in imitation of the L. original, 
and the proper spelling being receit, like conceit, 
deceit) ; (a) < ME. receit, receyt, receite, receipt, 
recipe, < AF. receite, OF. recete, recepte, reyoite, 
F. recette = Pr. recepta = Sp. receta = Pg. re- 
ceite = It. ricetta, t., receipt, recipe, < ML. 
recepta, f., receipt, recipe, money received, 
a treasury, a right of pasture, lit. (sc. res, a 
thing) ' a thing received,' fern, of L. receptus, 
pp. of recipere, receive ; (6) in defs. 5 and 6, 
also reset (see reset 1 ), < ME. recet, reset, resset, 
rescet, resale, < OF. recet, receit, recept, reset, rc- 
yoit, rechet, recliiet, etc., = Sp. recepto = It. ri- 
cetto, m., a retreat, refuge, abode, asylum (see 
recheat), < L. receptus, m., a receiving, place of 
retreat, refuge, < recipere, pp. receptus, receive : 
see receite. Cf. reset 1 and rectteat, doublets of 
receipt; cf. also recept.] 1. A thing received ; 
that which is received by transfer ; the amount 
or quantity of what is received from other 
hands: as, the receipts of cotton at a port. 
Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais 
Disbursed I duly to his highness' soldiers. 
Shah., Rich. II., i. 1. 126. 
He wintered for the second time in Dublin ; where his 
own pieces, and Macklin's " Love-a-la-Mode," brought 
great receipts to Crow-Street theatre. 
W. Cooke, Memoirs of S. Foote, I. 51. 
2. The act or state of receiving by transfer or 
transmission; a taking of that which is de- 
livered or passed over; a getting or obtaining: 
as, the receipt of money or of a letter; he is in 
the receipt of a good income. 
Christ in us is that receipt of the same medicine where- 
by we are every one particularly cured. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 55. 
Villain, thou did'st deny the gold's receipt. 
Shale., C. of K, it 2. 17. 
3. A written acknowledgment of having re- 
ceived something specified, with date, source, 
signature, and such other particulars as the 
case requires. A receipt may be for something re- 
ceived as a trust or a purchase, or for money or other 
valuable thing taken either in part or in full payment of 
a debt. At common law a mere unsealed receipt, though 
expressed to be in full for a debt, does not by its own 
force operate to discharge the debt if the payment in fact 
be of a part only. A receipt is not deemed a contract 
within the rule that a written contract cannot be varied 
by oral evidence. 
4. A formula or prescription for the making of 
something, or the production of some effect; 
a statement of that which is to be taken or done 
for some purpose : distinguished from recipe by 
the common restriction of that word to medical 
or related uses: as, a receipt for a pudding; a 
receipt for gaining popularity. 
Come, sir, the sight of Golde 
Is the most sweet receit for melancholy, 
And will reuiue your spirits. 
Heywood, Woman Killed with Kindness (Works, ed. Pear- 
[son, 1874, II. 107). 
We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 96. 
No Receipt can Human-kind relieve, 
Doom'd to decrepit Age without Reprieve. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
receive 
5f. Reception ; admittance ; a granting of en- 
trance or admission. 
He wayted hym aboute, & wylde hit hym thost, 
& sege no syngne of resette. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2164. 
Ther [in heaven] entrej non to take reset, 
That bereg any spot. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1066. 
Come, cave, become my grave; come, death, and lend 
Receipt to me within thy bosom dark. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
6f. A place for the reception of persons or 
things ; a place where anything is received or 
taken in; a station or a receptacle for lodg- 
ment. 
Men han made a litylle Resceyt, besyde a Pylere of that 
Chirche, for to resceyve the Offrynges of Pilgrymes. 
MandeviUe, Travels, p. 112. 
Go forth, tary we not behynd, 
Vnto som receit nye the wodes lynde, 
Wher we mow thys tym receyued to be. 
JKom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 159. 
He saw Lvi . . . sitting at the receipt of custom [place 
of toll, E. V.]. Mark II. 14. 
Memory, the warder of the brain, 
Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason 
A limbeck only. Shak., Macbeth, L 7. 66. 
7f. Power of receiving or taking in; extent of 
accommodation ; fitness for holding or contain- 
ing. 
The f oresald ships were of an huge and Incredible capa- 
cltie and receipt. Hakluyt'i Voyages, I. 693. 
In things of great receipt with ease we prove 
Among a number one is reckon'd none. 
Shak., Sonnets, cxxxvi. 
Such be the capacity and receipt of the mind of man. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 9. 
Accountable receipt. See accountable. = Syn. Recipe, 
etc. See reception. 
receipt (re-set'), f. t. [Also in technical legal 
use reset (see resell); < ME. recetten, reseten; 
from the noun: see receipt, n.] It. To receive; 
harbor. 
And 36 hit make, and that me grevcs, 
A den to reset inne theves. 
Cursor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab., f. 91. (HaUiwett.) 
My lorde hym recetted in hys castell 
For the dewkya dethe oton. 
MS. Cantab., ft. ii. 38, f. 220. (Halliwell.) 
2. To give a receipt for; acknowledge in 
writing the pavment of: as, to receipt a bill 
(usually by writing upon the bill "Received 
payment" and the creditor's signature). 
receiptable (re-se'ta-bl), a. [<receipt + -able.] 
Capable of being receipted ; for which a receipt 
may be granted. 
receipt-book (re-set'buk), . A book contain- 
ing receipts, in either sense 3 or sense 4. 
receiptment (re-set'ment), . [< receipt + 
ment.] In old Eng. law, the receiving or har- 
boring of a felon with knowledge on the part 
of the harborer of the commission of a felony. 
Burritt. 
receiptor (re-se'tor),H. [< receipt + -or 1 .] One 
who gives a receipt; specifically, in laic, a per- 
son to whom property is bailed by an officer, 
who has attached it upon mesne process, to 
answer to the exigency of the writ and satisfy 
the judgment, the obligation of the receiptor 
being to have it forthcoming on demand. 
Wharton. 
receitt, . A former spelling of receipt (and of 
the ultimately identical recheat). 
receivability (re-se-va-bil'i-ti), . [< receivable 
+ -ity (see -biliiy).] The quality of being re- 
ceivable. Imp. Diet. 
receivable (re-se'va-bl), a. [< F. recevable (cf. 
Pg. recebivel = It. ricevevole), receivable; as re- 
ceive + -able.] 1. Capable of being received ; 
fit for reception or acceptance. 2. Awaiting 
receipt of payment ; that is to be paid : as, 
bills receivable. See bill payable, bill receivable, 
under MV?. 
receivableness (re-se'va-bl-nes), n. The char- 
acter of being receivable ; capability of being 
received. 
receive (re-sev'), r. ; pret. and pp. received, ppr. 
receiving. ' [Early mod. E. also receeve, receave ; 
< ME. receiven, receyven, reseyven, resseyven, re- 
sceyven, resayven, resacen, < OF. recever, recevoir, 
refoivre, F. recevoir = Pr. recebre = Sp. recibir 
= Pg. receber = It. ricerere. receive, < L. reci- 
pere, pp. receptus, take back, get back, regain, 
recover, take to oneself, admit, accept, receive, 
take in, assume, allow, etc., < re-, back, + ca- 
pere, take : see capacious. Cf . conceive, deceive, 
perceive. Hence ult. (from the L. verb) receipt, 
receptacle, recipe, etc.] I. trans. 1. To take 
from a source or agency of transmission; get 
