receptionn.
/rᵻˈsɛpʃn/, U.S. /rəˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, /riˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/ 1.
a. Astrology. The fact of either of two planets being received into the other's house, exaltation, or other dignity. Frequently in in reception.
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the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > influence > planet as > situation of > reception
receptiona1393
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 1962 (MED) He loketh the conjunccions, He loketh the recepcions, His signe, his houre, his ascendent.
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. ii. 65 Venus..and Mars..in mutual reception of each other..assure a fortunate combination to Hymen.
1679 J. Moxon Math. made Easie 128 The first is a Reception by House (which is the best and strongest). The second is a Reception by Triplicity.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xv. 98 Will not this let in all the Vanities of the Genethliaque pretension? Their Directions, Receptions, &c.
1726 S. Penseyre New Guide Astrol. 6 If the Lord of the seventh House is in Opposition to the Lord of the Ascendant, instead of Love from her, he can expect nothing but Affronts, Ingratitude, and downright Hatred, unless the said Planets were in mutual Reception by Sign and House.
1785 G. Mensforth Young Student's Guide Astrol. 257 He that hath many planets in reception, or beholding each other by a good aspect, cannot fail of having many friends.
1828 ‘Raphael’ Man. Astrol. 200 Reception is when two planets are mutually posited in each other's essential dignities.
1886 W. C. E. Serjeant Astrologer's Guide 5 When a planet weakens itself, that is, when it is in the Seventh House from its own, Feral, or not in Reception.
1937 V. Robson Electional Astrol. xiii. 135 Let the lord of the seventh apply to the lord of the ascendant or be disposed of, or in reception with, that planet.
1991 C. Mansall Discover Astrol. vii. 143/1 Obviously there is far more that could be included since every planet in the T/Square connects with a personal planets: the Sun in the 1st house, Mars in Mercury-ruled Virgo in 10th, Uranus in Mutual Reception with the Moon.
2004 S. Miller Year Ahead 2005 429 A ‘mutual reception’ happens when two planets travel in the sign the other one rules.
b. The action of receiving a person into a place, company, state, etc. Also: the fact of being received.
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society > society and the community > [noun] > action of receiving or fact of being received
receptionc1525
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun] > reception
catchingc1325
receptionc1525
interessing1656
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > letting in or fact of being let in > specifically of a person to a place
receipt1479
receptionc1525
receptation1574
to give receptacle1620
recep.1918
c1525 Rule St. Francis (Faust.) in J. S. Brewer & R. Howlett Monumenta Franciscana (1858) I. 574 (MED) That he be of such condition that his reception maye be grete edification to the peple.
1650 O. Cromwell Let. 13 Dec. in Writings & Speeches (1939) (modernized text) II. 369 Making way for the reception of professed malignants, both in their Parliament and Army.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 205 All hope is lost Of my reception into grace. View more context for this quotation
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 14 This happy port affords our wand'ring fleet A month's reception.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. vi. 88 The Count gave orders for the north apartments to be..prepared for the reception of Ludovico.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. i. 2 The great palace..had been prepared for the reception of another tenant.
1902 Times 13 Jan. 9/4 The three remand homes at Pentonville-road, Harrow-road, and Camberwell-green were opened for the reception of children on January 1.
1986 Stone's Justices' Man. (ed. 118) III. v. 6070 On the discharge of the defaulter the governor..of the prison..shall send to the clerk of the court a certificate showing the dates of the defaulter's reception and discharge.
2006 M. Wentzel & K. Tlabela in P. Kok Migration in S. & Southern Afr. i. iv. 81 The South African parliament passed the Refugees Act..in 1998..to provide for the reception of asylum seekers into the country.
c. The action of receiving, or fact of being received, in a formal or ceremonious manner.
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society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > reception of visitors > in a ceremonious manner
reception1607
1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 998 His [sc. Roger of Bellegarde's] Pattent was read in the Parliament of Dijon, the Cittie receiued him with all sorts of honours, and went to fetch him at the Carthusians where he made his abode, attending the preparation for his reception.
1618 Declar. Demeanor Sir W. Raleigh 59 His Letters recommendatory for his safe conduct and reception to the Gouernour of Calis, and to send a Gentleman expresly that should attend and meete him there.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 6 We stayed above six weeks, in expectation of the Great Duke's orders for our reception.
