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conceptive, a.|kənˈsɛptɪv|
[ad. L. conceptīv-us, f. concept-: see above and -ive. Cf. mod.F. conceptif, -ive.]
Having the faculty or attribute of conceiving.
1. Conceiving (in the womb), apt to conceive; also transf. (rare.)
1643R. O. Man's Mort. iii. 14 By her powers Formative or conceptive. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. vii. 352 Where the uterine parts exceed in heat, by the coldnesse hereof they may bee reduced into a conceptive constitution. 1868Bailey Festus, The..sun hath sown The soil conceptive with the seed of gold.
2. Conceiving (in the mind); of or pertaining to (mental) conception.
1640Hobbes Hum. Nat. i. §7 Of the powers of the mind there be two sorts, cognitive, imaginative or conceptive and motive. 1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 164 That celebrated distinction of the Platonic School of the Divine Mind into..conceptive and Exhibitive. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. xxii. (1737) 100 Their conceptive, cogitative Faculties. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 126 With a conceptive imagination vigorous beyond any in his generation.
†3. As a rendering of L. conceptīvus, applied to certain festivals celebrated annually, not on fixed days, but on days appointed by the priests or magistrates. Obs. rare.
1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 81 Macrobius saith, there are foure kindes of publike holy-dayes..Stative, Conceptive, Imperative, and nundinative.
Hence conˈceptiveness, conceptive faculty.
1819P. Morris in Blackw. Mag. VI. 312 Wit..belongs to a different class from conceptiveness, and is an intellectual power. |