Verb

(disclos)

(obsolete) To open up, unfasten.

* Francis Bacon

The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.

To uncover, physically expose to view.

* Woodward

The shells being broken, the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.

* 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:

Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.

To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.

* Alexander Pope

Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .

* Addison

If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.

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.