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▪ I. concept, n.|ˈkɒnsɛpt|
[Chiefly ad. L. concept-um (a thing) conceived, from pa. pple. of L. concip-ĕre to conceive; the pple. had also the sense ‘formal, in set form’; in late med.L. the n. had the sense ‘draft or abstract’, whence 16th c. F. concept, Ger. concept: see sense 3. In some early uses it was a refashioning of conceit (conceipt) after L.]
†1. = conceit, in various senses:
a. A thought, idea; = conceit n. 1.
b. Disposition, frame of mind; ibid. 2 c.
c. Imagination, fancy; ibid. 7.
d. Opinion; ibid. 4. Obs.
1556Abp. Parker Psalter cxix. 355 Thy precepts..I mel with them in my concepts. 1566–7Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 33 Being in this louing concept, hee extolled the prayse of his wife to one of his guarde. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiii. 20 We forge fantasticall toyes in our own concepts. 1575in Lodge Illust. Brit. Hist. (1791) II. 131 To confirm in hir Maty a former concept which had been labored to put into hir head. 1591in Camd. Soc. Misc. I. 37 Bigger (in my concepte) than all Westminster.
2. a. Logic and Philos. The product of the faculty of conception; an idea of a class of objects, a general notion or idea.
1663G. Harvey New Philos. i. 22 The Quiddity of a Being in general goeth more by the name of the Concept of a Being. Ibid. i. 66 Oviedo makes it a great difficulty to distinguish the concept of Peter and a horse. 1837–8Sir W. Hamilton Logic viii. (1859) I. 134 The concept horse..cannot, if it remain a concept, that is a universal attribution, be represented in imagination. Ibid. xv. (1866) I. 275 Concepts are merely the results, rendered permanent by language, of a previous process of comparison. 1864Bowen Logic 11 A Percept or Intuition is a single representation..a Concept is a collective (general or universal) representation of a whole class of things. 1884tr. Lotze's Logic 36 Concepts like ‘triangle’, ‘animal’, or ‘motion’.
b. Hence in weakened use, a general notion or idea, esp. in the context of marketing and design; a ‘theme’, a set of matching or co-ordinated items, of e.g. furniture, designed to be sold together. Chiefly advertisers' jargon.
1956M. DeVoe Effective Advertising Copy ix. 229 It is the uninformed group..that has never heard of the selling-point concept. 1970C. Ramond in R. Barton Handbk. Advertising Managem. xxii. 19 Techniques of testing product concepts in advertising could conceivably become as important as new physical research techniques have been to the chemical and metals industries. 1979D. Halberstam Powers that Be (1980) ii. 47 He was the man who invented the concept of a weekly news magazine. 1985Sunday Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 12 May 33/1 We aim to sell a total furnishing concept based on the ‘one pair of eyes’ principle.
c. attrib. and Comb.
1865S. H. Hodgson Time & Space iii. 197 A Begriff or Concept-form is that which is the Identity of contradictories. Ibid. vii. 347 Non-existence in this sense, or pure nothing, is a concept-name and not a concept. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xvi. 662 They form for him not so many odd facts, but a concept-system—so they stick. 1894Creighton & Titchener tr. Wundt's Hum. & Anim. Psychol. xxi. 310 They serve to invest the concept-idea with the consciousness of its vicarious significance, and with the resultant concept-feeling. 1896W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. iii. 123 The philosophy..of Kant, ‘der alles Zermalmende’, is in the first place the substitution of a regulative and verifiable philosophy for the old dogmatic concept-philosophy or theology. 1901J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 208/1 The concept triangle comprehends an indefinite multiplicity of actual or possible triangles. 1921E. Sapir Language ii. 28 Ever since the breakdown of English forms that set in about the time of the Norman Conquest, our language has been straining towards the creation of simple concept-words. 1923J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist i. 25 The attainment of the power of generalization—of reason, concept-formation, or what you will. 1938Mod. Lang. Rev. Oct. 555 This concept-chasing is a consequence of the more or less arbitrary ‘periodization’ of literary history. 1965N. Chomsky Theory of Syntax i. 32 The innate concept-forming abilities of the child.
3. nonce-use. [Ger. concept.] An original draft or rough copy (of a letter, etc.).
1869Mrs. Heaton A. Dürer i. iii. (1881) 60 This letter..the original concept for it is still preserved.
¶ The following is app. founded on explanations of L. conceptus, conceptio, in Cooper's Thesaurus.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Concept, a set Form; a term used in Publick Acts. 1721–1800Bailey, Concept, a set Form or Term used in Publick Acts.
▪ II. † conˈcept, v. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. conceptā-re to conceive in the womb, freq. of L. concipĕre to conceive.]
trans. To conceive (in the womb).
See also concepted.
1643R. O. Man's Mort. vi. 41 It [the Soul] is concepted by the woman through the concurrance of the seed of both sexes. ― Ibid. 46. |