To conceive is to come up with an idea. If you conceive a plan for your little brother's birthday, you dream up the perfect party, complete with a magician, rented ponies, and a cake shaped like a rocket.
To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
Verb
become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"
Verb
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"
Verb
have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"
v. t.
To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin
the formation of the embryo of.
v. t.
To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate;
to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
v. t.
To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into
the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
v. i.
To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to
breed; to become pregnant.
v. i.
To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with
of.
Conceive
She hath also conceived a son in her old age.2.
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.
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.3.
O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!
You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
Conceive
A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son.2.
Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures.
To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
Usage Examples
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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Other Usage ExamplesI conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
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