Citations:receptacle


 * 1) A container.
 * 2) * 1818, anonymous &#91;Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley&#93;, chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In Three Volumes, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones,, 682152368 ; republished as Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; no. IX), rev. and corr. edition, London: Richard Bentley, ; Bell & Bradfute Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin, 1839,  316824153 , page 38:
 * Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.