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Recipe (3 syl.), Receipt

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Recĭpe is Latin for take, and contracted into R is used in doctor’s prescriptions. The dash through the R is an abbreviated form of ♃, the symbol of Jupiter, and R means Recĭpe, deo volente.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Real Presence
Rear-mouse or Rere-mouse
Reason
Rebecca
Rebeccaites
Rebellion (The)
Rebus (Latin, with things)
Reception (To get a)
Rechabites
Receipt
Recipe
Reck his own Rede (To)
Reckon (I)
Reckoning without your Host
Reclaim
Recorded
Recreant
Rector
Reculer pour Mieux Sauter
Reculver
Red