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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
conceived
adj : formed in the mind [syn: {formed}]
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