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conceive

verb
/kənˈsiːv/

Etymology

From Middle English conceyven, from Old French concevoir, conceveir, from Latin concipiō, concipere (“to devise, to conceive”).

  1. derived from concipio
  2. derived from concevoir
  3. inherited from conceyven

Definitions

  1. To have a child

    To have a child; to become pregnant (with).

    • Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive.
    • She hath also conceived a son in her old age.

  2. To develop

    To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.

    • 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.
    • At the mouth of the cave we found a single litter with six bearers, all of them mutes, waiting, and with them I was relieved to see our old friend Billali, for whom I had conceived a sort of affection.
    • There are, moreover, grounds for thinking that the Rosaline of Love’s Labour’s Lost was originally conceived of by Shakespeare as pale with black eyes—...

  3. To imagine (as)

    To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.

    • Can you conceive of him as a leader?
    • We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
    • […]you will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the ſame Climate […]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To understand (someone).

      • I conceive you.

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Derived

conceivability, conceivable, conceiver, foreconceive, malconceived, misconceive, nonconceiving, preconceive, reconceive, unconceived, unconceiving

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at conceive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at conceive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at conceive

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA