accipient

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accipient

/əkˈsɪpiənt/

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Learned borrowing from Latin accipiēns (“receiving”, stem: accipient-), the present active participle of accipiō (“to receive”), whence accept.

noun accipients

Late, Modern, obsolete Someone who, or something which, accepts (willingly receives). Instances sometimes occur of Species, or Varieties, gaining partial possession of the bodies of one another[…]Such instances, however, are very rare, and probably never take place between Varieties belong to the same Primary Species: for although it is an occurrence that evinces an intimate affinity

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@misc{accipient_2026,
  title = {accipient},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/accipient},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}