receptibility (reseptibiliti)

[F. récep tibilité = Pg. receptibilidade = It. recettibilità; as receptible + -ity (see -bility ).] 1. The quality of being receptible; receivablene . The per i pate tick matter is a pure unactuated power, and this conceited vacuum a mere receptibility . Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xvi. 21. Something that may be received or believed in. Imp. Dict. receptible (re-sep'ti-bl), a. [ He was right glad of the French King's reception of those Townes from Maximilian. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII., p. 44. 6t. Power or capacity of receiving; receptivity; 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. Milton, P. L., x. 807. 7. In astrol., the interchange of the dignities of two planets, owing to each being in the other's house or exaltation. =Syn. 1 and 3. Reception, Receipt, Recipe. Reception is used of a person or a thing: as, he got a very gracious reception; receipt of a thing: as, the reception or, better, the receipt of news or a letter; recipe, in medicine latterly, in cooking. We say ceipt or recipe for making a cake, a receipt for money paid. reception-room (rē-sep's hon-röm), n. A room for the reception of visitors. receptive (re-sep'tiv), a. [ 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 pa ions of joy, peace, and delight. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 11. To acquire knowledge is to receive an object within the sphere of our consciousne . The acquisitive faculty may therefore, also, be called a receptive faculty. Sir W. Hamilton , Metaph., xxi. More I am somehow receptive of the great soul. and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me. Emerson , E ays, 1st ser., p. 269. The outer layer of rods and cones (bacillary) is undoubtedly the true receptive layer. Le Conte , Sight, p. 58. Receptive power. See power1 . - Receptive spot, in bot ., the hyaline spot in an oösphere at which the male gamete enters. Goebel. receptivene (re-sep'tiv-nes), п. Power or readine to receive; receptivity. Many of her opinions seemed too decided under every alteration to have been arrived at otherwise than by a wifely receptivene . George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, iii. receptivity (re-sep-tiv'i-ti), n. [ = F. récep tivité = G. receptivität , recept i vita ( t- ) s , receptivus , receptive: see recept receptive.] The state or property of being being receptive; receptive; ability to receive or take in; specifically, a natural pa ive power of the mind. We call sensibility the receptivity of the soul, or its power of receiving representations whenever it is in any wise affected. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, tr. by Müller, 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 influence of German philosophy and æsthetics. F. Hall , Mod. Eng., p. 308. In our social system, so marked by the dovetailing of cla es, the quality of receptivity for these influences is raised to its maximum. Gladstone, Gleanings, I. 46. receptoryt (re-sep'tō-ri), n. [ receptor i us , fit for receiving (neut. receptorium , a place of shelter), recipere , pp. recept us , receive: see receive .] A receptacle. Holland .