One who receives or accepts something; a recipient.
From Latin 'accipiens' meaning 'receiving,' present participle of 'accipere' (to receive or accept). Rare in modern English but still used in specialized philosophical contexts.
This is basically a dead word replaced by 'recipient,' but medieval logic used it as a technical term to describe the thing that receives action—it's the mirror of 'agent' in the philosophy of causation.
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