Proper receptacle

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(Bot.)

a receptacle which supports only a single flower or fructification.

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A single assembly may be a proper receptacle of those slender, or rather fettered, authorities, which have been heretofore delegated to the federal head; but it would be inconsistent with all the principles of good government, to intrust it with those additional powers which, even the moderate and more rational adversaries of the proposed Constitution admit, ought to reside in the United States.

Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context

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