receyt

• receit, receite, receyte, resceit, resceyt, resceyte, reseyt, resseite, resseyt, resseyte, resyte
• receipt, receipte, resceipte (after Latin rēceptus)
• receiȝt (Hertfordshire); rescheite, resayt (Northern, Northwest Midland)

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman receit m (“receptacle, refuge”) and receite f (“receival, reception”), alteration of recet m/recete f (see recet) after receivre (“to receive”), from Latin receptus, recepta; compare receyven (“to receive”).

• IPA^(key): /rɛːˈsæi̯t/, /rɛːˈsɛːt/, /rɛ-/
• IPA^(key): /rɛːˈsæi̯t(ə)/, /rɛːˈsɛːt(ə)/, /rɛ-/ (after Old French receite f)

receyt (plural receytes) (especially Late Middle English)

1. The act of reception or taking in:
   1. Income, receipts; money received.
   2. (rare) Acceptance of a person in a position.
2. Something or somewhere for reception:
   1. A receptacle; an open container (especially a reservoir)
   2. A governmental department for receiving income.
   3. A shelter or lodging (especially as refuge)
   4. (hunting, rare) A place where hunters wait for driven game.
   5. (rare) Cognitive capacity.
3. (medicine) A medicinal concoction or the recipe for it.

• English: receipt
• Middle Scots: resait, ressait
  • Scots: receipt, recaipt

• “receit(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.