recipientn.adj.

Brit.

/rᵻˈsɪpɪənt/, U.S.

/rəˈsɪpiənt/,

/riˈsɪpiənt/

Forms: 1500s recipiente, 1500s– recipient.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French recipient; Latin recipient-, recipiēns.

Etymology: Partly (chiefly in sense A. 1) < Middle French recipient person who receives (1531 in an apparently isolated attestation), vessel for holding liquids (1557 in the passage translated in quot. 1558; 1555 as adjective in vaisseau recipient ; French récipient ) and partly < its etymon classical Latin recipient-, recipiēns, present participle of recipere receive v. With sense A. 2 compare post-classical Latin recipiens person who receives (c1270 in a British source). Compare Italian recipiente vessel for holding liquids (a1519).

A. n.

a. A (glass) container typically used for holding liquids; spec. = receiver n.¹ 4c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > glass > others

urinalc1300

recipient1558

matrass1591

tritory1660

balloon1678

proof-glass1765

air-bell1782

transfer-jar1827

ignition tube1874

beaker1877

bell-jar1877

flask1878

steam-bomb1895

Nessler tube1906

oxygen bottle1932

1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. f. 6^v Powre the water out of the recipiente [Fr. recipient, It. recipiente].

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. E4^v Take away the Recipient, And rectifie your Menstrue, from the Phlegma.

1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 78 The mercury in the limbick will gather there, and nothing will passe into the recipient.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 289 The Moisture..filtrates it self to drop into the little Recipients.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxxiv. 421 Whatever fluid is to be weighed, let it be put into the glass recipient.

1814 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 104 563 I made a sufficient quantity..by pouring limewater into the recipient containing the result of the first experiment.

1879 Scribner's Monthly May 8/2 The horn was..altered into a recipient of liquids which could stand upon a table.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 396 He..took hold of the mediumsized glass recipient which contained the fluid sought after.

1971 W. Foot Food of Italy vi. 213 The..shape for the vinegar recipient..is traditional too for the Modenese families.

2005 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Res. 44 9072/1 The reactor's products were separated in a glass recipient into two phases: liquid and gas.

†b. = receiver n.¹ 4d. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > chamber or receptacle

receiver1660

air vessel1671

recipient1672

chamber1769

suction chamber1864

air chamber1873

suction box1889

1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5029 He suspended them in the Recipient of his Engin, and exhausted it of Air.

1709 F. Hauksbee Physico-mech. Exper. (1719) 3 Upon the plate of the [air] Pump is always laid a wet Leather, on which the Recipients are placed.

1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 380 I put several Anemonies, some in, and some without, water, under the recipient of an air-pump.

1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. I. 378 A cup of pure water, under the recipient of the pneumatic machine, became a mass of ice.

1873 J. Glaisher & C. B. Pitman Flammarion's Atmosphere i. vi. 74 If we let air into the recipient, we at once hear a sound..growing louder as the air becomes denser.

2. gen. A person who or thing which receives (in various senses); a receiver of something.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > [noun] > recipient

receivera1382

perceivera1400

recipient1592

suscipient1611

receivant1623

annuitant1704

1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 13 ^v Sith the celestiall by reason of his heate is the agent, and the inferior because of her moysture the patient or recipient, they be therefore also Man and Wife.

1615 E. Howes Stow's Annales (new ed.) 939/2 Turning and winding to come from the head to the great Recipient.

a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 351* That they might be fit Recipients for the infinite Bounty and Goodness of God.

1730 D. Waterland Rem. Clarke's Expos. Catech. iv. 83 When the Recipient is fitly qualified..there is a salutary life-giving Virtue annex'd to the Sacrament.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxv. 56 This invisible and formless being, the universal recipient of all forms.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xv. 285 You, with your gravity, considerateness, and caution were made to be the recipient of secrets.

1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 4th Ser. i. xi. 134 The recipient of the gift expressed his gratitude by corresponding presents.

1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington vii. 127 Since M.P.'s have become the recipients of a salary rather more is expected and demanded of them in the expenditure line than before.

1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xx. 359 Blood from a donor belonging to Group O can safely be given to a recipient belonging to any one of the other three groups.

1991 Newsweek 9 Dec. 55 (heading) Males receiving oral sex should wear a condom; if the woman is the recipient, she should use a dental dam.

2002 ‘S. Pax’ Weblog Diary 21 Nov. in Baghdad Blog (2003) 40 We are not allowed to send an e-mail to more than five recipients at a time.

†3. A re-entrant angle. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [noun] > other angles

vertical angle?a1560

trient1563

vertical1728

recipient1811

perigon1868

steregon1881

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 306 The remarkable articulations..strengthened by projecting angles and recipients.

4. Grammar. An entity that is affected or changed by the action of a verb, esp. the indirect object of a verb.In quot. 1937: the complement of an adjective.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > object > specific

dative object1831

cognate object or accusative1874

retained object1875

direct object1879

indirect object1879

recipient1899

person-object1928

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > complement > specific

objective complement1870

object complement1898

recipient1899

1899 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 30 p. xxii These neuters in -om must have been originally forms of individualized o-nouns representing the passive recipient, the goal or complement of the action named in the verb.

