suscipient

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

Etymology From Latin suscipiens.

Obsolete Receiving; admitting.

noun

Etymology From Latin suscipiens.

Business Obsolete One who takes or admits; one who receives.

But if the sacrament does not do - its work alone , but per modum - recipientis, according to the predispositions of the suscipient , then because infants can neither hinder it nor do any thing to further it , it does them no benefit at all1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:

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