Receiver
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) One who takes or receives in any manner.

2. (n.) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases.

3. (n.) One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.

4. (n.) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.

5. (n.) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.

6. (n.) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.

7. (n.) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.

8. (n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

9. (n.) That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
RECEIVER

re-sev'-er: Found in the King James Version (Isaiah 33:18); but the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "he that weighed the tribute." The Hebrew is shoqel, which means "one who weighs," "a weigher."

Greek
2983. lambano -- to take, receive
... what is available (offered). 2983 ("accept ") emphasizes the () of the
receiver. Word Origin from a prim. root lab- Definition to ...
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The Eighth Commandment
... (9) The last sort of theft is, the receiver of stolen goods. ... The thief steals
the money, and the receiver holds the sack to put it in. ...
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Consecration
... be always receiving. Just as the lock and key fit each other, God the Giver
and I the receiver fit into each other. How often we ...
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How we Should Understand These Words: "It is More Blessed to Give ...
... Jesus, said he, "said it is more blessed to give than to receive." That is, the
bounty of the giver is more blessed than the need of the receiver, where the ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter xix how we should.htm

Whether God is Perfect?
... forms. Therefore it is not compared to other things as the receiver is to
the received; but rather as the received to the receiver. ...
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Whether it is Lawful to Sell a Thing for More than Its Worth?
... in the friendship which is based on utility, the amount of the recompense for a
favor received should depend on the utility accruing to the receiver: and this ...
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Whether Restitution must Always be Made to the Person from whom a ...
... Now sometimes a man gives unlawfully that which another accepts unlawfully, as
in the case of the giver and receiver who are guilty of simony. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether restitution must always be.htm

Whether the Rite of this Sacrament is Appropriate?
... Objection 2: Further, just as this sacrament requires devotion both in the giver
and in the receiver, so also does the sacrament of Baptism. ...
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Whether the Soul Knows Bodies through the Intellect?
... mode, receives under conditions of immateriality and immobility, the species of
material and mobile bodies: for the received is in the receiver according to ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the soul knows bodies.htm

Philippians iv. 14-Oct
... when he is about to send Epaphroditus as the bearer of this Epistle, he praises
them, and shows that this action was for the need, not of the receiver, but of ...
/.../homily xv philippians iv 14-oct.htm

part vii.
... fourth day of the week), Count Heraclius on the following day [1690] takes with
him Cataphronius the Prefect of Egypt, and Faustinus the Receiver-General [1691 ...
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Thesaurus
Receiver (1 Occurrence)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. RECEIVER. ... Multi-Version Concordance Receiver
(1 Occurrence). Isaiah 33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. ...
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Receives (43 Occurrences)

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Nonimmersionist
... and that where the faith of the giver and receiver is sound, all things hold and
may be consummated and perfected by the majesty of God and by the truth of ...
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Non-immersionist
... and that where the faith of the giver and receiver is sound, all things hold and
may be consummated and perfected by the majesty of God and by the truth of ...
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Fence (12 Occurrences)
... in debate and repartee. See Fencing. 5. (n.) A receiver of stolen goods,
or a place where they are received. 6. (vt) To fend off ...
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Rostrum (1 Occurrence)
... prawn. 8. (n.) Same as Rostellum. 9. (n.) The pipe to convey the distilling
liquor into its receiver in the common alembic. 10. ...
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Receivedst (1 Occurrence)

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Record (71 Occurrences)
... writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded;
as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes. ...
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Retort (1 Occurrence)
... It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass
with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a ...
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Drum
... A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by
means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam ...
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Bible Concordance
Receiver (1 Occurrence)

Isaiah 33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
(KJV DBY WBS)

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