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Conceiving
(gcide) | Conceive \Con*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conceived; p. pr. &
vb. n. Conceiving.] [OF. conzoivre, concever, conceveir, F.
concevoir, fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- +
capere to seize or take. See Capable, and cf.
Conception.]
1. To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the
formation of the embryo of.
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She hath also conceived a son in her old age. --Luke
i. 36.
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2. To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to
originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
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It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first
conceived the idea of a work which has amused and
exercised near twenty years of my life. --Gibbon.
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Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of
falsehood. --Is. lix. 13.
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3. To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the
mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
"I conceive you." --Hawthorne.
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O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart
Cannot conceive nor name thee! --Shak.
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You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in
the same climate. --Swift.
Syn: To apprehend; imagine; suppose; understand; comprehend;
believe; think.
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Conceiving
(gcide) | Conceive \Con*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conceived; p. pr. &
vb. n. Conceiving.] [OF. conzoivre, concever, conceveir, F.
concevoir, fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- +
capere to seize or take. See Capable, and cf.
Conception.]
1. To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the
formation of the embryo of.
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She hath also conceived a son in her old age. --Luke
i. 36.
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2. To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to
originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
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It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first
conceived the idea of a work which has amused and
exercised near twenty years of my life. --Gibbon.
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Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of
falsehood. --Is. lix. 13.
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3. To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the
mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
"I conceive you." --Hawthorne.
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O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart
Cannot conceive nor name thee! --Shak.
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You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in
the same climate. --Swift.
Syn: To apprehend; imagine; suppose; understand; comprehend;
believe; think.
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Misconceiving
(gcide) | Misconceive \Mis`con*ceive"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.
Misconceived; p. pr. & vb. n. Misconceiving.]
To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a
false notion of; to misunderstand; to misjudge; to
misapprehend.
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Those things which, for want of due consideration
heretofore, they have misconceived. --Hooker.
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Syn: To misapprehend; misunderstand; mistake.
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Preconceiving
(gcide) | Preconceive \Pre`con*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Preconceived; p. pr. & vb. n. Preconceiving.]
To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a
previous notion or idea of.
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In a dead plain the way seemeth the longer, because the
eye hath preconceived it shorter than the truth.
--Bacon.
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Unconceiving
(gcide) | Unconceiving \Unconceiving\
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