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1 definition found 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.
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