It is the nearest thing to a passive Recipiency-is it not?
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
Milton, carefully grounded in the tongues, went in due course to Cambridge University, and during those years when the youthful mind is in its stage of richest Recipiency, lived among the kind of men who haunt seats of learning,-on the whole, the most uninteresting men in existence, whose very knowledge is a learned ignorance; not bees of industry, who have hoarded information by experience, but book-worms....
"Stories of Authors, British and American"
Edwin Watts Chubb