receptory

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English receptorie, from Medieval Latin receptorium (“a place of shelter”).

Noun edit

receptory (plural receptories)

(obsolete) A receptacle[16th century].

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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