recent 
Shall I not think that, with disorder'd charms, 
All heav'n beholds me recent from thy arms? 
Pope, Iliad, xiv. 382. 
Amphitryon recent from the nether sphere. 
Lewis, tr. of Statius's Thebaid, viii. 
= Syn. 1. Late, Fresh, etc. See new. 
recently (re'sent-li), adv. At a recent time; 
newly; lately'; freshly; not long since: as, 
advices recently received; a town recently built 
or repaired; an isle recently discovered. 
recentness (re'sent-nes), n. The state or qual- 
ity of being recent; newness; freshness; re- 
cency; lateness of origin or occurrence: as, 
the recentness of alluvial land ; the recentness of 
news or of events. 
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borne. (3) In Fueacese, a part of the thallus in 
which conceptacles (see conceptacle) are con- 
gregated. They are either terminal portions of 
receptrix 
or delivery ; a taking into custody or possession 
of something tendered or presented; an in- 
stance of receipt: as, the reception of an invi- 
branches or parts sustained above water by air- tation; a taking into place, position, or asso- 
iiiarMo n.\jr> fum o,, a t ,*,.,. ciation ; admission to entrance or insertion; a 
taking or letting in: as, a groove or socket for 
the reception of a handle ; the reception of food 
in the stomach ; reception of a person into so- 
ciety. 2. Admission into the mind; a taking 
into cognizance or consideration ; a granting 
of credence; acceptance: as, the reception of 
a doctrine. 
bladders. (4) In fungi, sometimes same as stro- 
ma; in Ascomycetes, same as jii/ciiidiinii, 1 (also 
the stalk of a discocarp); in I'lialloidese, the 
inner part of the sporophore, supporting the 
gleba. (5) In lichens, the cup containing the 
soredia. The term has some other analogous 
applications. 3. In zool. and anat., a part or 
an organ which receives and contains or detains 
a secretion ; a receptaculum : as, the gall-blad- 
der is the receptacle of the bile. 
recept (re'sept), . [< L. reeeptum, neut. of receptacula, n. Plural of receptaculum. 
receptus, pp. of reclpere, receive: see receive, receptacular (re-sep-tak'u-lar), a. [= F. re- 
- ceptaculaire, ' 
Of. receipt."] That which is received ; especial- 
ly, something taken into the mind from an ex- 
ternal source; an idea derived from observa- 
tion. [Recent.] 
The bridge between recept and concept is equally im- 
passable as that between percept and concept 
Mli, n;i 11,11, No. 3193, p. 12. 
receptacle (re-sep'ta-kl, formerly also res'ep- 
ta-ki), n. [< OF. receptacle, F. receptacle = Pr. 
receptacle = Sp. receptdculo = Pg. receptaculo 
= It. ricettacolo, recettaculo, < L. receptaculum, 
a receptacle, place to receive or store things 
< L. receptaculum, a receptacle: 
see receptacle.] \. In bot., of or pertaining to 
a receptacle. 2. In zool. and anat., serving 
as a receptacle or reservoir; pertaining to a 
receptaculum. 
receptaculite (re-sep-tak'u-lit), n. [< NL. Re- 
eeptaculites.~\ A fossil of the genus Recepta- 
culites. 
Receptaculites (re-sep-tak-u-li'tez), n. [NL. 
(Defrance, 1827), < L. receptaculum, a recepta- 
cle (see receptacle), + -ites (see -ite 2 ).] The 
God never intended to compel, but only to persuade, 
us into a reception of divine truth. 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. vii. 
3. A receiving into audience, intercourse, or 
entertainment; treatment of a person on ap- 
proach or presentation ; greeting or welcome, 
as of a visitor: as, a cordial reception. 4. 
An occasion of ceremonious or complimentary 
greeting; an assemblage of persons to be in- 
dividually received or greeted by an enter- 
tainer or by a guest selected for special atten- 
tion: as, to give weekly receptions. 
He assembled all his train, 
Pretending so commanded, to consult 
About the great reception of their King, 
Thither to come. Milton, P. L., v. 769. 
