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received, ppl. a.|rɪˈsiːvd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. a. Generally adopted, accepted, approved as true or good. Chiefly of opinions, customs, etc.; received idea = idée reçue s.v. idée. Cf. also received text s.v. text n.1 1 d.
c1440Promp. Parv. 425/1 Receyvyd, receptus, acceptus. 1542Recorde Gr. Artes 130 b, Procedynge by no grounded reason, but onely by a receaued fourme. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. Annot., I am loth to breake a receiued custome. 1608E. Topsell Serpents 219 Suidas followeth the common received opinion, that the Salamander quencheth the fire. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 69 Very many things..clearly prove it to have been a most received opinion. 1710Steele Tatler No. 164 ⁋4 That Pride and Vanity which naturally arise in the Mind of a received Author. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. i. 15 He defended the received chronology. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. App. 613 Divisions..for which there were no received geographical names. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 94/4 The error he has discovered in the received reference books..deserves special note from all those concerned with the period. Ibid. 20 Mar. 159/1 Her neat and tidy balance sheets are summaries of received ideas into which she ventures to inject no new thought. 1960J. Bayley Characters of Love ii. 52 The appearance of Courtly Love..has left an immense legacy of received ideas about sex and society. 1973Howard Jrnl. XIII. 330 In former days, the received view was accepted more readily and unquestioningly. 1973Times 13 Dec. 13/4 It is a received idea that television is the most powerful medium ever devised. The proposition is hardly ever questioned. 1976E. Maclaren Nature of Belief iv. 39 His formal education may help him to be critical or sceptical about quite a lot of ‘received opinion’.
b. Of language or pronunciation: received pronunciation, the pronunciation of that variety of British English widely considered to be least regional, being originally that used by educated speakers in southern England; also, the ‘accepted’, standard pronunciation of any specified area, Received Standard; Received Standard (English), the spoken language of a linguistic area (usu. Britain) in its traditionally most correct and acceptable form. Hence in other derived uses.
[1818Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. I. 259 According to its most generally received pronunciation, it is more properly a diphthong.] 1869A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. i. 13 The alphabet required for writing the theoretically received pronunciation of literary English. 1874― Ibid. iv. 1095/1 The tip of the tongue for received English is not so advanced towards the teeth or gums, as for the continental sound. 1882― in Trans. Philol. Soc. 21 We say they are dialectal forms of the received down. 1889[see RP s.v. R II. 2 a]. 1890Dialect Notes I. 26 For the study of pronunciation the received spelling is very ill adapted. 1913H. C. Wyld in Mod. Lang. Teaching IX. 261/2 When he speaks of Standard English, he is, I believe, referring to what I now call Received Standard. 1914M. Montgomery in Ibid. X. 11/2 Yet in that country [sc. Germany], as time goes on, a process of assimilation towards a single ‘Received Standard’ is said to be growing more, rather than less, marked. 1932D. Jones Outl. Eng. xviii. 148 In Received English there are six affricates which may be represented phonetically by..diagraphs. 1932S.P.E. Tract xxxvii. 542 These authors..define the ‘Received Pronunciation’ as that of ‘the great public schools, the Universities, and the learned professions’. 1936Trans. Philol. Soc. 80 My own recollection of this opposition to Received Speech is that the dialect speaker acquires a consciousness of ‘correctness’ in speech accompanied by a powerful objection to being caught..‘talking fine’. 1937D. Jones in Le Maître Phonétique Apr.–June (Suppl.), I take the view that foreigners learning English should be free to choose whatever pronunciation they prefer. Many naturally choose what has been termed ‘received’ pronunciation (R.P.), as being a widely understood type of English. 1940J. H. Jagger Eng. in Future i. 15 The influence of the various forms of Modified Standard—to accept Professor Wyld's terms—upon each other and upon Received Standard. 1962A. C. Gimson in R. Quirk Use of Eng. 281 Received Pronunciation, or RP, suggesting..the result of a collective social judgment rather than of a conscious, prescriptive agreement. 1964C. Barber Ling. Change Present-Day Eng. ii. 20 The influence of the mass-media and of mass-education..does not necessarily produce speakers of Received Standard English. 1969S. Potter Changing Eng. i. 14 Other cities, notably Edinburgh and Dublin, have their received pronunciations, and so have other regions of the English-speaking world. 1973G. W. Turner Stylistics v. 147 Even now ‘received pronunciation’ will help its user to obtain credit when ordering goods by telephone. 1974J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy x. 179 There is no such thing as an Oxford accent, since what phoneticians call Received Standard English came into existence without the university's playing any very identifiable part in the process.
2. a. In other senses of receive v.
1575Painter Pal. Pleas. ii. xxxv. (1890) III. 429 The memorye of a receyued good turne. 1707Norris Treat. Humility viii. 345 Health, beauty, strength, &c. are no reasons why we should be proud, as being received endowments. 1895Daily News 19 Dec. 5 The cost of having their received telegrams telephoned..to their offices.
b. Entom. Admitted between other parts.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 332 An insect having a visible Scutellum... a. Rejected... b. Received (Receptum). When it intervenes between the elytra at their base.
Hence reˈceivedness.
a1691Boyle (J.), Others will, upon account of the receivedness of the proposed opinion, think it rather worth to be examined, than acquiesced in. |