1937 O. Jespersen Analyt. 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.

1972 R. 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.

1996 S. Greenbaum Oxf. Eng. Gram. iii. 73 The indirect object typically has the roles of recipient..or beneficiary.

2000 J. R. Taylor & E. J. Van Every Emergent Organization i. iv. 121 A third argument that may be obligatory, for certain verbs, is called the goal or the recipient or dative..; its syntactic equivalent is an indirect object.

B. adj.

That receives or is capable of receiving; receptive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [adjective]

understandablea1382

understandinga1382

intellectivea1475

witted1528

receivable1548

intellectible1557

intelligenced1596

recipient1610

intelligential1646

susceptible1646

apprehending1656

open1672

intellected1791

receptive1817

the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > [adjective]

receptory1565

recipient1610

suscipient1649

accipient1730

the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > able or liable to be affected

subjectablea1382

subject1549

occurrent1566

obnoxious1572

prostitute1591

liable1593

incident1603

patible1603

susceptible1605

obvious1609

recipient1610

affectable1611

susceptive1637

receptivea1676

ticklish1681

subjectiblea1732

vacant1751

timid1764

susceptible1883

impressionable1889

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. ix. 372 The ponderatiue iudgement of reason, consisting of two intellects the Recipient [L. recipiens], and the agent.

1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 130 There mention is made..of the Abyss of Waters wrought upon, as the first Recipient Subject.

1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 261 The corpuscles enter by means of the hairs..so that the stigma must not always be looked upon as the only recipient part.

1790 Times 27 Nov. 4/1 The difficulty of excluding the atmospheric air..is entirely obviated by suffering the blood to flow in a full stream..into the vein of the recipient animal.

1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. iv. 220 A difference in feelings, according as the organization is or is not highly recipient.

1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 253 Waves which produce the sensation of heat whenever they fall on properly recipient nerves.

1926 Amer. Naturalist 60 326 Sewing..an entire testis..from an animal..killed immediately before the testes of the recipient animal are removed..to the wall of the tunica vaginalis.

1989 Paper Focus Oct. 38/2 The woodfree base paper is top coated with a micro-capsule emulsion, on top of which another recipient coating is placed.

