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Conceive
CONCEIVE, v.t. [L., to take.]
1. To receive into the womb, and breed; to begin the formation of the embryo or fetus of animal.
Then shall she be free and conceive seed. Num 5. Heb 11.
Elisabeth hath conceived a son in her old age. Luke 1.
In sin did my mother conceive me. Psa 51.
2. To form in the mind; to imagine; to devise.
They conceive mischief and bring forth vanity. Job 15.
Nebuchadnezzar hath conceived a purpose against you. Jer 49.
3. To form an idea in the mind; to understand; to comprehend.
We cannot conceive the manner in which spirit operates upon matter.
4. To think; to be of opinion; to have an idea; to imagine.
You can hardly conceive this man to have been bred in the same climate.
CONCEIVE, v.i.
1. To have a fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
Thou shalt conceive and bear a son. Judg 13.
2. To think; to have a conception or idea.
Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their own natures. The grieved commons hardly conceive of me.
3. To understand; to comprehend; to have a complete idea of; as, I cannot conceive by what means this event has been produced.
conceive appears in definitions for these words:
Apprehend Apprehended Apprehender Apprehensible Apprehension Asymptote Atom Brain Chimerical Collect Comprehend Conceit Conceited Conceivable Conceive Conceiver Conceptacle Conceptible Conception Conceptious Cycloid Energetic Enigmatic Enthymeme Fancied Female Fore-imagine Formality Gain Grand Idea Image Imaginable Imagination Imagine Inconceivable Independent Look Magnificently Manifest Mind Mistake Opined Oppugn Orb Perceivable Perceptible Preconceive Preconceived Pregnancy Prepensed Proud Shape Shaped Son Superfetate Superfete Syllepsis Teem Think Unconceivable Unimaginable Unimagined Variation Want Womb
Apprehend Apprehended Apprehender Apprehensible Apprehension Asymptote Atom Brain Chimerical Collect Comprehend Conceit Conceited Conceivable Conceive Conceiver Conceptacle Conceptible Conception Conceptious Cycloid Energetic Enigmatic Enthymeme Fancied Female Fore-imagine Formality Gain Grand Idea Image Imaginable Imagination Imagine Inconceivable Independent Look Magnificently Manifest Mind Mistake Opined Oppugn Orb Perceivable Perceptible Preconceive Preconceived Pregnancy Prepensed Proud Shape Shaped Son Superfetate Superfete Syllepsis Teem Think Unconceivable Unimaginable Unimagined Variation Want Womb
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