Perceived vs Conceived - What's the difference?
perceived | conceived |
Generally recognized to be true.
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(perceive)
(conceive)
To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
* 1606 , , Shakespeare, II-4
* Gibbon
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To understand (someone).
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Jonathan Swift
(senseid)(intransitive, or, transitive) To become pregnant.
* Bible, Luke i. 36
As verbs the difference between perceived and conceived
is that perceived is (perceive) while conceived is (conceive).As an adjective perceived
is generally recognized to be true.perceived
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Adjective
(-)Ed Pilkington
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Derived terms
* perceivednessVerb
(head)- The alert officer perceived a dim shape in the distance.
conceived
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Verb
(head)conceive
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(conceiv)- We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
- 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.
- I conceive you.
- You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
- She hath also conceived a son in her old age.