1717 T. Tudway in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 311 Bentley's baulks and blunders about the king's reception.
a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 484 His reception is here recorded on a Medal, in which one of the Ensigns presents him his hand.
1763 C. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 221 This order was obeyed with alacrity: On pretence of preparing the English navy for the Prince's reception, Buckingham departed hastily.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. vii. 69 Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception.
1886 Manch. Examiner 14 Jan. 4/7 Lord Salisbury has fixed Tuesday next for the reception of a deputation from the Irish Defence Union.
1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 13 Dec. 4/1 Reception into Corpus Christi R-C Church, Clifton on Wednesday 15th December 6.45pm. Requiem Mass on Thursday 16th December at 9.15am.
2002 T. J. Buckley What binds Marriage? (rev ed.) vi. 147 The reception of divorced and remarried non-Catholics into full communion with the Catholic Church.
d. A party or formal social gathering (now esp. after a wedding) at which a person or persons are honoured or welcomed, and at which guests may be formally received; a group of people gathered for this purpose.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > ceremonious
reception1847
society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > a reception of visitors
conversation1740
at-home1745
conversazione1782
reception1847
afternoon1882
meet-and-greet1960
1847 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 753 When Helena prepared for the reception, she felt as though the pearls that encircled her slender throat were stones of ponderous weight.
1865 Ld. Broughton Recoll. Long Life (1911) VI. ix. 54 On March 5 [1842] I dined at Lord Palmerston's... Lady Palmerston had a reception afterwards.
1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) lxiv. 1680 The orthodox wedding breakfast seems likely to become a thing of the past, so much has it been superseded by the tea and reception which usually follow afternoon weddings.
1990 P. P. Read On Third Day xii. 120 They..introduced themselves filing past in a line like guests at a reception.
2007 S. Puleo Boston Italians 236 The then senator invited him..to a reception to honor Italian ambassador Manlio Brosio upon his visit to Boston.
e. Short for reception room n. at Compounds 1. Cf. recep. n. 1.Found typically in advertisements. Frequently in singular with plural agreement.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > reception room
guest-hallc1325
public room1617
common chamber1653
salon1699
reception room1788
majlis1821
mandarah1836
guesten hall1864
guesten chamber1870
recep.1900
salone1902
reception1909
salotto1918
1909 Daily Graphic 26 July 16/1 (advt.) Three reception, four bedrooms, kitchen, and usual offices.
1929 Daily News 13 Sept. 11/5 Semi-detached Houses... Attractive Elevations... Large hall, 2 reception, 3 bedrooms.
1977 Evening Post (Nottingham) 27 Jan. 14/3 (advt.) An extremely good two double bedroomed semi-detached house with garage, two receptions, kitchen, bathroom, gardens.
2001 Sunday Express (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Property section) 29 This Grade II-listed manor house..has six bedrooms, three receptions, a conservatory and a wine cellar.
f. Usually without article and with capital initial. A place where guests, clients, patients, or visitors report on arrival at a hotel, office, hospital, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > reception room > in an hotel, etc.
reception1917
1917 E. Fenwick Diary 13 Nov. in Elsie Fenwick in Flanders (1981) 183 The reception was a regular Hades of women and children and men..all terribly wounded.
1958 ‘J. Castle’ & A. Hailey Flight into Danger viii. 107 Those cars..were promptly waved..to parking spaces well clear of the entrance to Reception.
1969 D. Clark Nobody's Perfect iii. 110 Not one gets past me or Bert. We hold them in reception, phone up the one they want to see, and make them wait till they're fetched.
1996 Caterer & Hotelkeeper 21 Nov. 12/3 Reception is the nerve centre of a hotel, for taking messages, for fast check-in and check-out, for amendments to bookings and for direct relationships between the client and the hotel.
2006 C. Evans & L. Evans Thailand 36 Most hotel rooms have personal safes; if yours does not, the hotel will most likely have a safe at reception.
g. Australian, British, and South African = reception class n. at Compounds 2. Frequently attributive.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > form or class
form1560
first forma1602
remove1718
shell1736
sixth-form1807
lower sixth (form)1818
pettya1827
grade1835
the twenty1857
baby class1860
standard1862
nursery class1863
primer1885
reception class1902
sixth form1938
reception1975
1975 Oxf. Rev. Educ. 1 236 A chance arose to mount a further programme in the reception year, when one of the infant school involved..agreed to try out the individual language scheme with some of its pupils.
