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susceptive

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

susceptible

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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adj

Meaning 2

receptive

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Examples

  • 1709, Isaac Watts, Preface to Horæ Lyricæ. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, Eighth edition, London: James Brackstone, 1743, pp. xxiv-xxv, https://books.google.ca/books?id=aRIDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Amongst the infinite Numbers of Mankind, there is not more Difference in their outward Shape and Features, than in their Temper and inward Inclination. Some are more easily susceptive of Religion in a grave Discourse and sedate Reasoning. Some are best frighted from Sin and Ruin by Terror, [...] : Others can feel no Motive so powerful as that which applies itself to their Ingenuity, and their polish'd Imagination.

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