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Conceive Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Conceive?
[v] become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"
[v] judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior" [v] have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived" Synonyms | Synonyms for Conceive: believe | conceptualise | conceptualize | consider | gestate | think Related Terms | Find terms related to Conceive: absorb | accept | account as | animate | appreciate | apprehend | assimilate | assume | author | be acquainted with | be afraid | be apprised of | be aware of | be cognizant of | be conscious of | be conversant with | be informed | be with one | bear | beget | believe | breathe life into | breed | bring about | bring forth | bring into being | bring into existence | bring to effect | bring to life | bring to pass | call into being | call into existence | catch | catch on | cause | cerebrate | cogitate | cognize | coin | come with child | compass | comprehend | conceit | conceptualize | conclude | concoct | conjure up | consider | contrive | cook up | couch | couch in terms | create | daresay | deduce | deem | design | develop | devise | dig | digest | discern | discover | divine | do | dream | dream up | effect | effectuate | embody in words | endow with life | energize | engender | entertain ideas | envisage | envision | establish | esteem | estimate | evolve | excogitate | exercise the mind | expect | experience imaginatively | express | fabricate | fancy | fantasize | father | fathom | feature | feel | fictionalize | follow | form | form ideas | formularize | formulate | found | frame | gather | generate | gestate | get | get hold of | get the drift | get the idea | get the picture | give being to | give birth | give birth to | give expression to | give life to | give occasion to | give origin to | give rise to | give words to | grant | grasp | guess | hatch | have | have a hunch | have an idea | have an impression | have an inkling | have information about | have it taped | have knowledge of | have the idea | heed | hold | hold as | hypothesize | ideate | image | imagine | improvise | inaugurate | infer | inspirit | institute | intellectualize | invent | judge | ken | know | learn | let | let be | look upon as | maintain | make | make do with | make out | make up | mark | master | mature | meditate | mint | mold | note | notice | observe | occasion | opine | originate | paragraph | perceive | phrase | plan | plot | ponder | posit | possess | postulate | prefigure | prehend | present | presume | presuppose | presurmise | procreate | produce | provisionally accept | put | put in words | quicken | read | realize | reason | reckon | recognize | regard | remark | repute | rhetorize | ruminate | savvy | say | see | seize | seize the meaning | sense | set afloat | set down as | set on foot | set out | set up | shape | sire | spawn | speculate | state | strike out | style | suggest | superfetate | suppose | surmise | suspect | take | take for | take for granted | take in | take it | take to be | think | think out | think up | trow | twig | understand | view as | vision | visualize | vitalize | vivify | ween | word | work | wot | wot of See Also | change state | copulate | couple | create by mental act | create mentally | design | discover | esteem | feel | find | hold | judge | look on | look upon | mate | pair | preconceive | reckon | regard | regard as | repute | rethink | see | superfetate | take to be | think of | turn | view Conceive In Webster's Dictionary \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.
She hath also conceived a son in her old age. --Luke
i. 36.
2. To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to
originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
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.
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of
falsehood. --Is. lix. 13.
3. To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the
mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
``I conceive you.'' --Hawthorne.
O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot
conceive nor name thee! --Shak.
You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in
the same climate. --Swift.
Syn: To apprehend; imagine; suppose; understand; comprehend;
believe; think.
\Con*ceive"\, v. i. 1. To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant. A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son. --Isa. vii. 14. 2. To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of. Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures. --I. Watts. |
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