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receptaries

receptaries is the plural of receptary.

Meaning of receptary

Noun

receptary (plural receptaries)

  1. (obsolete) That which is received.
    • […] nor can they which behold the present state of things, and controversie of points so long received in Divinity, condemn our sober enquiries in the doubtfull appertinancies of Arts, and Receptaries of Philosophy.1646, Thomas Browne, “To the Reader”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650
  2. (historical, pharmacy) A book of pharmacological recipes, incantations or charms.
    • It is known that the recipes of therapeutics and materia medica have been preserved in a parallel way by practice, which has never ceased, in the Receptaries and other Latin treatises; these treatises, translated from the Greek during the period of the Roman Empire, and compiled in the first and...1898, Marcellin Berthelot, “Ancient and Mediæval Chemistry” in Men of Achievement: Inventors and Scientists, Library of Inspiration and Achievement, edited by Edward Everett Hale, New York: The...

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Questions about receptaries

What is receptaries the plural of?
Receptaries is the plural of receptary.

Words near receptaries in the dictionary

  1. receptacular
  2. receptaculitid
  3. receptaculitids
  4. receptaculum
  5. receptaculum chyli
  6. receptaries
  7. receptary
  8. receptibilities
  9. receptibility
  10. receptible
  11. reception

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