Verb

(conceiv)

To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.

* 1606 , , Shakespeare, II-4

We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.

* Gibbon

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.

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To understand (someone).

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

I conceive you.

* Jonathan Swift

You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.

(senseid)(intransitive, or, transitive) To become pregnant.

* Bible, Luke i. 36

She hath also conceived a son in her old age.

Verb

(ensu)

(obsolete) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).

* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:

to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew , / Seeking aduentures [...].

* Golding

To ensue his example in doing the like mischief.

*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.11:

*:Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!

Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue .