Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being receptible; receivableness.
- noun Something that may be received or believed in.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being receptible; receivableness.
- noun rare A receptible thing.
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- noun The condition of being
receptible ;receptiveness
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Examples
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And for the same reason he has lost receptibility to intermediate vibrations in the COLOR spectrum, which has clouded or stultified his visional faculties.
The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation J. L. Kennon
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Owing to man's degeneration or fall, on your Earth, he has lost all receptibility to the more refined vibratory tones of the chromatic scale.
The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation J. L. Kennon
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Owing to man's degeneration or fall, on your Earth, he has lost all receptibility to the more refined vibratory tones of the chromatic scale.
The Planet Mars And Its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation a Martian 1920
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And for the same reason he has lost receptibility to intermediate vibrations in the color spectrum, which has clouded or stultified his visional faculties.
The Planet Mars And Its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation a Martian 1920
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With him the process did not take more than a minute, but it was startling in its results, and reduced me to an extraordinary state of hypnotic receptibility.
Gulliver of Mars 1905
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With him the process did not take more than a minute, but it was startling in its results, and reduced me to an extraordinary state of hypnotic receptibility.
Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896
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a wife there are principles taken out of the husband, and therefore supplemental, which were not previously in her as a maiden: a youth also becomes or is made a husband, because in a husband there are principles taken out of the wife, which exalt his receptibility of love and wisdom, and which were not previously in him as a youth: this is the case with those who are principled in love truly conjugial.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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