Receipt - RECE'IPT,
RECE'IT, n. rece't. [L. receptus. This word wought to follow the analogy of conceit, deceit, from L. conceptus, deceptus, and be written without p, receit.]
1. The act of receiving; as the receit of a letter.
2. The place of receiving; as the receit of custom.
Mat 9.
3. Reception; as the receit of blessings or mercies.
4. Reception; welcome; as the kind receit of a friend. Obs.
[In this sense, reception is now used.]
5. Recipe; prescription of ingredients for any composition, as of medicines, &c.
6. In commerce, a writing acknowledging the taking of money or goods. A receit of money may be in part or in full payment of a debt, and it operates as an acquittance or discharge of the debt either in part or in full. A receit of goods makes the receiver liable to account for the same, according to the nature of the transaction, or the tenor of the writing. It is customary for sheriffs to deliver goods taken in execution, to some person who gives his receit for them, with a promise to redeliver them to the sheriff at or before the time of sale.
RECEIPT,
RECEIT, v.t. rece't. To give a receit for; as, to receit goods delivered by a sheriff.
Reckon - RECKON, v.t. rek'n. [L. rego, rectus, whence regnum, regno, Eng. to reign and right.]
1. To count; to number; that is, to tell the particulars.
The priest shall reckon to him the money, according to the years that remain, even to the year of jubilee, and it shall be abated. Lev 27.
I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
2. To esteem; to account; to repute. Rom 8.
For him I reckon not in high estate.
3. To repute; to set in the number or rank of.
He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 22.
4. To assign in an account. rom. 4.
5. to compute; to calculate.
RECK'ON, v.i.
1. To reason with one's self and conclude from arguments.
I reckoned till morning, that as a lion, so will he break all my bones. Isa 38.
2. To charge to account; with on.
I call posterity into the debt, and reckon on her head.
3. To pay a penalty; to be answerable; with for.
If they fall in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day.
1. To reckon with, to state an account with another, compare it with his account, ascertain the amount of each and the balance which one owes to the other. In this manner the countrymen of New England who have mutual dealings, reckon with each other at the end of each year, or as often as they think fit.
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. Mat 25.
2. To call to punishment.
God suffers the most grievous sins of particular persons to go unpunished in this world, because his justice will have another opportunity to meet and reckon with them.
To reckon on or upon, to lay stress or dependence on. He reckons on the support of his friends.
Reckon - RECKON, v.t. rek'n. [L. rego, rectus, whence regnum, regno, Eng. to reign and right.]
1. To count; to number; that is, to tell the particulars.
The priest shall reckon to him the money, according to the years that remain, even to the year of jubilee, and it shall be abated. Lev 27.
I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
2. To esteem; to account; to repute. Rom 8.
For him I reckon not in high estate.
3. To repute; to set in the number or rank of.
He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 22.
4. To assign in an account. rom. 4.
5. to compute; to calculate.
RECK'ON, v.i.
1. To reason with one's self and conclude from arguments.
I reckoned till morning, that as a lion, so will he break all my bones. Isa 38.
2. To charge to account; with on.
I call posterity into the debt, and reckon on her head.
3. To pay a penalty; to be answerable; with for.
If they fall in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day.
1. To reckon with, to state an account with another, compare it with his account, ascertain the amount of each and the balance which one owes to the other. In this manner the countrymen of New England who have mutual dealings, reckon with each other at the end of each year, or as often as they think fit.
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. Mat 25.
2. To call to punishment.
God suffers the most grievous sins of particular persons to go unpunished in this world, because his justice will have another opportunity to meet and reckon with them.
To reckon on or upon, to lay stress or dependence on. He reckons on the support of his friends.
Reconcile - RECONCI'LE, v.t. [L. reconcilio; re and concilio; con and calo, to call, Gr. The literal sense is to call back into union.]
1. To conciliate anew; to call back into union and friendship the affections which have been alienated; to restore to friendship or favor after estrangement; as, to reconcile men or parties that have been at variance.
Go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother - Mat 5.
We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
2 Cor 5. Eph 2. Col 1.
2. To bring to acquiescence, content or quiet submission; with to; as, to reconcile one's self to afflictions. It is our duty to be reconciled to the dispensations of Providence.
3. To make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; followed by with or to.
The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labor with affairs of state.
Some figures monstrous and misshap'd appear, considered singly, or beheld too near; which but proportion'd to their light and place, due distance reconciles to form and grace.
4. To adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences or quarrels.
Refuge - REF'UGE, n. [L. refugium, refugio; re and fugio, to flee.]
1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
- Rocks, dens and caves, but I in none of these find place or refuge.
We have made lies our refuge. Isa 28.
- We might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us. Heb 6.
2. That which shelters or protects from danger, distress or calamity; a strong hold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; any place inaccessible to an enemy.
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats. Psa 104.
The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed. Psa 9.
3. An expedient to secure protection or defense.
This last old man - their latest refuge was to send to him.
4. Expedient, in general.
Light must be supplied, among graceful refuges, by terracing any story in danger of darkness.
Cities of refuge, among the Israelites, certain cities appointed to secure the safety of such persons as might commit
homicide without design. Of these there were three on each side of Jordan. Josh 20.
REF'UGE, v.t. To shelter; to protect.