1977 Oxf. Rev. Educ. 3 279 The effect of the growing numbers at reception level are felt lower down, as nursery children cannot move up.
1988 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 15 Dec. I took my class of 27 reception children, plus five adults, to the city to place gifts under the Christmas tree in Rundle Mall.
2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Apr. 27 She teaches reception, year one and year two in classes of up to 30.
2. † b. In plural. Sums of money received, receipts. Obsolete. rare.
a. The action or fact of receiving or acquiring something.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > [noun]
latching1362
receivinga1382
receipt1421
reception1460
reset1487
receival1637
recipience1818
1460 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1837) VI. 303 (MED) It appereth þat þey..in continent after þe recepcion of þies our lettres doo make peasible liveree of þe said castell.
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) 82 The Ioye that blanchardyn had made at the recepcion of the present that she had sent vnto hym.
1616 T. Roe in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. iv. xvi. 585 He is not allowed so good ranke nor presence in Court as I..neither did the King do so much honour in reception of his Masters Letter, not vouchsafing once to giue the Persian any title of Maiesty, as of my Soueraigne Lords.
1689 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 256 Upon ye Reception thereof, I informed the said David Lloyd, and delivered it to him.
1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §128. 149 A Man Born Blind wou'd not, at first reception of his Sight, think the things he saw were of the same Nature with the Objects of Touch.
1793 E. Gibbon Let. 9 Sept. (1956) III. 165 Within an hour after the reception of your last, I drew my pen for the purpose of a reply.
1834 H. Martineau Moral Many Fables i. 5 The prospect of the wealth which awaits man's reception.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 10/1 The reception and despatch of the boxed fruit.
1997 M. Sahlins in A. D. Schrift Logic of Gift ii. 79 The delay between the reception of the gift by the third person and the repayment.
2003 W. A. Strange in R. Pope Honouring Past & shaping Future ii. vii.116 Luke's narrative of the composition, despatch and reception of the Jerusalem letter must..have been built around elements familiar to him and to his readers.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > takings or receipts
receipta1325
receiptc1390
receptions1514
takings?1593
provenance1628
taking ins1644
take1850
encashment1861
1514 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 67 The wyche nobyll ys caste yn ye cownte of the recepco [n] is.
3.
a. The action of taking in or receiving something, physically or spatially. Also in extended use. Now rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > taking in
taking in1456
reception?a1475
introreceptiona1660
intake1808
intaking1905
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 425 Apuleus rehersethe..that same thynge to haue happede to hym thro the recepcion of suche venome.
a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 73 The operacion of the strength vegetatif in composicion of man-is kynd, is in reception of the sperme in the woman-is privete.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 574 There are many parts of the Eares which serue as well for the reception of the sound into them, as also for the intension thereof.
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 319 Some Divines say—That Faith is Physically a Passive Reception of Christ himself.
1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed ii. 268 By that connexion of his operations, shewing the reception of his essence.
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 48. 312 Malefactors..preserve as it were a Corner of their Souls for the reception of Pity.
1798 C. B. Brown Wieland i. 5 His mind was in a state peculiarly fitted for the reception of devotional sentiments.
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Therm.., a pedestal increasing upwards for the reception of a bust.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 569/2 The canvas employed in the manufacture of floor-cloth..is prepared for the reception of paint by a coating of size.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. x. 509 Two smaller towers, for the reception of the bells, were designed.
1930 Engineering 22 Aug. 221/3 The cyclone filter consisted of a cylindrical vessel fitted with..a conical bottom for the reception and discharge of the deposited dust.
1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) II. 817 The rostrum [in Coleoptera] has a groove or scrobe on either side for the reception of the antenna.
b. The action of receiving mentally; comprehension.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [noun] > understanding, comprehension
knowing1340
taking1395
apprehending1398
feela1400
conceitc1405
perceitc1460
comprehension?15..
intellection?1526
apprension1589
making-outa1601
reception1612
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perceivancy1649
comprehending1668
recognition1749
prehension1836
prension1837
wavelength1925
1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke 126 Prompt apprehension and reception of general rules.
