Definition of reception

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Reception (n.) The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception..

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Pernancy :: Pernancy (n.) A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits..
Reception :: Reception (n.) The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence..
Take :: Take (v. i.) To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
Hospital :: Hospital (n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for..
Recipiency :: Recipiency (n.) The quality or state of being recipient; a receiving; reception; receptiveness.
Entreaty :: Entreaty (n.) Treatment; reception; entertainment.
Lazaretto :: Lazaretto (n.) A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases..
Susceptive :: Susception (n.) The act of taking; reception.
Xenodochium :: Xenodochium (n.) In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.].
Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination..
Adoption :: Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another..
Reception :: Reception (n.) A retaking; a recovery.
Slot :: Slot (n.) A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it..
Sheath :: Sheath (n.) A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard..
Acceptation :: Acceptation (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable.
Receipt :: Receipt (n.) Reception, as an act of hospitality..
Share :: Share (n.) The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed..
Couchee :: Couchee (v. t.) A reception held at the time of going to bed, as by a sovereign or great prince..
Ravehook :: Ravehook (n.) A tool, hooked at the end, for enlarging or clearing seams for the reception of oakum..
Xenodochy :: Xenodochy (n.) Reception of strangers; hospitality.
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