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RECANATI 450 RECIPROCAL Coppetin Switzerland (1806). Here she met Prince Augxist of Prussia, who alone of all her innumerabb admirers is sup- posed to have touched her heart. The most distinguished friend of her later years was M. de Chateaubriand. In 1846 he became a lAadower, and he then wished to marry Madame Recamier, whose husband had been dead since 1830, but the lady declined. She died May 11, 1849. Her "Recollections and Corre- spondence" were edited by her niece, Madame Lenormant in 1859. RECANATI, a town of Italy, 15 miles S. of Ancona; has a Gothic cathedral with a monument to Pope Gregory XII. Here Leopardi was born. Porto Reca- nati is 6 miles N. E. on the Adriatic coast. RECAPTION, in law, recaption or re- prisal is another species of remedy by the mere act of the party injured. This happens when anyone has deprived an- other of his property in goods or chat- tels personal, or wrongfully detains one's wife, child, or servant; in which case the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or master, may lawfully claim and retake them, wherever he happens to find them; so it be not in a riotous manner, or attended with a breach of the peace. RECEIPT, a written document, de- claring that certain goods or a sum of money have been received. A receipt, though evidence of payment, is not abso- lute proof, and this evidence may be rebutted by proving that it was given under misapprehension. RECEIVER, a person specially ap- pointed by a court of justice to receive the rents and profits of land, or the produce of other property, which is in dispute in a cause in that court. The name is also given to a person appointed in suits concerning the estates of in- fants, or against executors, or between partners in business, or insolvents, for the purpose of winding up the concern. RECEIVER OF STOLEN GOODS, one who takes stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen, and incurs the guilt of partaking in the crime. If the theft amounts to felony the punish- ment is penal servitude of from 3 to 14 years, or imprisonment for two years; if a misdemeanor, penal servitude from three to seven years, or imprisonment for not above two years. In the United States the penalty is fixed by statutes in the several States. RECENT, in geology, a term applied to a division of the post-Tertiary in which all the mammalia, as well as all the shells, are identical with living species. In certain places it is difficult to draw a distinction between the Recent and the Pleistocene deposits. Alluvium brought down by rivers, modern peat, the Clyde marine strata with canoes, the kitchen middens of Denmark, and the lake dwellings of Switzerland belong to the Recent period. RECEPTACLE, in botany: (1) Any part which supports another part. The receptacle of a flower is the top of the peduncle on which the flowers are in- serted. It may be a flattened area, or a vanishing point, or may be greatly dilat- ed. The receptable of a fruit is its torus. The receptacle of an ovule is the pla- centa. The receptacle of the sporangia in a fern is the vein passing through their axis. (2) A cavity for the re- ception of any substance. The recep- tacle of oil is one of the cysts which contain it, as, for instance, those on the rind of the orange. RECHABITE, a member of a section of the Kenites, called in Hebrew recha- bim, from Rechab (= the horseman; rachab = to ride), the father of Jonadab, who enjoined his descendants to abstain from wine, from building houses, sowing seed, and planting vineyards, and com- manded them to dwell in tents (Jer. xxxv: 2-19). Wolff mentions an inter- view he had with a nomadic Jew near Senaa, who claimed to be a descendant of Jonadab, stating that his tribe were 60,- 000 in number, and adhered to their ancient laws, and that they were a liv- ing fulfillment of the prophecy of Jer. xxxv: 19. Hence, one who abstains from alcoholic beverages; a teetotaler. Also a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a friendly society founded on temperance principles, "so that ab- stainers could be united together, and have the privileges of a benefit society as well." The first meeting was held at the Temperance Hotel, Bolton sti-eet, Salford, Lancaster, England, Aug. 25, 1835. The Rechabite pledge is extremely stringent and far-reaching, but the order is steadily increasing in Great Britain, and has been introduced into the United States, Canada and Australia. Their lodges are called "tents" in allusion to Jer. xxxv: 7. The Independent Order of Rechabite was established in the United States in 1842. Its headquarters are at Washington, D. C. The total number of members in the United States on Jan. 1, 1921, was 538,078. RECIPROCAL, in grammar, reflexive. Applied to verbs which have as an object a pronoun standing for the subject; as, "Bethink yourself." It is also applied