1795 Analyt. Rev. 20 195 Want of universality in the knowledge and reception of Christianity.
1832 J. Abercrombie Inq. conc. Intellect. Powers iv. ii. 300 (heading) Of the acquisition and reception of facts.
1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 180 The absence of a faculty of reception.
1867 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 441 Culture, sanity, power of grasp and reception, Mlle. de Guerin hesitating at the brink of Hugo is assuredly as pitiable as any Puritan shuddering on the verge of Shakespeare.
1906 J. Brierley Religion & Experience xxxiii. 296 There are two factors that are incessantly weaving man; the one is his faculty of reception, the other his volition.
1989 Lit 1 i–ii. 2 It thinks to win one case by destroying evidence for another, dismissing or minimizing those ‘higher’ or more ‘resistant’ forms of address upon which the stratified sociolects of a culture depend, its very habits of reception.
2002 G. S. Stent Paradoxes of Free Will ix. 145 The analysis of the production and reception of human language appears to be heading for the same conceptual impasse.
4.
a. Usually with qualifying adjective. The action of receiving, or fact of being received, in a certain manner.
(a) Of people.
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society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [noun] > reception of visitors
recueil1490
entertainment1563
entreatya1569
reception1615
receipt1664
entertaininga1687
treat1691
accoil1814
recep.1918
1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 1090 The kind reception they gaue vnto Mathew.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 20 May (1972) VII. 129 My wife..much pleased with the reception she had.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3808/7 The Imperial Forces were in so good a Posture, that the French would meet with a warm Reception.
a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 545 Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, gave him a very kind reception.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 195 The discourse turned on the reception which they were to expect from their Provost.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xiv. 205 He found in the Netherlands a scarcely more cordial reception than in France.
1954 W. K. Wimsatt Verbal Icon i. 26 Showing hospitality to strangers—or the contrary custom of eating them, the reception of the Cyclops rather than that of Alcinous.
1988 B. Aldiss Forgotten Life (1989) ii. 44 There were six of us arriving at 2.a.m. this morning, exhausted, to a not very friendly reception.
2003 M. A. Campbell Secret Comm. v. 102 Your reception was tame compared to what Carl gets when he comes home.
(b) Of things.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun] > reception > of ideas, proposals, etc.
receptance1643
reception1646
1646 H. Hammond View New Directorie (new ed.) i. 54 The leafes which have been spent in this search..might perhaps have been better employed; Yet will it not be unreasonable to expect a favourable reception of them, when 'tis considered, that by this meanes a farther labour is spared.
1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. Pref. sig. A2 It met at the first representation with no favourable reception.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 185 When it was brought into the House [the bill] found a better reception than was expected.
1718 Free-thinker No. 17. 1 Novelty meets but with cold Reception.
1745 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 7 Whatever shall be laid before me for the Welfare of this Province, will meet with a favorable Reception.
1803 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 236 They only have an interest in..procuring a good reception for his name.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 372 His inventions, therefore, found no favourable reception.
1914 Evening News 8 Oct. 2/1 It is ‘up to’ the American film trade to see that the evidence of the camera gets a fair reception.
1981 H. Carpenter W. H. Auden (1983) ii. ii. 275 His music was getting only a mixed reception in England and he was not finding enough work there.
2004 J. Middendorp Dutch Type 205/1 His ideas were not given a very warm reception.
b. Theatre. The receiving of a performer or speaker by an audience; esp. an ovation given to a performer on taking the stage. Cf. recep. n. 2.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [noun] > for performer on appearing
reception1839
recep.1918
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxix. 284 Lenville has done nothing but second business, and, instead of having a reception every night as he used to have, they have let him come on as if he was nobody.
1847 F. A. Kemble Let. 15 Feb. in Rec. Later Life (1882) III. 160 I wish I could avoid my ‘reception’, as it is called, because any loud sound shakes me from head to foot.
1952 B. Webb Diaries I. 44 The audience, after giving him a great reception, settled down to be amused and flattered.
1989 M. Meyer Not Prince Hamlet xii. 165 The audience rose and cheered; never have I heard a reception equal to that.
2000 S. Mackey & S. Cooper Drama & Theatre Stud. (rev. ed.) p. xii Theatre is a performance art focused upon audience reception.
c. The receiving of or the ability to receive signals sent by telegraphy, telephony, or broadcasting; the quality of such signals as received.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > reception of signals
reception1843
1843 District School Jrnl. N.Y. July 123/2 A simple and compact piece of mechanism..which at the will of the operator at the point of communication, is made to record, at the point of reception, legible characters, on a roll of paper.
