receyven

• receive, receyve, resaive, resceive, resceyve, resceyven, reseve, reseive, reseyve, resseyve, resseyven
• receave, resive, ressayvynne, resseive, resseiven (Late Middle English)
• receyvyn (East Anglia); recewe, resceve (Ireland); resayve (West Midland)
• receyfe, resaf, resave, resayfe, resayffe, reschayfe, rescheyve, rescyve, ressayfe, ressayve (Northern, Northeast Midland); resayf (Early Scots)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman receivre, from Latin recipere (“to receive”). Compare conceyven, deceyven and perceyven.

• IPA^(key): /rɛːˈsæi̯vən/, /rɛːˈsɛːvən/, /rɛ-/

receyven (third-person singular simple present receyveth, present participle receyvende, receyvynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle receyved)

1. To accept or take (especially into authority):
   1. To give reception or shelter.
      • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Joon 5:43, folio 47, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

        I cam in þe name of my fadir⹎ ⁊ ȝe token not me / if an oþ͛e come in his owne name⹎ ȝe ſchulen reſſeyue hym /

        "I came in the name of my Father and you didn't take me in, but if another [person] comes in their own name, you'll receive them."

   2. To accept for an office or position.
   3. To view authoritatively or favourably.
2. To obtain an attribute, quality, or other abstraction:
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[2], published c. 1410, Joon 5:44, folio 47, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     hou moũ ȝe bileue· þat reſſeyuen gloꝛie ech of oþ͛e⹎ ⁊ ȝe ſeken not þe gloꝛie þ^t is of god aloone⹔

     "How can you believe when you obtain status from each other, but don't search for the status that only comes from God?"

   1. To receive directives or news.
      • 1471 September 28 [1464], Raoul le ffeure, translated by Willyam Caxton, [T]he recuyell of the hiſtoryes of Troye, [London], translation of Le recueil de histoires de Troye (in Middle French), published c. 1474; republished by H. Oskar Sommer, editor‎^[3]volume II, London: David Nutt, 1894, →OCLC, leaf 175 verso:

        WHan hercules had receyuyd the name and the affaires of affer/ he toke hym for his frende. and ſo ſaid to hym that he wolde accompanye hym to conquerre lybye

        When Hercules had heard of the name and deeds of Afer, he accepted him as a friend, and consequently said to him that he'd partner with him to conquer Libya.

   2. To experience or incur a (usually negative) fate or treatment.
      • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[4], published c. 1410, Romayns 1:26, folio 55, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

        alſo þe men foꝛſoken þe kyndli vſſ of wõman⹎ ⁊ bꝛēneden ĩ her deſires togidere / ⁊ men in to men wrouȝtẽ filþeheed⹎ ⁊ reſſeyueden in to hẽ ſılf þe meede þat bihofte of her errour

        Similarly, the men abandoned natural relations with women and became inflamed in their lust towards each other. So men engaged in indecency towards men and received for themselves the deserved reward for their wrongdoing.

   3. To receive an honour or sacrament.
   4. (figuratively) To receive a deserved fate.
3. To contain; to receive as a container:
   1. To be able to receive as a container; to accomodate.
   2. To eat or drink; to consume.
4. To admit, allow or permit:
   1. To accept or acknowledge; to view as valid.
      • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[5], published c. 1410, Coꝛinthis ·ii· 6:18, folio 69, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

        […] ⁊ I ſchal reſſeyue ȝou / ⁊ ſchal be to ȝou in to a fadir: ⁊ ȝe ſchulẽ be to me in to ſones ⁊ douȝtrıs, ſeıþ þe loꝛd almyȝti

        " […] and I'll acknowledge you and be like a father to you, and you'll be like sons and daughters to me." says the Lord Almighty.

   2. To assist; to provide aid to.

• English: receive
• Middle Scots: ressave, ressaif
  • Scots: receive

• “receiven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.