† receipter Obs.
Forms: 4 resceitour, 5 receytour, 5–7 receitor, 6 reyceter, 7 receipter.
[a. AF. *receitour, var. OF. receteur resetter. Cf. receipt v.1]
One who receives or harbours criminals or stolen goods.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 294 Þei maken holy Chirche a bande of here synne, and resceitour of here raveyn. 1487 Act 3 Hen. VII, c. 11 §11 That such mysdoers..procurators to the same and receytours..be hensforth reputed and juged as principall felons. 1537 in Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) III. 418 An old man, who with his two sons, being arrant thieves, were the receitors. 1579–80 North Plutarch (1895) III. 360 Such as the pyrates and sea rovers had hidden being parte of their spoyles and bestowed with their receitors. 1626 Jackson Creed viii. vi. §4 Shee alone..committed the robbery in taking the forbidden fruit from off the tree, her husband was the receipter onely. |