1896 Guardian 22 June 5/6 The offices of the Castle Line Company remained open all yesterday for the reception of telegrams.
1919 R. Stanley Text-bk. Wireless Telegr. I. 173 Irregular noises are produced in the receiver telephones which seriously interfere with the reception of the regular signals.
1968 A. Marin Clash of Distant Thunder (1969) ix. 63 We can get the Television Français... The reception is not very good.
1972 Times 21 Sept. (Ireland Suppl.) p. ii At that time television was only just getting off the ground..and many areas still did not have reception.
2003 Rough Guide to Digital Stuff 195 You can add Freeview digital reception to any existing TV set for under £100 with a set-top box.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > capturing > recapturing
retaking1436
reception1622
recaption1655
recapture1676
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 44 Hee was right glad of the French Kings reception of those Townes from Maximilian.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun]
receivera1398
resetc1400
receipta1425
receptaclec1425
repository1485
receptorya1500
pot1503
container?1504
hold1517
containing?1541
continent?1541
receptable1566
nest1589
conceptacle1611
keep1617
house1625
reception1646
inholder1660
conceptaculum1691
penholder1815
holder1833
carrier1855
compactum1907
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 172 Ascending first into a capsulary reception of the breast bone. View more context for this quotation
1698 G. Stanhope tr. Thomas à Kempis Christian's Pattern iv. xii. 324 Make me room in thy Heart, and let it be a clean and fit Reception for so pure a Guest.
7. † a. An idea received or accepted without evidence of its truth; an assumption. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > supposition, surmise > taking for granted, presumption > [noun] > that which is presumed
presupposal1573
presupposition1579
expectation1585
presuppose1592
positum1605
assumpsita1628
assumptiona1628
prolepsis1637
reception1646
hypothesis1655
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 26 Our mature and secondary enquiries are forced to quit those receptions . View more context for this quotation
1668 J. Glanvill Plus Ultra xvi. 116 Did not most men all their lives worship the first thing they saw in the morning of their days, and ever after obstinately adhere to those unexamined Receptions.
b. The action of accepting or admitting; acceptance, admittance, approbation. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > [noun]
willOE
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acceptationa1425
allowing1435
approof1439
approving1523
comprobation1529
owning1535
approbation1548
good liking?1560
suffrage1563
acceptance1569
liking1569
pleasure1569
allowment1570
approvance1592
probatum1606
approvement1615
sufferage1622
the light of a person's countenance1649
reception1660
receivedness1661
imprimatur1672
approval1690
sanction1738
go-down1753
rubber stamping1920
the mind > language > statement > acceptance, reception, or admission > [noun]
acceptationa1425
admission?1430
allowancec1443
receipta1500
admittinga1504
admittance1534
confession1546
acceptance1569
entertain1616
conceding1656
reception1660
1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 15 If they had not been the word of God before the Church received them..their reception and tradition could never have made them so.
1669 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 97 A virtuous mind appearing with more lustre in the rejection than in the reception of good turns.
a1732 F. Atterbury Serm. Several Occas. (1734) I. 186 God never intended to compell, but only to persuade us into a Reception of Divine Truth.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 15 In those of our English courts wherein a reception has been allowed to the civil and canon laws.
1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. ii. xii. 101 If..I shall thus contribute to the more general reception of the great outlines of this system.
1867 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 1st. Ser. II. 12 We refuse to submit to the demonstrations by which it thrusts itself on our reception.
1881 H. D. MacLeod Elem. Econ. I. ii. i. 160 The real difficulty which impedes the true comprehension of the subject is very similar to that which for a considerable time obstructed the reception of the Newtonian doctrine of gravitation on the Continent.
1950 Indiana Law Jrnl. 25 546 The reception in evidence of depositions..did not violate the articles of war.
2004 M. Idel in A. P. Coudert & J. S. Shoulson Hebraica Veritas? ii. 43 The wide reception of Pico's view of man contributed to the idea that he originated this way of thinking.
c. Christian Church (chiefly Anglican Church). The formal process whereby a proposed development of doctrine is debated and trialled to determine whether it should be accepted; the trial period during which such a development is introduced.
