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This receptacle should be a pail, basket, box, or can.— Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
The distance between the breaker box and the receptacle is about one story.— Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
Displacement of the parts of the flower from elongation of the receptacle is a not infrequent teratological occurrence, resulting sometimes in the conversion of the verticillate into the spiral arrangement.— Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
_Beneath all_ SENSIBLE _phenomena there is an unchangeable subject-matter, the mysterious substratum of the world of sense, which he calls the receptacle (ἱποδοχή) the nurse (τιθήνη) of all that is produced_. [— Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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