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preconceive, v.|priːkənˈsiːv|
[pre- A. 1.]
trans. To conceive or imagine beforehand; to anticipate in thought.
1597Bacon Ess., Coulers Good & Evill (Arb.) 144 In a dead playne, the way seemeth the longer, because the eye hath preconceyued it shorter then the truth. 1701Norris Ideal World i. i. 37 The great Architect of the world præconceived and foreknew what he would make. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-Bks. (1872) I. 55 The Coliseum was very much what I had preconceived it.
Hence preconceived |priːkənˈsiːvd| ppl. a.
1580Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 291 Upoun preconsavit malice borne aganis hir thir mony yeris begane. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 205 Anticipated and pre⁓conceived Ideas of Regular Lines and Figures. a1704Locke Posth. Wks. (1706) 68 We must..not endeavour to bring things to any præ-conceived Notions of our own. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) I. ii. xvi. 367 Contrary to his preconceived notions. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 114. |