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1985 Church Times 7 June 5/3 I cannot see the Congregation's advisers and consultants being ready to accept what the hierarchy has said about ‘reception’.
1988 Daily Tel. 30 July 2/2 The commission will also be charged..with monitoring the process of what is referred to in Church circles as ‘reception’, the trial period in which the Church lives with an experiment to decide whether it is or is not the will of God.
1996 T. P. Rausch Catholicism at Dawn Third Millennium iii. 50 The ecclesial practice of the ‘reception’ of doctrine is further evidence of a mutuality or interdependence between hierarchical authority and the body of the faithful in the formulation of doctrine.
2003 Times (Nexis) 16 Oct. 8 His commission introduced the concept of an ‘ongoing process of reception’ for women priests.
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the world > space > [noun] > a containing space > capacity
receivablenessc1443
capacity1481
content1491
receipt1565
continenta1608
capability1616
receptibility1651
gauge1655
reception1667
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 807 Natures Law, By which all Causes..To the reception of thir matter act. View more context for this quotation
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 274 The Hospital..is of great reception. It maintaines two thousand sick and decrepid in it.
9. The action of receiving stolen goods or contraband in full knowledge of the illegality of the transaction. Cf. receive v. 9d.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > receiving or possessing stolen goods > [noun]
receivinga1382
resetment1449
receipt1483
reception1780
hand-habend1828
fencing1851
1780 London Mag. Sept. 423/2 A great coat, in which were two large pockets, or rather sacks, for the reception of contraband goods.
1839 1st Rep. Comm. establishing Constabulary Force 93 I found..a general depôt for the reception of goods stolen on the canal and along that district.
1896 I. Abrahams Jewish Life Middle Ages vi. 105 The law showed no disposition to protect its subjects by making the reception of stolen goods..either difficult or dangerous.
1992 N. A. T. Hall Slave Society Danish W. Indies v. 97 The law deemed the reception and handling of stolen goods as criminal as the theft itself.
2002 R. Provost Internat. Human Rights & Humanitarian Law i. ii. 84 This case, dealing with the reception of stolen goods, refers both to the Penal Code and to the War Crime Ordinance of 28 August 1944.
10. American Football. The act of legally catching a forward pass; an instance of this, esp. as a statistical measure.
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1930 Los Angeles Times 19 Sept. ii. 10/6 Backfield aspirants and ends were drilled on..pass reception yesterday.
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 5- c/3 Bell is expected to have a chance at several receptions, with two top passing quarterbacks on hand.
1991 Street & Smith's College Football 36/2 The top college prospect in Northern California could be Amani Tooner, who had 35 receptions for 793 yards and 13 TDs.
2007 A. Swofford Exit A 57 A twenty-yard reception. A fifteen-yard reception. A seven-yard toss to the right end for a touchdown.
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reception area n.
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1902 Times 7 July 6/2 The St. James's Theatre was very prettily decorated.., and even on such a hot night..the spaciousness of the reception area kept it quite fairly cool.
1939 Times 2 Nov. 8/7 While anxiety was expressed about the effects of breaking up home life, tributes were paid to householders and others in the reception areas for their friendly helpfulness.
2006 Saltscapes (Canada) Sept.–Oct. 34/2 The Algonquin may be grand—a tuxedo-clad maestro twinkled [sic] the ivories in the reception area.
reception camp n.
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1917 Van Wert (Ohio) Daily Bull. 20 Aug. 1/3 On the route from the reception camp to the training camps,..there have been established six infirmaries and rest stations.
1997 T. Mackintosh-Smith Yemen (1999) v. 118 Perhaps a quarter of the cars on Yemen's roads belonged to these refugees.., and reception camps were crowded and insanitary.
reception clerk n.
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1887 Times 1 Apr. 15/4 (advt.) Hotel bureau.—Required, for first-class West-end hotel, a thoroughly experienced reception clerk.
1934 T. F. Tweed Blind Mouths ii. 11 The reception-clerk, who had been placidly reading his newspaper, dropped it and became suddenly alert.
2000 Washington Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. e4 The suggestion from reception clerks at too many hotels that an early arrival should take a walk.
reception counter n.
