Verb

(en verb)

To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.

* Shakespeare

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.

Air conveys''' sound; words '''convey ideas.

To communicate; to make known; to portray.

to convey''' an impression; to '''convey information

* John Locke

Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.

(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).

He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.

* Spenser

The Earl of Desmond secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.

(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.

* Shakespeare

I will convey the business as I shall find means.

(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

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.