suscipient

comparative more suscipient · superlative most suscipient

1. obsoleteReceiving; admitting.

plural suscipients

1. obsoletebusinessOne who takes or admits; one who receives.

   suscipient trade

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   suscipient business

   suscipient function

   suscipient retail

   But if the sacrament does not do - its work alone , but per modum - recipientis, according to the predispositions of the suscipient , then because infants can neither hinder it nor do any thing to further it , it does them no benefit at all

   1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying