atw: Re: Macquarie dictionary -- receival
- From: Michael Edward Granat <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:34:11 +1100
Well there you go then, Michael (L)
<http://www.onelook.com/> came back with:
"Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the
word receival."
That's where the human factor (yourself) should take a bow.
Obviously wasn't in any medieval armour dictionaries.
Cheers,
Michael Granat
Write Ideas
At 23:02 21/2/2005, you wrote:
>Don't be too hasty. The word is well attested; the OED dates it to 1637.
>It's perfectly well formed, by analogy with refusal, rebuttal, etc. I'm
>sufficiently familiar with it that I was surprised by the question. So it's
>certainly not an Australian coinage. I'm surprised that it doesn't appear in
>the Macquarie Dictionary (though I don't have my own copy handy, and I'm
>wondering whether other respondents have checked the Big Mac or merely one
>of the smaller offspring).
>
>
>Michael Lewis
Michael E. Granat
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