Receipt vs Acceptation - What's the difference?
receipt | acceptation |
The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:at the receipt of your letter
(label) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
*, Bk.VI, Ch.xvi:
*:And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite .
(label) A quantity or amount received; takings.
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A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
A recipe, instructions, prescription.
*Sir (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
*:She had a receipt to make white hair black.
(label) A receptacle.
(label) A revenue office.
(label) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
*(George Chapman) (1559-1634)
*:thy kind receipt of me
(label) Capability of receiving; capacity.
*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:It has become a place of great receipt .
(label) A recess; a retired place.
*(George Chapman) (1559-1634)
*:in a retired receipt together lay
To give or write a receipt (for something)
To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid
(obsolete) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.
* 1676 , , The Second Book of Eccle?ia?tical Polity'', in ''The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Eccle?ia?tical Polity ,
* 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , i, 15,
The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received.
* 1731 January 30, , editor), ''The Craftsman , Volume VII,
Ready belief.
As nouns the difference between receipt and acceptation
is that receipt is the act of receiving, or the fact of having been received while acceptation is (obsolete) acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.As a verb receipt
is to give or write a receipt (for something).receipt
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* (l)Verb
(en verb)- to receipt delivered goods
- to receipt a bill
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*acceptation
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(en noun)page 122,
- Finally, ?ome things although not ?o required of nece??ity, that to leave them undone excludeth from Salvation, are notwith?tanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God, that mo?t ample reward in Heaven is laid up for them.
- This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation , that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
- The term is to be used according to its usual acceptation .
page 233,
- My words, in common Acceptation , / Could never give this Provocation ;