Meanings
alternative archaic receiv'd
- not comparableGenerally accepted as correct or true.
The old saying goes that we should not judge a man until we have walked a mile in his shoes. As with so much received wisdom – from judging books by their covers to the relative exchange rate for birds in hands and bushes – this is of course rubbish.
2012 October 30, Robin Wilkinson, Western Mail1 more example
And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveconforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
adjectivewidely accepted as true or worthy
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Spanish recibido
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Rhymes & wordplay
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