foreconceive

verb

Etymology

From fore- + conceive.

  1. derived from concipio
  2. derived from concevoir
  3. inherited from conceyven
  4. prefixed as foreconceive — “fore + conceive

Definitions

  1. To conceive or imagine beforehand

    To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.

    • I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived.
    • To imagine the new is to foreconceive, as in the Heideggerian Vorlage, which can only be expressed in language.
    • Thus one ought to “color”—foreconceive or frame—the other. The more familiar will be thought to be an example, Aristotle says, yet he also defines the example as this total relation of incompleteness: part to part (without wholes).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foreconceive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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