receivableness

[Eng. receivable; -ne .] The quality or state of being receivable; receivability. rě-çēive', *re-ceave, *re-ceyve, v . t . [O. Fr. recever (Fr. recevoir ), from Lat. recipio =to receive: re-back, and capio to take; Sp. recibir ; Port. receber; Ital. ricevere .] 1. To take, get, or obtain, as a thing due, offered, sent, paid, given, or communicated; as, to receive a letter, to receive a me age, to receive a reward, . 2. To take in or on; to admit, to hold, to contain; to act as a receptacle for anything. "The basin that receives your guilty blood." Shakesp.: Titus Andronicus, v. 2. 3. To welcome, to acknowledge. "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." John i. 11. 4. To give admittance to; to entertain; to admit in an official capacity. "Abundance fit to honor, and receive Our heavenly stranger." Milton : P. L., v. 315. 5. To take or admit into the mind; to gain the knowledge of; to obtain or acquire intellectually. "His youth will aptly receive it."-Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , iii. 4. 6. To give credence or acceptance to; to allow, acknowledge, or hold as a belief, tradition, custom, . "Long received custom forbidding them to do as they did, there was no excuse to justify their act; unle in the scripture they could show some law, that did license them thus to break a received custom."- Hooker : Eccles. Polity. 7. To perceive by the senses; to become aware of. "Receives not thy nose court-odor from me?" --Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, iv. 4. 8. To be the object of; to experience, to suffer. "Whereby the commonwealth receives distre ." Daniel Civil Wars , iii. 9. To take stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen. rě-çēived, pa . par . or a. [RECEIVE.] rě-çēiv-ěd-ne , s. [Eng. received , -ne .] The quality or state of being generally received, allowed, or acknowledged; general allowance. "Others will, upon account of the received ne of the proposed opinion, think it rather worth to be examined, than acquiesced in."-Boyle.