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1916 E. P. Oppenheim Kingdom of Blind 46 Thomson..made his way to the Ritz Hotel. He addressed himself to the head clerk of the reception counter.
1998 J. Holms Bad Vibes vi. 76 Frau Richter appeared at the reception counter, as ramrod straight and po-faced as ever.
reception day n.
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1831 Times 18 Jan. 1/6 Sunday is the king's reception day. Among the numerous persons who thronged to the Palais Royal, were the Colonels of the Legions of Paris.
1997 Irish Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. 53 You have done all the right things to prepare for school. You have attended the induction day and the reception day in the school.
reception desk n.
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1917 Jrnl. Assoc. Collegiate Alumnae Sept. 56/1 Already a number of women who are or will be in this work next fall have volunteered at the reception desk, studied the vocational information now on file, [etc.].
2004 H. Stimmler-Hall Paris & Ile de France 267 The hotel has an elevator, 24-hour reception desk, safe-deposit box and hot/cold drink dispenser.
reception evening n.
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1846 J. K. Polk Diary 7 Apr. (1929) 70 These informal reception evenings are very pleasant.
1999 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 27 Feb. 46 National stadium officials will be in Perth on Tuesday..to host informal reception evenings to publicise Hampden's debenture scheme.
reception hall n.
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1798 ‘Mrs. Barnby’ Rock I. xi. 160 Having reached the reception hall, he ascended a small throne.
1840 Times 2 Dec. 5/3 They..were introduced into the great reception-hall, where they found His Highness seated.
1915 W. Cather Song of Lark vi. iv. 414 When he entered the reception hall of the hotel.., the hall porter challenged him.
2003 Amer. Photo Fall 57/1 A built-in focus-assist beam, a feature that wedding photographers working in dim reception halls will quickly grow to appreciate.
reception night n.
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1788 List Proprietors of Licenses for Private Sedan Chairs 22 The Reception-Nights at the Castle.
1836 Times 10 Feb. 6/3 His saloons were crowded as on a fixed reception night by peers, deputies, artists, and persons of all ranks and professions.
1997 Modesto Bee (Nexis) 23 Nov. h1 The exhibitions have generally drawn large turnouts on reception nights.
reception room n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > reception room
guest-hallc1325
public room1617
common chamber1653
salon1699
reception room1788
majlis1821
mandarah1836
guesten hall1864
guesten chamber1870
recep.1900
salone1902
reception1909
salotto1918
1788 Minor (London ed.) I. viii. 45 The reception room, and the principal bed-chambers must see themselves decorated in sumptuous hangings instead of that old blew-paper with which they have been so long contamnated.
1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee i, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 201 Soho tells me the reception rooms are all to be new furnished, and in the most magnificent style.
1906 C. H. B. Quennell Mod. Suburban Houses p. vii The accommodation generally required is the three usual reception rooms—sometimes Drawing and Dining Rooms will suffice with what is known to the House Agent as the Sitting Hall in addition.
2006 Lancs. Life Feb. 36/1 (advt.) Five bedroom detached property having four reception rooms, en-suite to the master bedroom, [etc.].
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reception centre n. a centre for the reception of newcomers or visitors; spec. a hostel providing temporary accommodation for the homeless.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > place for reception of newcomers
reception centre1896
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > for homeless people
house of refuge1726
night sheltera1819
night refuge1840
tramp-house1850
straw yard1851
casual ward1861
casual1865
shelter1890
reception centre1896
tramp-cell1905
tramp-ward1906
Sally Ann1927
Sally1931
1896 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Reporter 2 Sept. 1/4 Ladies' headquarters in the handsome Kittson mansion was the next reception center, and there Mrs. John A. Logan was among the receiving party.
1942 Nation 27 Apr. 41 Men passing the ‘screening test’ will be ordered promptly to reception centers for final examination and induction.
1978 C. A. Berry Gentleman of Road ix. 69 Normal folk..enjoy reception centres close to their doors as little as they favour Salvation Army hostels or prisons.
