suscipient

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English

Etymology

Latin suscipiens.

Adjective

suscipient (comparative more suscipient, superlative most suscipient)

  1. (obsolete) Receiving; admitting.

Noun

suscipient (plural suscipients)

  1. (obsolete) One who takes or admits; one who receives.
    • 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:
      But if the sacrament does not do - its work alone , but per modum - recipientis, according to the predispositions of the suscipient , then because infants can neither hinder it nor do any thing to further it , it does them no benefit at all

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suscipient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

suscipient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of suscipiō
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