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Definition of Susceptive
1. a. Susceptible.
Definition of Susceptive
1. Adjective. susceptible ¹
2. Adjective. receptive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Susceptive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Susceptive
Literary usage of Susceptive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 214. In his deep susceptive heart he ...
[< susceptive + -4ty.] Capacity of admitting ; susceptibility. imply a natural ..."
2. The Aesthetic Letters, Essays, and the Philosophical Letters of Schiller: Tr. by Friedrich Schiller (1845)
"He can bestow the intensity which the active power requires upon the passive,
anticipate the subjective by the objective impulse, and make the susceptive ..."
3. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"If that faculty, under influences of which we are susceptive, is competent to
the reproduction of all that has taken place in the sphere of consciousness, ..."
4. The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Whole Language by John Walker (1904)
"... Susceptive of disunion, a, Ia-sep'a-ra-Ые ... Worthy of veneration or reverence,
a, Vulner-a-Ые Susceptive of wounds, a. ..."
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