Reprise vs Conceived - What's the difference?
reprise | conceived |
A recurrence or resumption of an action.
(music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
(fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position.
A taking by way of retaliation.
(legal, in the plural) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
(obsolete) To take (something) up or on again.
* , II.xi:
To repeat or resume an action
(obsolete) To recompense; to pay.
(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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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
To understand (someone).
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Jonathan Swift
(senseid)(intransitive, or, transitive) To become pregnant.
* Bible, Luke i. 36
As verbs the difference between reprise and conceived
is that reprise is while conceived is (conceive).reprise
English
Noun
(wikipedia reprise) (en noun)- (Dryden)
- (Burrill)
Verb
(repris)- How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize .
See also
* reprisalAnagrams
* * ----conceived
English
Verb
(head)conceive
English
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.