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 The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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 Withdrawn; secluded.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.


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