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reˌceptiˈbility Also 9 -ability. [f. next.] 1. The quality or state of being receptible.
1676Doctrine of Devils 50 There is one Doctrine of his, would spoil all the receptibility of the whole System of Religion promulgated in his Gospel. 1757tr. Henckel's Pyritologia 114 Some inequality in this receptibility. 1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 55 (1822) II. 20 Without at all diminishing his receptability among the said circles. †2. Capacity for receiving. Obs.—1
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. xvi. 153 The Peripatetick matter is a pure unactuated Power, and this conceited Vacuum a meer Receptibility. [Cf. ibid. The imaginary space is receptive of any body.] |