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REBUS, a Name-Device, asCambden englifhes it; oranenig- Manilian: gum cum Helium ita Neceffarium ft utjiegliginonpofftt:

Mistical Reprefentation of fome Name, &c. by uling a Figure, or Ita Magnum ut Accuratiffin.e ft Admimftrandum ; (? cum ei Impe-

Picture, inftead of a Word, or Part of a Word. See Devise, ratorcm praificere pojjitis, in quo ft eximia belli fcientia, fmgularisVir-

Such is that of the Gallant, mentioned by Cambden, who ex- tut, Clarijjima auctoritas, egregia fartuna : Dubitaliiis^ Quintet

prcfs'd his love to Rofe Hill, by painting in the Border of his quin.

Gown, a Rofe, a Hill, an Bye, a Loaf, and a Wall ; which in _ RECAPTION, in Law, a fecond Diftrefs of one formerly

'iftrain'd for the fame Caufc, and alfo during the Plea ^rounded

the .fete-Stile, reads, Rofe Hill J lov

■jjcll.

The Picards have the Honour of the Invention of this notable on the former Diftrefs. See Distress. Kind of Wit ; whence the French, to this Day, call it, Rebut ie It is alio a Writ lying for the Party thus diftrained. Ficardie. Cambden adds, that the Englijb firft learnt it of them RECEIPT, or Receit, in Commerce, an Acquittance or

in the Reign of our Henry III. by means of the Garrifons we then Difcharge ; or an Act: whereby it appears a thing has been paid

haa in Calais, Guifues, and other Places bordering on Picardy. off, or acquitted.

Its Origin is by Menage, (be. afcribed to the Priefts of Picardy, Where the Receit is on the back of a Bill, &c. 'tis ufually who, it teems, antiently, in Carnaval-Time, ufed every Year to cail'd an lndorfement . See Indorsement. make cer.ain Libels entitled, de Rebus qua geruntur, being Rail- Among Mechanicks, &e. Receit ufually makes the fecond of leries on what Intrigues and Tranfactioos had paffed about the the three Articles of an Account: The Receit contains the Mo- City; wherein they made great ufe of fuch fort of Equivoques neys received; the two others the Expence, and the Return or and Alluf ons, breaking and joining Words, and fupplying them BaUance. with Paintings. Receipt, or Resceit, in Law, is an Admiffion, orreceiving

Thus in the Rebus of Picardy, fays Morat, a Horfe-comb, of any Pcrfon to plead his Right, in a Caufe formerly commene'd

Etrille; a Scythe, faux; and a Calf, veau, make Etrille Fauveau. between two other Perfons.

But the Practice has been fince prohibited, by reafon of the As if a Tenant for Life, or Years, brings an A&ion ; he in

Scandal. the Reverfion comes in, and prays to be received, to defend the

Cambden tells us, the Rebus was in wonderful Efteem among Land, and to plead with the Demandant, our Forefathers; and that he was no-body who could not Ham- Rtfieit is alio applied to an Admittance of Plea, though the

mer out of his Name an Invention by this Wit-craft, and Picture Controvert be only between two. it accordingly. Rfceit of Homage is the Lord's receiving Homage of his Te-

The Sieur Det Accords, has made an ample Collection of the nant, at his admiffion to the Land. See Homage. molt famous Rebus de Picardie. And Mr. Cambden has dom

Receipt of the Exchequer, ? Receipt, in Medicine, 5

C Exchequer. <[Recipe.

RECEIVER, a Vcffel ufed in Chymiitry, Pncumaticks, &c. See Recipient.

Receiver, is alfo an Officer; whereof there are various Kinds, denominated from the particular Matters they Receive, the Places where, or the Perfons for whom, &c.

As, Receiver of Rents: Receiver General of the Cuftoms. MS.

fomething of the fame Kind in his Remains The Abbot 'of

Rarnfey, he tells us, engraved in his Seal a Ram in the Sea, with

this Verfe, to lhew he was a right Ram, Cuius fgna gero, dux

Cregis efl ut ego. — Sir Thomas Caval, (Caval iignifying a Horfe)

engraved a galloping Horfe in his Seal, with this limping Verfc,

1hom<e Creditis, cum ceruitis ejus Equum. — Ho John EagteJIjeadbose

in his Seal an Eagle's Head with this Motto around it, Hoc AquiU

Caput eft, fgnumq; figurj yohamiis. Bolton, Prior of St. Bartholomew's, fignified his Name by a

Bolt thruft through a Tun.—Jfiip, Abbot of Weftminfter, aMan See Custo.

highly in favour with Henry VII. had a quadruple Rebus for his Receiver of the Fines, upon Original Writs in Chancery.

lingle Name; fometimes he fet up in his Windows an Eye with Receiver General of the Dutchy of Lancafter, who gathers

a Slip of a Tree ; and fometimes an I with the hiASlip: in other all the Revenues and Fines of the Lands of the faid Dutchy, all

Places one flipping Boughs in a Tree; and in others, one flipping Forfeitures, Affefsmenis, «£c. See Dutchy, (&c,

from a Tree; with the Word, 1-flip. Receiver, Receptor, and Receptator, in Law, is ufed

Thomas, Earl of Arundel, fignified his Name by a Capital A commonly in the Evil Patt, for fuch as knowingly receive ftollen

in a Rundle. Morton, the great Archbifhop of Canterbury, was Goods from Thieves, and conceal them.

contented to ufe Mor upon a Tun; and fometimes a Mulberry The Crime is Felony, and the Punifhment Tranfportation

cail'd Morus, out of a Tun. So Luton, Thornton, Afiton, &c. RECEPTACULU M Chyli, or Cifierna Chyli, or Recepta-

fignified their Names with a Lute, a Tloorn, an Aflj, upon a Tun. culum Commune, in Anatomy, a Refervoir or Cavity near the

So a Hare on a Bottle was the Device of Harebottle; a Mag-pye left Kidney, into which the laflcal Veffels do all Difcharge their

on a Goat, of Pigot; a Hare by a Sheaf ot Rye in the Sun, of Contents. See Lacteal.

