Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Receipted
receipt (-ed)receive (-d, -s, received, receiving)
receipted, verbal adj. [see receipt, n.] (webplay: grace).
- Secure; already received; [word play] documented as true; certified on paper; verified as real.
- Taken; [word play on “receded”] departing; dying; deteriorating; failing; expiring; fading; dwindling; subsiding; passing away.
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