2004 Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer 40 316 Other chromosomes that were polysomic in the recipient cells were affected as well.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	recipient
释义	recipientn.adj. Brit. /rᵻˈsɪpɪənt/, U.S. /rəˈsɪpiənt/, /riˈsɪpiənt/ Forms: 1500s recipiente, 1500s– recipient. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French recipient; Latin recipient-, recipiēns. Etymology: Partly (chiefly in sense A. 1) < Middle French recipient person who receives (1531 in an apparently isolated attestation), vessel for holding liquids (1557 in the passage translated in quot. 1558; 1555 as adjective in vaisseau recipient ; French récipient ) and partly < its etymon classical Latin recipient-, recipiēns, present participle of recipere receive v. With sense A. 2 compare post-classical Latin recipiens person who receives (c1270 in a British source). Compare Italian recipiente vessel for holding liquids (a1519). A. n. 1. a. A (glass) container typically used for holding liquids; spec. = receiver n.¹ 4c. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > glass > others urinalc1300 recipient1558 matrass1591 tritory1660 balloon1678 proof-glass1765 air-bell1782 transfer-jar1827 ignition tube1874 beaker1877 bell-jar1877 flask1878 steam-bomb1895 Nessler tube1906 oxygen bottle1932 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. f. 6^v Powre the water out of the recipiente [Fr. recipient, It. recipiente]. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. E4^v Take away the Recipient, And rectifie your Menstrue, from the Phlegma. View more context for this quotation 1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 78 The mercury in the limbick will gather there, and nothing will passe into the recipient. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 289 The Moisture..filtrates it self to drop into the little Recipients. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxxiv. 421 Whatever fluid is to be weighed, let it be put into the glass recipient. 1814 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 104 563 I made a sufficient quantity..by pouring limewater into the recipient containing the result of the first experiment. 1879 Scribner's Monthly May 8/2 The horn was..altered into a recipient of liquids which could stand upon a table. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 396 He..took hold of the mediumsized glass recipient which contained the fluid sought after. 1971 W. Foot Food of Italy vi. 213 The..shape for the vinegar recipient..is traditional too for the Modenese families. 2005 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Res. 44 9072/1 The reactor's products were separated in a glass recipient into two phases: liquid and gas. †b. = receiver n.¹ 4d. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > chamber or receptacle receiver1660 air vessel1671 recipient1672 chamber1769 suction chamber1864 air chamber1873 suction box1889 1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5029 He suspended them in the Recipient of his Engin, and exhausted it of Air. 1709 F. Hauksbee Physico-mech. Exper. (1719) 3 Upon the plate of the [air] Pump is always laid a wet Leather, on which the Recipients are placed. 1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 380 I put several Anemonies, some in, and some without, water, under the recipient of an air-pump. 1815 L. Simond Jrnl. Tour Great Brit. I. 378 A cup of pure water, under the recipient of the pneumatic machine, became a mass of ice. 1873 J. Glaisher & C. B. Pitman Flammarion's Atmosphere i. vi. 74 If we let air into the recipient, we at once hear a sound..growing louder as the air becomes denser. 2. gen. A person who or thing which receives (in various senses); a receiver of something. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > [noun] > recipient receivera1382 perceivera1400 recipient1592 suscipient1611 receivant1623 annuitant1704 1592 A. Fraunce 3rd Pt. Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch f. 13 ^v Sith the celestiall by reason of his heate is the agent, and the inferior because of her moysture the patient or recipient, they be therefore also Man and Wife. 1615 E. Howes Stow's Annales (new ed.) 939/2 Turning and winding to come from the head to the great Recipient. a1674 T. Traherne Christian Ethicks (1675) 351* That they might be fit Recipients for the infinite Bounty and Goodness of God. 1730 D. Waterland Rem. Clarke's Expos. Catech. iv. 83 When the Recipient is fitly qualified..there is a salutary life-giving Virtue annex'd to the Sacrament. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxv. 56 This invisible and formless being, the universal recipient of all forms. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xv. 285 You, with your gravity, considerateness, and caution were made to be the recipient of secrets. 1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. 4th Ser. i. xi. 134 The recipient of the gift expressed his gratitude by corresponding presents. 1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington vii. 127 Since M.P.'s have become the recipients of a salary rather more is expected and demanded of them in the expenditure line than before. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xx. 359 Blood from a donor belonging to Group O can safely be given to a recipient belonging to any one of the other three groups. 1991 Newsweek 9 Dec. 55 (heading) Males receiving oral sex should wear a condom; if the woman is the recipient, she should use a dental dam. 2002 ‘S. Pax’ Weblog Diary 21 Nov. in Baghdad Blog (2003) 40 We are not allowed to send an e-mail to more than five recipients at a time. †3. A re-entrant angle. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [noun] > other angles vertical angle?a1560 trient1563 vertical1728 recipient1811 perigon1868 steregon1881 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 306 The remarkable articulations..strengthened by projecting angles and recipients. 4. Grammar. An entity that is affected or changed by the action of a verb, esp. the indirect object of a verb.In quot. 1937: the complement of an adjective. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > object > specific dative object1831 cognate object or accusative1874 retained object1875 direct object1879 indirect object1879 recipient1899 person-object1928 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > complement > specific objective complement1870 object complement1898 recipient1899 1899 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 30 p. xxii These neuters in -om must have been originally forms of individualized o-nouns representing the passive recipient, the goal or complement of the action named in the verb. 1937 O. Jespersen Analyt. 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. 1972 R. 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. 1996 S. Greenbaum Oxf. Eng. Gram. iii. 73 The indirect object typically has the roles of recipient..or beneficiary. 2000 J. R. Taylor & E. J. Van Every Emergent Organization i. iv. 121 A third argument that may be obligatory, for certain verbs, is called the goal or the recipient or dative..; its syntactic equivalent is an indirect object. B. adj. That receives or is capable of receiving; receptive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [adjective] understandablea1382 understandinga1382 intellectivea1475 witted1528 receivable1548 intellectible1557 intelligenced1596 recipient1610 intelligential1646 susceptible1646 apprehending1656 open1672 intellected1791 receptive1817 the mind > possession > acquisition > receiving > [adjective] receptory1565 recipient1610 suscipient1649 accipient1730 the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > able or liable to be affected subjectablea1382 subject1549 occurrent1566 obnoxious1572 prostitute1591 liable1593 incident1603 patible1603 susceptible1605 obvious1609 recipient1610 affectable1611 susceptive1637 receptivea1676 ticklish1681 subjectiblea1732 vacant1751 timid1764 susceptible1883 impressionable1889 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. ix. 372 The ponderatiue iudgement of reason, consisting of two intellects the Recipient [L. recipiens], and the agent. 1694 R. Burthogge Ess. Reason 130 There mention is made..of the Abyss of Waters wrought upon, as the first Recipient Subject. 1766 Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 261 The corpuscles enter by means of the hairs..so that the stigma must not always be looked upon as the only recipient part. 1790 Times 27 Nov. 4/1 The difficulty of excluding the atmospheric air..is entirely obviated by suffering the blood to flow in a full stream..into the vein of the recipient animal. 1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. iv. 220 A difference in feelings, according as the organization is or is not highly recipient. 1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 253 Waves which produce the sensation of heat whenever they fall on properly recipient nerves. 1926 Amer. Naturalist 60 326 Sewing..an entire testis..from an animal..killed immediately before the testes of the recipient animal are removed..to the wall of the tunica vaginalis. 1989 Paper Focus Oct. 38/2 The woodfree base paper is top coated with a micro-capsule emulsion, on top of which another recipient coating is placed. 2004 Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer 40 316 Other chromosomes that were polysomic in the recipient cells were affected as well. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1558
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