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recipient, a. and n.|rɪˈsɪpɪənt|
[ad. L. recipient-em, pres. pple. of recipĕre to receive: cf. F. récipient (16th c.).]
A. adj. That receives or is capable of receiving; receptive.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 372 The ponderative judgement of reason, consisting of two intellects, the Recipient and the Agent. 1694R. Burthogge Reason & Nat. Spir. 130 There mention is made..of the Abyss of Waters wrought upon, as the first Recipient Subject. 1872H. Spencer Princ. Pyschol. (ed. 2) I. ii. iv. 220 A difference in feelings, according as the organization is or is not highly recipient. 1893Sir R. Ball Story of Sun 253 Waves which produce the sensation of heat whenever they fall on properly recipient nerves.
B. n.
1. One who or that which receives, in senses of the vb.
1615E. Howes Stow's Ann. 939/2 Turning and winding to come from the head to the great Recipient. 1675Traherne Chr. Ethics 351 That they might be fit recipients for the infinite bounty and goodness of God. c1730Waterland Rem. Clarke's Exp. Ch. Catech. iv, When the recipient is fitly qualified..there is a salutary life-giving virtue annexed to the sacrament. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. III. xxv. 55 This invisible and formless being, the universal recipient of all forms. 1877Froude Short Stud. IV. i. xi. (1883) 134 The recipient of the gift expressed his gratitude by corresponding presents.
2. a. Chem. A receiver; a (glass) vessel for receiving or holding a liquid. ? Obs.
1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. i. i. (1580) 6 Powre the water out of the Recipiente. 1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. v, Take away the recipient, And rectifie your menstrue, from the phlegma. 1658R. White tr. Digby's Powd. Symp. (1660) 78 The mercury in the limbick will gather there, and nothing will passe into the recipient. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 289 The Moisture..filtrates it self to drop into the little Recipients. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. III. xxxiv. 382 Whatever fluid is to be weighed, let it be put into the glass recipient.
b. The receiver of an air-pump. ? Obs.
1672Phil. Trans. VII. 5029 He suspended them in the Recipient of his Engin, and exhausted it of Air. 1709F. Hauksbee Phys.-Mech. Exper. (1719) 3 Upon the plate of the [air] Pump is always laid a wet Leather, on which the Recipients are placed. 1815Simond Tour Gt. Brit. I. 378 A cup of pure water, under the recipient of the pneumatic machine, became a mass of ice.
3. A re-entrant angle.
1811Pinkerton Petral. II. 306 The remarkable articulations..strengthened by projecting angles and recipients.
4. Linguistics. The indirect object of a verb or the complement of an adjective.
1937O. Jespersen Analytic Syntax xxxviii. 156 In conventional grammar the term object is further used for what is governed by an adjective. Here, too, I have avoided the term object..and have adopted instead the term Recipient, abbreviated R... R is seen to be chiefly used where Latin, German, etc. have a dative which is not governed by a transitive verb. 1972R. Quirk et al. Gram. Contemp. Eng. vii. 350 The most typical function of the indirect object is that of recipient (or ‘dative’ participant); ie of animate being passively implicated by the happening or state: I've found you a place. Ibid. 353 The subject may also have a recipient (or ‘dative’) role with verbs such as have, own, [etc.].., as is indicated by the following relation: Mr Smith has bought/given/sold his son a radio→So now his son has/owns/possesses the radio. |