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susceptive, a.|səˈsɛptɪv|
[ad. med.L. susceptīvus (Thomas Aquinas), f. suscept-, suscipĕre: see prec. and -ive. Cf. It. suscettivo, Sp. susceptivo.]
1. Having the quality of taking or receiving, receptive; in later use esp. disposed to receive and be affected by impressions (= susceptible 2 a).
1548–77Vicary Anat. ix. (1888) 77 The Matrix in woman..is an instrument susceptiue, that is to say, a thing recey[u]ing or taking. 1641Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 22 Oct. xii. 41 We neither had a decisive voyce..nor a deliberative voyce..nor lastly..a susceptive voice, in a body of our own to receive their resolutions. 1674Petty Disc. Dupl. Proportion 130, I might suppose..that Atoms are also Male and Female, and the Active and Susceptive Principles of all things. 1788D. Gilson Serm. viii. 223 All the tender workings of the susceptive breast of Mary. 1802Corry Mem. A. Berkeley 47 This accidental interview made a still deeper impression on the susceptive heart of Lucy. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm. Gen. xi. 21–2 The susceptive and conceptive powers of the understanding. 1874Motley John of Barneveld II. xxii. 404 Impressible, emotional, and susceptive. 1887Sir A. De Vere Ess. Poetry I. 105 He will listen, with the susceptive faith of youth.
2. With of: Having the quality of receiving, disposed or ready to receive (something specified); receptive of; admitting of; affected by, sensitive to: = susceptible 1.
1637Gillespie Engl. Pop. Cerem. iii. iv. 68 They belong to the substance of the worship, and withall are susceptive of coadoration. a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. viii. (1677) 367 He becomes a Creature properly susceptive of a Law, and capable of Rewards and Punishments. a1677Barrow Serm. Rom. xii. 18 Wks. 1687 I. 399 It incenses the people (hugely susceptive of provocation) with a sense of notable injury done. ― Serm. Eph. i. 13 ibid. II. 201 As mankind is naturally susceptive of religious impressions. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. (1724) 78 [Matter] is passive..to the impressions of motion, and susceptive of it. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) II. 588 Rendering the body more susceptive of the ordinary causes of this disease. 1872Morley Voltaire 95 The nature that is susceptive of passion. 1901G. Tyrrell in Life (1912) II. iii. 95 Like a wheelbarrow, I am not susceptive of sustained impetus.
†b. Taking or including within its scope; relative to. Obs. rare—1.
1681J. Owen Enq. Evang. Ch. xi. 221 The Object of it [sc. discipline], as it is Susceptive of Members, is professed Believers; and as it is corrective, it is those who stubbornly deviate from the Rule of Christ.
Hence suˈsceptiveness = next.
1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 157 Men raised by a truer moral susceptiveness above their countrymen. 1907Edin. Rev. Jan. 204 Our insular susceptiveness. |