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.
   2. To accept for an office or position.
   3. To view authoritatively or favourably.
2. To obtain an attribute, quality, or other abstraction:
   1. To receive directives or news.
   2. To experience or incur a (usually negative) fate or treatment.
   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.
   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.