recipe (resipe)

t. [L., impv. of recipere, take: see receive.] Take: a Latin imperative used (commonly abbreviated R. or R) at the beginning of physicians' prescriptions, as formerly and in part still written in Latin. recipe (res'i-pe), n. [= OF. recipe, F. récipé = Sp. récipe = Pg. It. recipe, a recipe, He deals all With spirits, he; he will not hear a word Of Galen or his tedious recipes . B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. 2. A prescribed formula in general, but especially one having some relation or resemblance to a medical prescription; a receipt. 5000 as a nerve, in an ordinary sense: correlated with libero motor and dir i go motor. See motor. Each afferent nerve is a recipio - motor agent. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 18. reciprocal (rē-sip'rō-kal), a. and n. [NL.as if * reciprocal is, It. Pg. reciproco = Sp. reciproco perhaps lit. 'moving backward and forward,' = OF. reciproque , > obs. E. reciprock ); The stream of Jordan, south of their going over, was not supplied with any reciprocal or refluous tide out of the Dead Sea. Fuller , Pisgah Sight, II. i. 17. ( Davies , under refluous .) Obedient to the moon, he spent his date In course reciprocal , and had his fate Link'd to the mutual flowing of the seas. Milton , Second Epitaph on Hobson the Carrier. 2. Mutually exchanged or exchangeable; concerning or given or owed by each (of two or more) with regard to the other or others: as, reciprocal aid; reciprocal rights, duties, or obligations; reciprocal love or admiration. Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. The Liturgy or service acts between God and man. Shak., Lear, iv. 6. 267.. consist eth of the reciprocal Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 378. I take your gentle offer, and withal Yield love again for love reciprocal . Beau , and Fl . , Knight of Burning Pestle, i. 2. The king a ured me of a reciprocal affection to the king my master, and of my particular welcome to his court. Lord Herbert of Cherbury , Life (ed. Howells), p. 129. The liberty of the enemy's fishermen in war has been protected by many French ordinances, and the English observed a reciprocal indulgence. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, § 170. There is much the same relation of reciprocal dependence between judgment and reasoning as between conception and judgment. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 414. 3. Having an interchangeable character or recon cord ant; agreeing. Knowledge and power are reciprocal . reciprocate quotient is said to be the reciprocal. Thus, the reciprocal of 4 is, and conversely the reciprocal of is 4; the reciprocal of 2 is, and that of a + x is 1/ ( a + x ). A fraction made by inverting the terms of another fraction is called the reciprocal of that other fraction: thus, the reciprocal of 4.- Polar reciprocals. Same as re is ciprocal polars. See I. reciprocality (re-sip-rō-kal'i-ti), n. [ An acknowledged reciprocality in love sanctifies every little freedom. Richardson , Clari a Harlowe, II. i. reciprocally (re-sipʻro-kal-i), adv . 1. In a reciprocal manner; with reciprocating action or effect; altern a tingly; interchangeably; correspondingly. The Aristo tel i ans believe water and air to be re ciprocally transmutable. Boyle , Works, II. 342. Virtue and sentiment reciprocally a ist each other. Goldsmith , Cultivation of Taste. Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And these reciprocally those again. Cowper, Progre of Erroг, 1. 565. 2. In a reciprocal ratio or proportion; inversely. Thus, in bodies of the same weight the density is reciprocally as the magnitude that is, the greater the magnitude the le in the same proportion the density, and the le the magnitude the greater in the same proportion the density. In geometry two magnitudes are said to be reciprocally proportional to two others when one of the first pair is to one of the second as the remaining one of the second is to the remaining one of the first.