Noun

(obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.

* Francis Bacon

In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.

* Bible, Proverbs xxvi. 12

a man wise in his own conceit

The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.

a man of quick conceit

* Sir Philip Sidney

How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

* Shakespeare

His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.

(obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.

* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :

By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte .

(countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.

* L'Estrange

On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit .

* Alexander Pope

Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.

* Dryden

Tasso is full of conceits which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.

(countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.

(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.

* Cotton

Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.

Design; pattern.

(Shakespeare)

Noun

(en noun)

(label) Moist vapour, moisture.

Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.

*, Book I, New York 2001, p. 147:

A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.

* 1763 , (Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz), History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) p. 42:

For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour , when pressed, that portended danger.

(label) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

(label) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

a prince of a pleasant humour

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I like not the humour of lying.

* (1633?-1684)

Examine how your humour is inclined, / And which the ruling passion of your mind.

* (Robert South) (1634–1716)

Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humours to be endured?

*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)

, title=, chapter=1 , passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”}}

(label) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)

For thy sake I admit / That a Scot may have humour , I'd almost said wit.

* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)

A great deal of excellent humour was expended on the perplexities of mine host.

*

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour .}}