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recet1 (c.1136-37)

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The form reces is a cross reference to the following entry:

recet1 (c.1136-37)

receit,  receite,  recept,  recest,  receste,  recete,  recette;  rescet,  rescett,  rescette,  reset,  resset  (rechet  Secr WATERFORD1 84.431 reçoi  A-N Piety 164.287 resceu  Northumb 257 resut  Fouke ANTS 33.35 );
pl. recez  (recesz  Brut Royal 5033)  
  FEW:  recipere 10,146a Gdf:  recet 1 6,654c GdfC: TL: recet 8,397 DEAF:  recet  DMF:  recept  TLF: OED:  recept n.1  / reset n.1  MED:  recept(e n.  / recet n.  DMLBS:  recepta 2671a / receptus 2673a

The entries receite1 and recet1 derive from the same Latin etymon, receptus, but are treated separately on grammatical and semantic grounds: the former, usually as a feminine noun, refers to the ‘action of receiving’ whereas the latter, usually as a masculine noun, refers to the ‘means or place of receiving’. The AND follows the dictionaries of Continental French as well as Middle and Modern English in maintaining this separation. However, through typical gender-instability, the two lexemes at times seem to be interchangeable in Anglo-Norman.

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1implementreceptacle, vessel
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  tenailles et havetz et recettes de feu (Latin: ignium receptacula)  Bible Royal 55rb
2place of reception, shelter or refuge
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Li felon sunt temple e recet De diable  Salemon 2967
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  E Jocelins i est de part le rei venuz: Tuz les recez le rei li aveit defenduz, Viles, burcs e chastaus  Becket1 4887
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  recept ne abri  S Modw 2275 (var.)
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xivm )  Car Jesu Criste en son rescet Nul rescet s'il ne soit nette  Serm DTC Shrift 202
mil.stronghold, fortress, fortified place of shelter or refuge
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Treis bons recez dunc lur tolid: Ailesbiri e Besubtune E la cited de Luietune  GAIMAR1 982
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Daires est pres de sun recet, Il n’i aveit ke un petitet [...]; Lessé i aveit chevalers, Deus cenz de hardiz e de fers  Ipom BFR 7419
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  nus n'i avum nul receit En ki nus pussum fier, Si nus estut guereier  Brut Royal 86
( 1382 )  Noefchastell' sur Tyne, un keye de North' et resset a vostre oest [...] en temps de guerre  Northumb 222.200
3mil.(fortified) dwelling, residence
( MS: s.xii2/4 )  [...] Et terremoete ço i ad veirement [...] Des Besençun tresqu’as porz de Guitsand Nen ad recet dunt li murs ne cravent  Roland 1430
( c.1165; MS: s.xiii2 )  Elidus prist a purpense Quel part il la purrat porter. Sis recez fu pres de la mer  marie Lais 182.887
( 1318-24 )   mon rescet ad esté arz par les enemys treis foiz  Northumb 143
( 1327 )  le dit Alisaundre, qi feust preié et destrut par les enemis d'Escoce, en quatre rescettes q'il avoit pres Byland et Ryvaus  Rot Parl2 175
zool.(of animals) den, lair
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Li chen [...] unt la bisse pres siwie [...]. Quant ele se veit aproscee, A sun recet est repeiree  S Gile1 1608
( c.1180; MS: s.xiii2 )  Viande demanda e quist, kar n’en aveit nient, ceo dist (the cricket), En sa meisun n’en sun recet  MARIE Fables 39.7
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  oyseus lur nyz, E lur recet  (ms. recette) ount lé gupyz  S Fran ANTS 2960
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  (badgers) font lur recetez parfound en terre  BOZ Cont 179
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  (the lizard, after spending winter under a rock) Lors va qerant autre recet en ascun leu vers le soleil  BOZ Cont 128
livestockarchit.shelter, place to keep animals
( c.1285; MS: c.1300 )  Mut sereit povre le chival [...] qe ne purreit aler du matin [...] treis liues de veye de sun recet e returner a noune  HENLEY2 314.c29
( 1304 )  il n'ad fraunc tenement en la vile a quey comune apend, ne reset ou ces bestis pessauns la comune purrunt cocher et lever etc.  YBB 32-33 Ed I 321
falc.rest, pole, perch
( MS: s.xiiiex )  (a falcon) tost veit a sun recet pur reposer. E issi averez vostre oisel estable  A-N Falconry 21
recet de, as laruns
den of thieves, place where thieves associate
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Dieus dist qe sa maison serroit maison d’oreison, e il l’avoient fet rescet de larouns  Gospel Harmony 62.82.6
( s.xiii3/3; MS: s.xivm )   en chief del monde sur Cappe de Cercel estoit un chastel q'estoit grant recet et privé as larouns  Rich I 8.11.10
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Ci est ostel receste de larun  Genèse 1019
aver recet
to find refuge, be safe
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  En sum unt fait un chastelet, Unc ainz n’i out eu recet  Brut WACE 938
( s.xii2; MS: c.1200 )  geo destruirai si cels ki ore te tormentent qu’il n’avrunt en tot le mund recet qui lor soit  Psalter Comment 378.604
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  Del regne l'a chacié, sil het encore issi Que il ne puet aveir recet ne la ne ci  Becket1 2204
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Il ne unt repair la, ne recet  S Clem ANTS 14741
aver (sun (etc.)) recet a, en
1 to find refuge in, be safe with
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  les simples gentz [...] qe ne ont autre recet (var. (B: c.1330) refute) qe en Jhesu Crist  BOZ Cont 134
to be welcomed in, received hospitably by
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Comment pot estre tant hardi, Com tu moi diz, li enemi Q'il occeist le fiz celui Ou il ot recet e refui En grace d'ospitalité?  Dial Greg SATF 2916
( 1272-1307 )  par la u le genz purrunt plus prestement aver recest a la vile, qe a freris  Rot Parl1 i 157
( c.1378; MS: s.xivex )  Triche a Florence et a Vebnise Ad son recet et sa franchise  GOWER Mirour 25250
2to stay, dwell in
( 1285 )  tiels meffesours [...] communalment ont lour recet e lour covynes [...] en taverne plus qe aillours  Stats i 102
( MS: 1419 )  Et pur ceo qe tieux alauntz nutauntre comunement ount lour rescett et fount lours comunes purparlances es tavernes pluis qe aillours  Lib Alb 276
3to be affixed, attached to
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  les rais (=spokes) de charette En les moyeaus (=hub of a wheel) ount lur recet (var. (T: s.xivin) rescet)  BIBB ROTH (G) 844

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See also:

receite1  receivable  receivance  receiveson  receivement  receivre  receivur  receptacle  reception  recettement  recetter  recettur  recetture  recipe 
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