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Receive

verb

(past & past part. received; pres. part. receiving)

Get something; come into possession of. Synonym: have. "Receive a gift" , "Receive letters from the front"

Receive a specified treatment (abstract). Synonyms: find, get, incur, obtain. "His movie received a good review" , "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

Go through (mental or physical states or experiences). Synonyms: experience, get, have. "Experience vertigo" , "Get nauseous" , "Receive injuries" , "Have a feeling"

Express willingness to have in one's home or environs. Synonyms: invite, take in.

Accept as true or valid.

Bid welcome to; greet upon arrival. Synonym: welcome.

Convert into sounds or pictures.

Experience as a reaction. Synonyms: encounter, meet.

10.

Have or give a reception.

11.

Receive as a retribution or punishment. Synonym: get.

12.

Partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament.

13.

Regard favorably or with disapproval.

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... was military in character and contemplated the creation of an army of liberated slaves; but its early suppression prevented any display of Negro valor or genius. Its leader must ever receive the homage due those who are so moved by the woes of others as to overlook all considerations of policy and personal risk. As a plot for the destruction of life it fell far short of the Nat Turner insurrection which swept off fifty-seven persons within a few hours. In ...

— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward

... after having so much merriment with the three brothers every night, Jack became sleepy on horseback, and would have lost the road if it was not for the little men a-guiding him. At last he arrived weary and tired, and they did not seem to receive him with any kindness whatever, because he had not found the stolen castle; and to make it worse, he was disappointed in not seeing his young and beautiful wife to come and meet him, through being hindered ...

— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)

... prize liberty from the bitter experience of his own life. Even he that sleeps has by this event been clothed with new influence. His simple and weighty words will be gathered like those of Washington, and quoted by those who, were he alive, would refuse to listen. Men will receive a new access to patriotism. I swear you on the altar of his memory to be more faithful to that country for which he perished. We will, as we follow his hearse, swear a new hatred to that slavery against which he warred, and which in ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators • Elbert Hubbard

... blood and fire; but the nucleus of mutual-aid institutions, habits, and customs, grown up in the tribe and the village community, remains; and it keeps men united in societies, open to the progress of civilization, and ready to receive it when the day comes that they shall receive civilization ...

— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin

... endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself. I accordingly believe freely in my freedom; I do so with the best of scientific consciences, knowing that the predetermination of the amount of my effort of attention can never receive objective proof, and hoping that, whether you follow my example in this respect or not, it will at least make you see that such psychological and psychophysical theories as I hold do not necessarily force a man to become a ...

— Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals • William James

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