2005 Trends in Internat. Migration Ann. Rep. 2004 184 In forthcoming years it is planned..to construct and open an initial reception centre for asylum seekers.
reception class n. Australian, British, and South African the most junior class in an infant or primary school.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > form or class
form1560
first forma1602
remove1718
shell1736
sixth-form1807
lower sixth (form)1818
pettya1827
grade1835
the twenty1857
baby class1860
standard1862
nursery class1863
primer1885
reception class1902
sixth form1938
reception1975
1902 Walsall Advertiser 25 Jan. 5/5 There followed a short discussion, Mr Petitt suggesting the establishment of a reception class for fresh scholars, instead of their being foisted unprepared on teachers.
1905 M. Lawrance How to conduct Sunday School (new ed.) iv. 49 In many schools all new scholars are enrolled in a reception class in which they remain until it is definitely known where they should be properly classified, and whether or not they will become permanent members.
1970 Times 30 Mar. 2/5 The infants' school reception class, where all education began, rarely had fewer than 30 to 40 children aged five.
1996 Independent 23 Aug. i. 11/6 We were told of ‘gap-toothed offspring on that first momentous day at school’. Surely more a feature of the Year 1 or Year 2 photo than the reception class.
reception committee n. (a) a gathering of people to welcome a visitor (b) ironic a group of people lying in wait with unfriendly or violent intentions.
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1851 W. K. Northall Before & Behind Curtain 89 We believe Mr. Marks consulted some members of the reception-committee.
1920 H. V. Lovett Hist. Indian Nationalist Movement 69 The reception committee was broken up by a gang of Extremists.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr. Love & Justice 96 If you've got any ideas of seeing a lawyer, or having any sort of reception committee for me, that's up to you.
1978 Navy News Oct. 2/1 Among the ‘reception committee’ were the mayor and treasurer of the town of Ajax, Ontario.
1996 D. Brimson & E. Brimson Everywhere we Go ix. 133 When the lads at the front realised there was a reception committee waiting for them they spread the word back down.
reception order n. an order authorizing the entry and detention of a person in a psychiatric hospital.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > certificate or certification
reception order1863
certification1881
certificate1927
1863 Retrospect of Pract. Med. & Surg. Jan. 59 No history, except the facts contained in the reception order... Is suicidal and dangerous to others.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 430 The Reception Order of a justice is sufficient authority to take the patient to, and to receive him in an asylum, or to detain him there if he has already been removed on an Urgency Order.
1906 Daily Chron. 26 Feb. 5/4 The Marquis of Townshend..is being kept a prisoner at his town house..by his wife, acting under the direction of her father..who is said to have obtained what is known as a ‘reception order’ from the Lunacy Commissioners.
2004 Hindu (Nexis) 10 Oct. If a mentally ill person is picked up at night no magistrate is available and no hospital can take them in without a reception order.
reception statute n. U.S. Law a statute passed by an American state after Independence which provides that the common law of England be received as binding in that state, subject to repeal and local interpretation.
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society > law > types of laws > [noun] > legal or administrative
Ragmanc1400
Statute of Sewers1571
Poynings' Act1613
Poynings' Law1622
Statute of Limitations1641
Act (or Bill) of Indemnity1647
new tables1664
Habeas Corpus Act1705
Judicature Act1782
continuance act1863
stay-law1880
ripper1885
reception statute1931
thirty-year rule1966
sunshine law1968
1931 Columbia Law Rev. 31 416 The so-called reception statutes vary in form, in the date chosen as a deadline, and as to the implications of the extent of reception.
1956 E. H. Pollack Fund. Legal Research i. 10 The ‘reception’ statutes, enacted by most American states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, gave special recognition to the English common law and statutes..as of 1607, the date of the earliest English settlement at Jamestown.
2007 Duke Jrnl. Gender Law & Policy (Nexis) Jan. 681 By virtue of its reception statute, North Carolina has merely adopted the common law as it stood in England at the time North Carolina began writing its own laws.
reception town n. now rare a town in which people, esp. evacuees in wartime, are received.
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1939 Guardian 20 Nov. 8/4 Since evacuation was by school units the children of one extremely poor area went ‘in concentration’ to one reception town.
1941 Times 12 Feb. 10/4 (advt.) Gentlefolk residing reception town South Devon, offer bed-sitting room to accommodate one or two gentlefolk from danger area.
1958 Times Rev. Industry Feb. 24/1 Some 70,000 people are to be ‘overspilled’ from Glasgow City over the next 10 to 15 years into the new towns..and other reception towns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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