susceptor

Latin . See susceptible.

susceptor (plural susceptors)

1. One who undertakes anything; specifically, a godfather; a sponsor; a guardian.
   • 1641, John Evelyn, The Diary of John Evelyn, Vol. 1, Macmillan and Co., published 1906, page 5:

     I had given me the name of my grandfather, my mother's father, who, together with a sister of Sir Thomas Evelyn of Long-Ditton, and Mr. Comber, a near relation of my mother, were my susceptors.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC:

     such susceptors were thought to put an obligation on the credits

2. A material used for its ability to absorb electromagnetic energy and convert it to heat, used in industrial heating and cooking.

• “susceptor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• cue sports, cuesports, cup-tosser, spectrous, suspector

susceptor m (genitive susceptōris); third declension

1. undertaker (person who undertakes to do something), contractor
2. receiver or collector of taxes

Third-declension noun.

• “susceptor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• susceptor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• susceptor in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016