- f , , typical genus of Receptaculitidie. 
in, < recipere, pp. receptus, receive, hold, con- Receptaculitidae (re-sep-tak-u-lit'i-de), n. pi. "t- A retaking; recapture; recovery, 
tain: see receive."] 1. That which receives or [NL., < Receptaculites + -idte.] A family of He was right glad of the French King's reception of those 
holds anything for rest or deposit ; a storing- fossil organisms, typified by the genus Recepta- Townes from Maximilian. Bacon, Hist. Hen. vil., p. 44. 
place ; a repository ; a container 
open or closed, that serves for 
eepmg. are tne regl j t of f 088 ui M tion. They are of a spherical or 
* in a vault, an ancient receptacle, pyriform shape, with a central closed cavity and an upper 
Where, for these many hundred years, the bones and lower pole, and the wall is composed of pillar-like 
Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd. spicules at right angles to the surface and expanded at 
their outer ends into rhomboidal summit-plates forming 
a mosaic-like outer layer. The species lived in the seas 
of the Silurian and Devonian epochs. Also called Recepta- 
culidx. 
>su; a storing- J u, typuieu uy uie genus aecepia- 
er; any space, culites, of a very doubtful nature. They have been 
reception and referred by many to the silicious sponges ; but the skele- 
ton was originally calcareous, and the silicious examples 
Shak., R. and J., iv. 3. 39. 
Least his neighbor's countrey might be an harborugh 
or receptacle of his foes and aduersaries. 
Hall, Kdw. III., an. 10. 
2. In bot.: (a) In a single flower, the more or receptaculum (re-sep-tak'u-lum), .; pi. recep- 
less enlarged and peculiarly developed apex of taeula ^: _&.: Bee receptacle.] In zool., 
the peduncle or pedicel, upon which all the or- 
gans of the flower are directly or indirectly 
6t. Power or capacity of receiving; receptiv- 
ity; susceptivity. 
That were to extend 
His sentence beyond dust and nature's law, 
By which all causes else, according still 
To the reception of their matter, act, 
Not to the extent of their own sphere. 
Jfilton, P. L., x. 807. 
7. In astral., the interchange of the dignities of 
two planets, owing to each being in the other's 
house or exaltation. =Syn. 1 and 3. Reception, Re- 
ceipt, Recipe. Reception is used of a person or a thing : 
. . ., , , ., , , 
<<., and 6o<., a receptacle ; a reservoir of ", hf Rot a very gracious repion; rwrfjx of a thing 
,, '. .-.-..i ' _ -,.,. "> *" neeytim or, better the receit of news or a letter 
fluid; asaccular or vesicular organ to receive 
and retain a fluid Receptaculum chyll.a dilatation 
as, the reception or, better, the receipt of news or a letter ; 
recipe, in medicine or, latterly, in cooking. We say a re- 
ceipt or recipe for making a cake, a receipt for money paid. 
A room 
the lower extremities and the lacteals of the intestine . 
discharge. Also called receptaculum Pecqueti, cistern or receptive (re-sep tiv), a. 
reservoir of Pecquet, lacteal inc. Receptaculum ganglil 
petrosl, a depression in the lower border of the petrous 
portion of the temporal bone, for the lodgment of the pe- 
trous ganglion. Receptaculum Pecqueti. Same as 
receptaculum chyli. Receptaculum seminls.in zool., a 
spermatheca in the female ; any kind of seminal vesicle 
which may receive semen from the male and store it up. 
See cut under Xemataidea. 
[<OF. rece^ti/ = Sp. 
Pg. recepth'o = It. rieettiro, recettivo = G. re- 
ceptir, < NL. 'receptivus, < L. recipere, pp. recep- 
tus, receive: see receive.] Having the quality of 
or capacity for receiving, admitting, or taking 
in; able to hold or contain. 
. 
receptaryt (res'ep-ta-ri), a. and . [= OF. 
rectntaire = Sp. recetario = It. ricettario, a 
book of prescriptions or receipts, < ML. *re- 
ceptarius, adj. (as a noun receptarius, m., a 
receiver, collector), < recepta, a receipt, pre- 
scription: see receipt."] I. a. Commonly re- 
ceived or accepted but not proved ; uncertain. 
[Rare.] 
Baptista Porta, in whose works, although there be con- 
tained many excellent things, and verified upon his own 
experience, yet are there many also receptary and such as 
will not endure the test Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., i. 8. 
U. M. 1. A collection of receipts. 
Receptaire |F.], a receptary: a note of physical receits. 
Cotgravc. 
2. A thing commonly received but not proved ; 
an assumption ; a postulate. [Rare.] 
