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- verb Obsolete spelling of
receive .
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Examples
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193: Did in your name receiue it: pardon the fault I pray.
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Their letters or kind of writing the Tartars did receiue.
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And asmany as receiue her into armes, and shewe her the curtesie she comes for, must giue her some gifte, whiche she hath borne with her, home to her house.
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The woman that thei marie, thei neuer take as wife, ne receiue any dowrie with her, vntill she haue borne a childe.
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But whan it began to be skant well kepte vppon the Sonday neither: then was it commaunded that euery manne should receiue it thrise in the yere, or ones at the leaste, at euery
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Into the which, so soone as we had entred, al the inhabitants there seemed vnto vs to be infected with leprosie: [Salt pits.] for certain base fellowes were placed there to receiue tribute of al such as tooke salt out of the salt pits aforesaid.
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And on the morrow after he told vs, that he durst in no case receiue baptisme, because then he should drinke no more Cosmos.
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Then I besought him, that he would vochsafe to accept that small gifte at our hands, excusing my selfe that I was a Monke, and that it was against our profession to possesse gold, or siluer, or precious garments, and therefore that I had not any such thing to giue him, howbeit he should receiue some part of our victuals instead of a blessing.
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And they marueiled exceedingly, that we would receiue neither gold, nor siluer, nor precious and costly garments at their hands.
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About this time also, Pope Innocentius the fourth sent Frier Ascelline being one of the order of the Prædicants, together with three other Friers (of the same authoritie whereunto they were called) consorted with him out of diuers Conuents of their order, with letters Apostolicall vnto the Tartars campe: wherein hee exhorted them to giue ouer their bloudie slaughter of mankinde, and to receiue the Christian faith.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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