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Receipt [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. RECE'IPT ,

2. RECE'IT, noun rece't. [Latin receptus. This word wought to follow the analogy of conceit, deceit, from Latin conceptus, deceptus, and be written without p, receit.]

3. The act of receiving; as the receit of a letter.

4. The place of receiving; as the receit of custom.

5. Matthew 9:9 .

6. Reception; as the receit of blessings or mercies.

7. Reception; welcome; as the kind receit of a friend. obsolete

8. [In this sense, reception is now used.]

9. Recipe; prescription of ingredients for any composition, as of medicines, etc.

10. In commerce, a writing acknowledging the taking of money or goods. A receit of money may be in part or in full payment of a debt, and it operates as an acquittance or discharge of the debt either in part or in full. A receit of goods makes the receiver liable to account for the same, according to the nature of the transaction, or the tenor of the writing. It is customary for sheriffs to deliver goods taken in execution, to some person who gives his receit for them, with a promise to redeliver them to the sheriff at or before the time of sale.

11. RECEIPT,

12. RECEIT , verb transitive rece't. To give a receit for; as, to receit goods delivered by a sheriff.

Receipt [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of receiving; reception.

2. Reception, as an act of hospitality.

3. Capability of receiving; capacity.

4. Place of receiving.

5. Hence, a recess; a retired place.

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.

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.

Receipt [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To give a receipt, as for money paid.

Receipt [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

OF CUSTOM. Matthew, when called, was sitting at the receipt of custom, or dues on merchandise. He was a publican or tax-gatherer, or, as we should say, a custom house officer. The publicans had houses or booths built for them at the foot of bridges, at the mouth of rivers, by the sea shore, and the parts of the lake of Gennesareth, or sea of Tiberias, to collect the taxes on passengers and merchandise. See PUBLICAN.

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Receipted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Receipt

Receipting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Receipt

Receiptment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony.

Receiptor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.