Word Meanings - RECEIPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of receiving; reception. "At the receipt of your letter." Shak. 2. Reception, as an act of hospitality. Thy kind receipt of me. Chapman. 3. Capability of receiving; capacity. It has become a place of great receipt. Evelyn. 4. Place of

Additional info about word: RECEIPT

1. The act of receiving; reception. "At the receipt of your letter." Shak. 2. Reception, as an act of hospitality. Thy kind receipt of me. Chapman. 3. Capability of receiving; capacity. It has become a place of great receipt. Evelyn. 4. Place of receiving. He saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom. Matt. ix. 9. 5. Hence, a recess; a retired place. "In a retired receipt together lay." Chapman. 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. She had a receipt to make white hair black. Sir T. Browne. 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. Cross receipts. See under Gross, a.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECEIPT)

• Acquittance
• Release
• receipt
• discharge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RECEIPT)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to RECEIPT)

• RECEIPTOR
  One who receipts; specifically , one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• SHACKLE
  1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
• RECEIPT
  1. The act of receiving; reception. "At the receipt of your letter." Shak. 2. Reception, as an act of hospitality. Thy kind receipt of me. Chapman. 3. Capability of receiving; capacity. It has become a place of great receipt. Evelyn. 4. Place of
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• CONSTRAINT
  The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion;
• RELEASEMENT
  The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation. Milton.
• CONSTRAINABLE
  Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.
• DISCHARGER
  One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.
• RELEASEE
  One to whom a release is given.
• RELEASER
  One who releases, or sets free.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• CONSTRAINER
  One who constrains.
• FETTERED
  Seeming as if fettered, as the feet pf certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
• CONFINE
  To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
• CONSTRAINEDLY
  By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker.
• UNFETTER
  To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
• ENFETTER
  To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak.
• RAMSHACKLE
  Loose; disjointed; falling to pieces; out of repair. There came . . . my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach. Thackeray.
• UNSHACKLE
  To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. Addison.
• DISCHARGE
  1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge
• UNCONSTRAINT
  Freedom from constraint; ease. Felton.