Harrifon: Lionel Ducket ufed a Lion with an L on its Head, This Receiver, cail'd from its Inventor Du&ns Pecqueticus, lies whereas it fliould have been on its Tail : Had the Lion been eat- under the Emulgent and great Arteties, between the two Origins ing a Duck, fays Cambden, it had been a rare Device, worth a of the Diaphragma. Hither do the lafleal /effels of the fc- Duckat or a Duck-egg. Garret Dews fignified his Name on his cond Order, bring the Chyle after its being diluted, and render'd Sign by two Men in a Garret calling Dews at Dice. thinner by the Lympha in the Glands of the Mefcntery. See

AklDrugger's Device in Ben. Johnfon's A/chimift, vnAJackof Chyle and Mesentery. Newberry in rhe Speftaror, are known to every Body.— But the In a Preparation of this Part, by filling it with Mercury, Mr Rebus being once rais'd to the Signs, grew out of Fafhion at Onper'foaai it to confift ot three feveral large Trunks; two of Courr, and has been left to hang there ever fince : Indeed At- them more than a Quarter of an Inch in Diameter, tempts have been lately made for its Refcue by a Reverend Di- This Divilion is only obferved in human Bodies, in whom Dr vine, in his Tunbridge-Love-Letters, &c. Drake thinks its ered Pofition makes it Tiecefliry, in order to

Yet has the Rebus Antiquity on its Side, as having been in ufe take off the Refinance which would aiife from the Pr dure of in the pure Auguftan Age : Cicero, in a Dedication to the Gods, the Chyle and Lympha, were it contained in a iingle Receiver infcribed Marcus Tullms, with a little Peafe, cail'd by the Latins In Quadrupeds, its Horizontal Pofition may make one Trunk Cicer ; by us, Chich-Peafe. And Julius Oefar, in fome of his lufticient.

Coins, ufed an Elephant, cail'd Cmfir in the Mamitama* Tongue. Its ofiuli or Exit is upwards in the Thorax, and thence cail'd Add to thefe, that the two Mint Matters in that Age, L. Aqullius the Thoraic Dult. Sec Thoraic Duct.

Flons, znd Voconius Vilnius, ukd, the foli a Flower, the fecond a RECEPTION, Receptio, Receiving, in Philofophy the c 4™* c Revcrfe of their Coins. fame with Paffion, confidercd as oppoled to Ailion

REBUTTER, in Law, when a Man grants Land fecured to The Schoolmen, however, make fome Difference ■ The Re the ufe of himfclr and thelffueof hisBody, to another in Fee, with cpetive Palflon, fay they, does not tend to the deftruftion of the Warranty ; and the Donee leafing out the Land to a third Per- Being, as Paffion does ; but to the Perfeflion thereof ■ It is con- ■™ Y f' : ^he Heir of the Donor impleads the Tenant; ceived as the Acquisition of fome new Reality or Modification, alledgmg the Land was in Tail to him ; and the Donee comes in, by means of the Action of another

and by virtue of the Warranty made by the Donor, repells, or Reception is alfo popularly ufed for the manner of treating rebutts, the Heir : Becaule, though the Land was mtailed to him, or entertaining a Perfon ; and of the Solemnities and Ceremoni! yet he is Heir to the Warranror hkewife. prafliced on that Occafion

This is cail'd a Rebutter, from Re, and the French, kuter, to The Queen of Sweden's Reception into Par* was one of the repel, or bar molt Magnificent thefe Ages have feen. The Reception of Em-

Agam, if I grant ro^heTenantm hold Sine Jmpetitione Vafti, baffadors is ufually done with a gteatdeal of Pomp

he may^ debar me of Reception, is fometimes alfo ufed for the act of approving,

and afterwards implead him for Wafte , the Action, by (hewing my Grant, which is likewife a Re- butter.

RECANTATION. See Paunody.

RECAPITULATION, in Oratory, &c. a Part of the Pe- roration; cail'd alio, Anacephaleofs. See Peroration, &c.

Recapitulation is a fummary of the preceding Difcourfe; or a

accepting, and admitting a thing.

The Canon Law only binds where it is receiv'd : The Civil Law is received in fome Countries.

The French would never receive the Council of Trent, theSpa- nifh Inquilition, nor the Dogmata of the Ultramoulane Cano- nifts.

concife, tran dent Enumeration of the principal things inlifted on Reception, in Afttology, is a Dignity befalling two Planets

at large therein; whereby the Force of the whole is collected in- when they exchange Houfes; e. gr. when the Sun arrives in Can-

to one View. . -• - cer, the Houfe of the Moon; and the Moon, in her turn, ar-

An kftance of this may be given in the Peroration of Cicero's rives in the Sun's Houfe.

The