susceptio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

susceptĭo, ōnis, f. [suscipio],

I a taking in hand , undertaking (good prose): quae proficiscuntur a virtute, susceptione primā, non perfectione, recta sunt judicanda, Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 32: laborum dolorumque, id. Ac. 1, 6, 23: causae, id. Mur. 1, 2: rerum istarum, Gell. 9, 3, 5.—

II An acceptance : fidelium, Ambros. in Luc. 6, 6.

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