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suscipient, a. and n. Now rare or Obs.|səˈsɪpɪənt|
[ad. L. suscipient-, -ens, pr. pple. of suscipĕre: see susception.]
A. adj.
1. Receiving, recipient.
1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Disc. x. 139 Nothing is required in the person suscipient, and capable of alms, but that he be in..want. a1677Barrow Serm. Acts iv. 24 Wks. 1686 II. 178 [God] effecting miracles..without any preparatory dispositions induced into the suscipient matter. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xv. 528 Care must be taken..of the Lungs, as suscipient, and sometimes constantly productive of the Matter.
b. Disposed to receive, receptive. rare—1.
1815Zeluca I. 13 She instructed her daughter's suscipent youth in the prevalent system [etc.].
2. With of: That takes into its scope.
1655Stanley Hist. Philos. i. (1687) 7/1 These which are the first motions, and suscipient of the second corporal, bring all things into augmentation, and decrease.
B. n. One who receives, a recipient (esp. of a sacrament).
1611W. Sclater Key (1629) 236 To confer grace by force of the very Sacramentall action.., not by the merit..of the suscipient. Ibid. 258 Iudas ministred baptisme sufficient in it selfe, I doubt not also but effectual to the beleeuing suscipient. 1651–3Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 359 Men cannot be worthy suscipients [of the sacraments] unless they do many excellent acts of Vertue. 1660― Duct. Dubit. i. iv. rule 5 §3 The stronger efficient upon the same suscipient should produce the more certain..effect. |