susceptivity (suseptiviti)

[ Nor can we have any idea of matter which does not imply a natural discerptibility, and susceptivity of various shapes and modifications. Wollaston, Religion of Nature, v. susceptor (su-sep'tor), n. [ susceptor , an undertaker, a contractor, suscipere , pp. sus ceptus : see suscipient .] One who undertakes; a godfather; a sponsor. [Rare.] The church uses to a ign new relations to the catechumens, spiritual fathers, and susceptors. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 117. suscipiency (su-sip'i-en-si), n. [ suscipien ( t ) + -cy.] The quality of being suscipient; susceptibility; reception; admi ion. [Rare.] The a umed chasm between pure intellect and pure sense, between power to conceive and mere suscipiency to perceive. Jour. Spec. Phil . , XIX. 88. suscipient (su-sip'i-ent), a. and n. [L. suscipien(t-)s, ppr. of suscipere , take up, undertake, undergo, receive, sus- , subs- , for sub , under, + capere , take: see capable .] I. a. Receiving; admitting. [Rare.] It was an unmeasurable grace of providence and dispensation which God did exhibit to the wise men, disposing the ministries of his grace sweetly, and by proportion to the capacities of the person suscipient. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), Ι. 48. II. n. One who takes or admits; one who receives. [Rare.] God gives the grace of the sacrament. But... he does not always give it at the instant in which the church gives the sacrament (as if there be a secret impediment in the suscipient ). Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), L. 126.