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

(en verb)

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

* ...then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain... --Lev. 27:18, King James Version .

I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. .

To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

* He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 23:37, King James Version

* For him I reckon not in high estate. .

To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

* ...faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Romans 4:9, King James Version.

* Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. .

To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;

* For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. --Romans 8:18, King James Version.

* Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin... --Romans 6:11, King James Version

* I reckon he won't try that again.

To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

* Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reckon shall." .