Various Forms of Receptacle (r). 
a. Dandelion (Taraxacum officinal?, \ o, Frafaria elatior (lon- 
gitudinal section) ; c, Clcome ifttefrtfol ta (longitudinal section) ; a 
Geranium maculatum ; e, Rosa rtibipiriosa (longitudinal section) 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., To the Reader, 
receptibility (re-sep-ti-bil'i-ti), n. [< F. recep- 
tibilite = Pg. recepHUlidade = It. recettibilita ; 
as receptible + -ity (see -bility).] 1. The qual- 
ity of being receptible; receivableness. 
The peripatetick matter is a pure unactuated power, 
and this conceited vacuum a mere receptibility. 
Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xvi. 
2f. Something that may be received or be- 
,.-,-. , lieved in. Imp. Diet. 
*L an t 1 u r tf C 2 n j e '_ thea ; xis i orrachi8 receptible (re-sep'ti-bl), a. [< OF. receptible 
LL. recepti- 
borne : the Liuneean and usual name : same as 
the more specific and proper torus of De Can- 
dolle and the thalamus of Tournefort. The recep- 
tacle varies in size and texture. In form it may be convex 
or conical (as most oft ), elongated, as in Magnolia, or con- 
cave, as in the rose ; it may develop into a stipe, gynobase 
disk, carpophore, or hypanthium (see these words), or it 
may greatly enlarge in fruit, as in the strawberry. As be- 
longing to a single flower, sometimes termed proper recep 
tacle. (ft) l n an inflorescence, the axis or rachis receptible (re-sep'ti-bl), a. [< 
f a head or other short dense cluster; most = Pg. receptiiiel = It. recettibile, 
The soul being in this sort, as it is active, perfected by 
love of that infinite good, shall, as it is receptive, be also 
perfected with those supernatural passions of joy, peace, 
and delight. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 11. 
To acquire knowledge is to receive an object within the 
sphere of our consciousness. The acquisitive faculty may 
therefore, also, be called a receptive faculty. 
Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xxi. 
I am somehow receptive of the great soul. . . . More 
and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me. 
Emerson, Essays, 1st ser. , p. 289. 
The outer layer of rods and cones (bacillary) is un- 
doubtedly the true receptive layer. Le Conte, Sight, p. 58. 
Receptive power. See poweri. Receptive spot, in 
bot., the hyaline spot in an oosphere at which the male 
gamete enters. Ooebel. 
receptiveness (re-sep'tiv-nes), n. Power or 
readiness to receive ; receptivity. 
Many of her opinions . . . seemed too decided under 
every alteration to have been arrived at otherwise than by 
a wifely receptiveneis. Oeorge Eliot, Daniel Deronda, ill. 
[= F. recey- 
receptmta(t-)s, < 
receptivus, receptive : see receptive."] The state 
or property of being receptive ; ability to re- 
ceive or take in ; specifically, a natural passive 
power of the mind. 
We call sensibility the receptivity of the soul, or its power 
of receiving representations whenever it is in any wise af- 
fected. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, tr. by Muller, p. 51. 
Objectivity, with subjectivity, causativity, plasticity, re- 
ceptivity, and several other kindred terms, have come into 
vogue, during the two last generations, through the influ- 
ence of German philosophy and aesthetics. 
F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 308. 
In our social system, so marked by the dovetailing of 
classes, the quality of receptivity for these influences . 
, , , j jj. ^^ '*&' "WJJVIVM j.v. , vuvvvtwiv, \ _i_j j_j, i vixftbt VJinaoeo, tile ljuaiitj ui teix^n*VM,H lui LIICBC iiiiiucii^cn ... 
ten, tne expanded disk-like summit of the pe- bilis, that may be acquired again, recoverable, '" raised to its maximum. Gladstone, Gleanings, I. 46. 
duncle in Composites (dandelion, etc. ), on which < L. recipere, pp. receptus, acquire, recover, re- receptoryt (re-sep'to-ri), n. [< LL. receptorius, 
are borne the florets of the head, surrounded by ceive: see receive.] Capable of or suited for fit for receiving (neut. receptorium, a place of 
i involucre of bracts; a clmauthium. In con- being received ; receivable. Imp. Diet. shelter), < L. recipere, pp. receptus, receive: 
trast with the above, sometimes called common reception (re-sep'shon), n. [< ME. reception see receive.] A receptacle. Holland, 
receptacle, (c) In an ovary, same as placen to, 4. 
(d) Among cryptogams- ' 
class, the placenta. 
one of the umbrella . 
lus, upon which the reproductive organs are 
receive."] 1. The act of receiving by transfer mechanical energy the electrical energy pro- 
