Received

Quick meaning: Received is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of receive.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of receive.

More Meanings

1. Generally accepted as correct or true.

Example Sentences

The old saying goes that we should not judge a man until we have walked a mile in his shoes. As with so much received wisdom – from judging books by their covers to the relative exchange rate for birds in hands and bushes – this is of course rubbish.

And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.

Word Forms

• receiv'd

Synonyms for received

Depending on context, synonyms include standard, conventional, normative, acceptable, accepted, prescriptive.

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Related dictionary entries include accepted, acceptable, prescriptive, normative, conventional, standard.

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