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

(foreconceiv)

To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.

*, II.17:

*:I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived .

*2007 , Christopher D. Morris, The Figure of the Road :

To imagine the new is to foreconceive , as in the Heideggerian Vorlage, which can only be expressed in language.

*2012 , Irene E. Harvey, Labyrinths of Exemplarity: At the Limits of Deconstruction :

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).