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noun

Receipt n.

1.

The act of receiving; reception. "At the receipt of your letter."

2.

Reception, as an act of hospitality. (Obs.) "Thy kind receipt of me."

3.

Capability of receiving; capacity. (Obs.) "It has become a place of great receipt."

4.

Place of receiving. (Obs.) "He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom."

5.

Hence, a recess; a retired place. (Obs.) "In a retired receipt together lay."

6.

A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake. "She had a receipt to make white hair black."

7.

A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.

8.

That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.

Gross receipts. See under Gross, a.

verb

Receipt v. t. (past & past part. receipted; pres. part. receipting)

1.

To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.

2.

To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.

Receipt v. i. To give a receipt, as for money paid.

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Etymology of 'Receipt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Receipt" Quotes from Famous Books

... directly here with the girl, who, as you see, is safe and sound, but with an additional interesting experience or two to add to the large fund she already possessed." He looked down at Carmen and smiled. "And now," he concluded, laughing, as he prepared to depart, "I will not ask for a receipt for the child, as I see I have several witnesses to the fact that I have delivered her to the proper custodian." He bowed and ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... favour of an unlimited Regency. The anxiety to which Lord Buckingham was exposed by this disturbing prospect (some people went so far as to cast the horoscope of an Irish revolution), and by the delays in the receipt of intelligence, owing to the imperfect and irregular means of communication existing between the two countries, betrayed him into some expressions of impatience, against which Mr. Grenville remonstrated with his habitual temperance and good sense, ...

— Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) - From the Original Family Documents • The Duke of Buckingham

... with scriptural subjects represent Christ in the garden of Gethsemane, and Matthew (an Evangelist rarely painted in Venice, where his colleague Mark has all the attention) being called from the receipt of custom. And finally there is the delightful and vivid representation of S. Tryphonius and the basilisk. This picture, of which I give a reproduction opposite page 76, is both charming and funny. The basilisk is surely in the highest rank of the ...

— A Wanderer in Venice • E.V. Lucas

... My master had a friend in Augusta, Ga., by the name of Steve Heard and just before my grandfather got ready to sell his cotton, the master would write Mr. Heard and tell him that he was sending cotton by Sam and wanted his sold and a receipt returned to him. He also advised him to give all the money received to Sam. When grandfather returned he would be loaded down with sugar, cheese, tea, mackerel, ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1 • Works Projects Administration

... for unhappiness is according as one takes things, and Claire takes them according to some receipt communicated to her by the Blessed Virgin in a vision. To be unhappy is to be disagreeable, which, for her, is out of the question. So she has arranged her circumstances so as to be happy ...

— The American • Henry James

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