suscipient

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin suscipiens.

Adjective

suscipient (comparative more suscipient, superlative most suscipient)

1. (obsolete) Receiving; admitting.

Noun

suscipient (plural suscipients)

1. (obsolete) One who takes or admits; one who receives.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “suscipient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) suscipient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of suscipiō