received
English
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Pronunciation
Verb
received
- simple past and past participle of receive
Adjective
received (not comparable)
- Generally accepted as correct or true.
- Thomas Browne
- And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.
- 2012, Robin Wilkinson, Western Mail, Oct 30 2012
- The old saying goes that we should not judge a man until we have walked a mile in his shoes. As with so much received wisdom – from judging books by their covers to the relative exchange rate for birds in hands and bushes – this is of course rubbish.
- Thomas Browne