receiv'd
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]receiv'd
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of receive
- 1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, Atlas Chinensis[1], London: Tho. Johnson, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 507:
- THe fifth Province of Honan, hath receiv'd its Name from the Situation of the place, for Honan ſignifies The South ſide of a River ; for it lies on the South Shore of the Yellow River, which flowing from Eaſt to Weſt, ſeparates it from the Province of Xanſi and Peking, though to the Eaſt, toward the ſide of Peking it hath ſome Towns.
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
- About eleven at night my two ladies came home, and having receiv'd rather a favourable account from Martha