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Receive

RECE'IVE, v.t. [L. recipio; re and capio, to take.]
1. To take, as a thing offered or sent; to accept. He had the offer of a donation, but he would not receive it.
2. To take as due or as a reward. He received the money on the day it was payable. He received ample compensation.
3. To take or obtain from another in any manner, and either good or evil.
Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? Job 2.
4. To take, as a thing communicated; as, to receive a wound by a shot; to receive a disease by contagion.
The idea of a solidity we receive by our touch.
5. To take or obtain intellectually; as, to receive an opinion or notion from others.
6. To embrace.
Receive with meekness the engrafted word. James 1.
7. To allow; to hold; to retain; as a custom long received.
8. To admit.
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Psa 73.
9. To welcome; to lodge and entertain; as a guest.
They kindled a fire and received us every one, because of the present rain and because of the cold. Acts 28.
10. To admit into membership or fellowship.
Him that is weak in the faith, receive ye. Rom 14.
11. To take in or on; to hold; to contain.
The brazen altar was too little to receive the burnt-offering. 1 Ki 8.
12. To be endowed with.
Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you. Acts 1.
13. To take into a place or state.
After the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven. Mark 16.
14. To take or have as something ascribed; as, to receive praise or blame. Rev 4. Rev 5.
15. To bear with or suffer. 2 Cor 11.
16. To believe in. John 1.
17. To accept or admit officially or in an official character. The minister was received by the emperor or court.
18. To take stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
receive appears in definitions for these words:
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Cash-account Cast Catch Cavil Certiorari Chamberlain Chapter Chesapeak Christian Cinque-ports Cleat Clevis Coldly Coldness Collect Collector Collier Commissary Commission-merchant Common Commune Communicate Communication Communion Commutative Commute Compensation Complaisance Comprehension Conceive Conceptacle Condenser Conduct Conductor Condyloid Confess Conscience Consideration Consignment Consume Contrafissure Contributary Coolly Copernican Corban Cordiality Cordially Corody Correct Correction Correspond Correspondency Cotyle Could Counselable Counterchange Cringle Cup Cupboard Current Customer Damage Date Deacon Deaden Deed Degree Delight Delightfully Demand Denial Deny Derivable Derive Derived Desert Digest Digested Disallow Disciple Discontinue Distillation Disturbance Doctor Down Draft Draw Drawing-room Drink Drum Eagerness Earn Embrace Embraced Emolument Encomium Enfouldered Entertain Entertained Entertainer Entertainment Entitle Entreaat Equal Equivalent Exchange Exchanged 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Salvable Sanhedrim Satisfaction Saturate Save Scant Scioptics Scourge Screw Scrutiny Second Second-hand Semi-pelagian Session Shall Shambles Share Ship Shipped Shoe Shrive Sight Silence Sink Sinner Snatch Socket Sofa Species Spurn Stand Station Still Stone Strange Succor Suffumigation Sum Summer Suppose Supposed Suscipient Swallow-wort Swallowed Swanimote Swing Take Taken Taker Talisman Tally Teller Tellurium Territory Test Tewel Thanked Thankful Thankfully Thankfulness Thanking Thanks Thanksgiving That Thiller Thumping Thunder-horse Ticket Tillage Tint To Tolerable Towards Tradition Transport Treasurer Treat Trust Unacceptable Unaccepted Unaccredited Unadopted Unalmsed Unaneled Unanointed Unapproved Uncollected Underived Understand Understanding Undisturbed Ungracious Ungraciously Ungratefulness Unhouseled Uninspired Unpaid Unpardoned Unpassable Unreceived Unthanked Unthankful Unthankfulness Unwelcome Unworthy Upon Usage Utricle Vacant Valedictory Vegetation Vein Verderer Vessel 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