Receptive
(Re*cep"tive) a. [Cf. F. réceptif. See Receive.] Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined
to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.
Imaginary space is receptive of all bodies.
Glanvill. Receptiveness
(Re*cep"tive*ness), n. The quality of being receptive.
Receptivity
(Rec`ep*tiv"i*ty) (res`ep*tiv"i*ty or re`sep- ), n. [Cf. F. réceptivité.]
1. The state or quality of being receptive.
2. (Kantian Philos.) The power or capacity of receiving impressions, as those of the external senses.
Receptory
(Re*cep"to*ry) n. [Cf. L. receptorium a place of shelter.] Receptacle. [Obs.] Holland.
Recess
(Re*cess") n. [L. recessus, fr. recedere, recessum. See Recede.]
1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality.
South.
My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.
Eikon Basilike. 2. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence.
Sir M. Hale.
Good verse recess and solitude requires.
Dryden. 3. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or
school.
The recess of . . . Parliament lasted six weeks.
Macaulay. 4. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
A bed which stood in a deep recess.
W. Irving. 5. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Departure from this happy place, our sweet
Recess, and only consolation left.
Milton. 6. Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science. I. Watts.
7. (Bot. & Zoöl.) A sinus.
Recess
(Re*cess"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Recessing.] To make a recess
in; as, to recess a wall.
Recess
(Re*cess"), n. [G.] A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. Brande & C.
Recessed
(Re*cessed") a.
1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.
2. Withdrawn; secluded. [R.] "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth.
