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receptive, a.|rɪˈsɛptɪv|
[ad. med.L. receptīvus: see receipt and -ive, and cf. obs. F. receptif.]
1. Having the quality of, or capacity for, receiving; able to receive; pertaining to, of the nature of, reception. (Common in 17th and 19th c.; in later use esp. of the mind, or of persons in respect of it, or of sensory processes in an organism.)
1547Boorde Brev. Health Pref. 4 Chierurgyons must knowe..what synges..be receptyve [printed recentyve], what signes be expulcive. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. xi. §3 The soul..shall, as it is receptive, be..perfected with those supernatural passions of joy, peace, and delight. 1656Bramhall Replic. iv. 160 That receptive Power..to admit or not admit such new Laws. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. iii. 89 The Earth and Sun..; the one active, piercing,..the other passive, receptive. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. v. 95 The passive sense, or what the school-men call the merely receptive. 1836–41Brande Chem. (ed. 5) 210 The receptive and transmitting powers of bodies in regard to radiant heat. 1875Whitney Life Lang. ii. 30 The passive receptive work of the mind. 1906C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action of Nerv. Syst. iii. 90 The flexion-reflex has a ‘receptive skin-field’ which though extensive is characteristic for it. 1934A. Forbes in C. Murchison Handbk. Exper. Psychol. iii. 175 When the receptive substance is excitatory the combination causes contraction of the muscle cell. 1975M. & N. Samuels Seeing with Mind's Eye xi. 152 Receptive visualization provides us with the means for getting in touch with images from our inner center.
b. Const. of.
1641‘Smectymnuus’ Answ. xviii. (1653) 74 A heaven that hath a broad way leading thither, and is receptive of Drunkards. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic. ii. i. (1840) 234 The heart of man became receptive of wickedness. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 90 We are to answer every one that inquires a reason..which supposes something receptive of it. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 291, I should wish the citizens to be as receptive of virtue as possible.
c. Med. and Psychol. Affecting or relating to the comprehension of speech or writing, esp. as impaired by a brain disorder.
1926H. Head Aphasia I. ii. iii. 204 Closer observation showed that the ‘receptive’ aspect of her use of language had not in reality escaped. Ibid. 207 These defects..are entirely inexplicable on any theory..of separate loss of the ‘emissive’ and ‘receptive’, ‘motor’ and ‘sensory’ functions, which are supposed to accompany speech. 1955R. Jakobson in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 423/2 The classical distinction between the so-called emissive (or expressive) aphasia on the one hand, and the receptive (or sensory) aphasia on the other. 1963Osgood & Miron Approaches to Study of Aphasia iii. 60 Patients displaying breakdown..in the comprehension of speech and word meanings, but without impairment of hearing per se (i.e., the classical ‘sensory’ or ‘receptive’ aphasia), are most likely to have lesions in the left temporal zone.
1961R. Brain Speech Disorders vii. 93 Central aphasia is characterized by both receptive and expressive disturbance. 1973J. W. Brown Pick's Aphasia p. xi, With regard to ‘receptive’ disturbances, Pick assumed a complementary mental structure underlying the transition of heard sound to thought. 1977W. H. Perkins Speech Path. (rev. ed.) v. 132/2 By the same token, receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia, posterior aphasia, and fluent aphasia identify essentially the same language disorder as Wernicke's aphasia, or pragmatic aphasia. Ibid. xv. 341 The North-western Syntax Screening Test..of receptive and expressive grammatical ability has become available.
2. spec.
†a. receptive measures, measures of capacity. Obs.
1680Morden Geog. Rect., Coin (1685) 281 Receptive Measures are two-fold. First of liquid or moist things; Secondly of dry things. 1727W. Mather Yng. Man's Comp. 197 Of Receptive Measure, that is, Things Measured inwardly.
b. receptive spot, the spot in an oosphere at which the male gamete is admitted.
1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 344 The entrance takes place at a lighter spot of the oosphere facing the neck, which is termed the Receptive Spot.
Hence reˈceptively adv.
1881W. Spottiswoode in Nature No. 624. 570 We can cause the discharge to be from one terminal only, the other terminal acting merely receptively. |