Conceit vs Crotchet - What's the difference?
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Conceit is a related term of crotchet. In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between conceit and crotchet is that conceit is (obsolete) to form an idea; to think while crotchet is (obsolete) to play music in measured time. As nouns the difference between conceit and crotchet is that conceit is (obsolete) something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought while crotchet is (music) a musical note one beat long in 4/4 time. As verbs the difference between conceit and crotchet is that conceit is (obsolete) to form an idea; to think while crotchet is to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet.
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* (obsolete)
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)
Derived terms
* conceited
* conceitedly
* conceitedness
* self-conceit
Verb
( en verb)
(obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
* 1643 : , The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- Those whose vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
(obsolete) To conceive.
* South
- The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive as if they really were so.
* Shakespeare
- One of two bad ways you must conceit me, / Either a coward or a flatterer.
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crotchet Noun
( en noun)
(music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook (obsolete except in crochet hook).
(archaic) a whim or a fancy
* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
- Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets , thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms
* De Quincey
- He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
A forked support; a crotch.
* Dryden
- The crotchets of their cot in columns rise.
(military, historical) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
(military) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
(printing) A bracket.
Synonyms
* (musical note) quarter note (US)
Derived terms
* crotchety
Verb
( en verb)
to make needlework by looping thread with a hooked needle; to crochet
(obsolete) to play music in measured time
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(punctuation) bracket
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