recipiencen.

1762 C. Colden Let. 20 Dec. in Coll. N.Y. Hist. Soc. (1922) 6 204 The effects [of light] cou'd not appear without a power of recipience in the Body.

?1797 R. Hawker Paraclesis (Plymouth ed.) 109 Like bodies in a state of recipience, it is dangerous to come within the region of contagion.

1906 S. S. Laurie Synthetica I. 7 The subject-reality..appears to be a mere potency of recipience and reaction.

1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Nov. 801/2 Their [sc. the neo-realists'] insistence on the independent reality of the physical world and the passive recipience of the mind in knowing it.

2003 R. V. Vanterpool in T. L. Lott & J. P. Pittman Compan. Afr. Amer. Philos. xxi. 345 ‘Rights’ holders are placed in a passive position of recipience from which they make entitlement demands of others.

1818 Eclectic Rev. June 532 The religion of a dying man, must offer to him a salvation altogether gratuitous, and ready for his simple recipience.

1891 Harper's Mag. Dec. 156/2 They went and came in rapid processions of renunciation and recipience.

1930 D. Allen Fight for Peace xxv. 663 Conscience is not dependent on the direct recipience of a divine effluvium.

1956 K. Cragg Call of Minaret ii. iii. 78 The recipience on the earthly side is Muhammad's alone, standing as the last in the long series of prophets each of whom had received earlier ‘Books’.

1994 Washington Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. a19 Higher food-stamp recipience closely corresponds with lower usage of prenatal medical services.