susceptor

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin . See susceptible.

Noun

susceptor (plural susceptors)

1. One who undertakes anything; specifically, a godfather; a sponsor; a guardian.
   • 1641, John Evelyn, The Diary of John Evelyn, Vol. 1, Macmillan and Co. (1906), page 5

     I had given me the name of my grandfather, my mother's father, who, together with a sister of Sir Thomas Evelyn of Long-Ditton, and Mr. Comber, a near relation of my mother, were my susceptors.

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2. A material used for its ability to absorb electromagnetic energy and convert it to heat, used in industrial heating and cooking.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “susceptor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cue sports, cuesports, cup-tosser, spectrous, suspector

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Latin

Noun

susceptor m (genitive susceptōris); third declension

1. undertaker (person who undertakes to do something), contractor
2. receiver or collector of taxes

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	susceptor	susceptōrēs
Genitive	susceptōris	susceptōrum
Dative	susceptōrī	susceptōribus
Accusative	susceptōrem	susceptōrēs
Ablative	susceptōre	susceptōribus
Vocative	susceptor	susceptōrēs

References

• “susceptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• susceptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• susceptor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016