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Conceit
CONCEIT, n. [L., to take or seize.]
1. Conception; that which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image.
In laughing there ever precedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous, and therefore it is proper to man.
2. Understanding; power or faculty of conceiving; apprehension; as a man of quick conceit. [Nearly antiquated.]
How often did her eyes say to me, that they loved! Yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
3. Opinion; notion; fancy; imagination; fantastic notion; as a strange or odd conceit.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. Prov 26.
4. Pleasant fancy; gayety of imagination.
On the way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit.
5. A striking thought; affected or unnatural conception.
Some to conceit alone their works confine.
6. Favorable or self-flattering opinion; a lofty or vain conception of ones own person or accomplishments.
By a little study and a great conceit of himself, he has lost his religion.
Out of conceit with, not having a favorable opinion of; no longer pleased with; as, a man is out of conceit with his dress. Hence to put one out of conceit with, is to make him indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.
CONCEIT, v.t. To conceive; to imagine; to think; to fancy.
The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, thereby rendered inactive.
conceit appears in definitions for these words:
Affectioned Arrogance Arrogant Catch Comply Conceit Conceited Conceitedly Conceitedness Conception Concetto Consequential Conundrum Coxcomical Crank Crotchet Dream Earthy Enthusiasm Enthusiastic Exaltedness Farce Force Fume High-blown Huff Humorist Humorousness Imagination Inflation Opinionately Opinioned Overween Overweening Overweeningly Poesy Pointed Pride Prig Princock Proud Puff Quibble Quirk Receipt Render Retrieve Revery Sufficiency Thought Toy Under Vain Vanity Vaunter
Affectioned Arrogance Arrogant Catch Comply Conceit Conceited Conceitedly Conceitedness Conception Concetto Consequential Conundrum Coxcomical Crank Crotchet Dream Earthy Enthusiasm Enthusiastic Exaltedness Farce Force Fume High-blown Huff Humorist Humorousness Imagination Inflation Opinionately Opinioned Overween Overweening Overweeningly Poesy Pointed Pride Prig Princock Proud Puff Quibble Quirk Receipt Render Retrieve Revery Sufficiency Thought Toy Under Vain Vanity Vaunter
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