RECEIVE
RECE'IVE, verb transitive [Latin recipio; re and capio, to take.]1. To take, as a thing offered or sent; to accept. He had the offer of a donation, but he would not receive it.2...
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RECEIVED
RECE'IVED, participle passive Taken; accepted; admitted; embraced; entertained; believed.
RECEIVEDNESS
RECE'IVEDNESS, noun General allowance or belief; as the receivedness of an opinion.
RECEIVER
RECE'IVER, noun1. One who takes or receives in any manner.2. An officer appointed to receive public money; a treasurer.3. One who takes stolen goods from a thief, knowing them t...
RECEIVING
RECE'IVING, participle present tense Taking; accepting; admitting; embracing; believing; entertaining.
RECELEBRATE
RECEL'EBRATE, verb transitive [re and celebrate.] To celebrate again.
RECELEBRATED
RECEL'EBRATED, participle passive Celebrated anew.
RECELEBRATING
RECEL'EBRATING, participle present tense Celebrating anew.
RECELEBRATION
RECELEBRA'TION, noun A renewed celebration.
RECENCY
RE'CENCY, noun [Latin recens.]1. Newness; new state; late origin; as the recency of a wound or tumor.2. Lateness in time; freshness; as the recency of a transaction.
RECENSE
RECENSE, verb transitive recens'. [Latin recenso; re and censeo.]To review; to revise.
RECENSION
RECEN'SION, noun [Latin recensio.] Review; examination; enumeration.
RECENT
RE'CENT, adjective [Latin recens.]1. New; being of late origin or existence.The ancients believed some parts of Egypt to be recent and formed by the mud discharged into the sea ...
RECENTLY
RE'CENTLY, adverb Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as advices recently received; a torn recently built or repaired; an isle recently discovered.
RECENTNESS
RE'CENTNESS, noun Newness; freshness; lateness of origin or occurrence; as the recentness of alluvial land; the recentness of news or of events.
RECEPTACLE
RECEP'TACLE, noun [Latin receptaculum, from receptus, recipio.]1. A place or vessel into which something is received or in which it is contained, as a vat, a tun, a hollow in th...
RECEPTACULAR
RECEPTAC'ULAR, adjective In botany, pertaining to the receptacle or growing on it, as the nectary.
RECEPTARY
REC'EPTARY, noun Thing received. [Not in use.]
RECEPTIBILITY
RECEPTIBIL'ITY, noun The possibility of receiving.
RECEPTION
RECEP'TION, noun [Latin receptio.]1. The act of receiving; in a general sense; as the reception of food into the stomach, or of air into the lungs.2. The state of being received...
RECEPTIVE
RECEP'TIVE, adjective Having the quality of receiving or admitting what is communicated.Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies.
RECEPTIVITY
RECEPTIV'ITY, noun The state or quality of being receptive.
RECEPTORY
RECEP'TORY, adjective Generally or popularly admitted or received. [Not in use.]
RECESS
RECESS', noun [Latin recessus, from recedo. See Recede.]1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; as the recess of the tides.2. A withdrawing from public business or notice; ...
RECESSION
RECES'SION, noun [Latin recessio.]1. The act of withdrawing, retiring or retreating.2. The act of receding from a claim, or of relaxing a demand.3. A cession or granting back; a...
RECHANGE
RECHANGE, verb transitive [re and change.] To change again.
RECHANGED
RECHANGED, participle passive Changed again.