单词 | conceiter |
释义 | conceitern.ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > one who likes or favours loverc1350 good-willer?1468 liker1532 conceiter1589 affectionate1628 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. B2 The Dolphines (the sweete conceipters of Musicke) fetcht their carreers on the calmed waues. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 5 Thus much..to our inueterate conceiters of bowes and blacke billes. 1834 Caledonian Mercury 28 Apr. 3/6 A Fellow, well known to the Police as a conceiter of other people's property, particularly in Dogs, was overhauled by a Watchman. 2. A person who imagines or conceives of something; an inventor. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > creator or inventor craftsmana1382 feigner1382 finderc1384 finder-upc1425 engineer?a1513 finder-out1534 inventor1555 conceiver1581 conceiter1603 conceitist1628 commenter1645 ideas man1845 think-man1967 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xxi. 35 These Monster-swarmes his Hol: & his helly crue haue scraped, and raked together out of old doating heathen Historiographers,..Chimaerial conceiters, & coyners of fables. 1604 T. Bilson Suruey Christs Sufferings 383 No words of mine, nor of any auncient father come neere those deuices of yours, which are knowen to no man either by reading or feeling, but to such conceiters as you are. 1932 R. Macauley They were Defeated i. xii. 92 Pox take the fools: there is no witches, I say, but in the silly gaping minds o' their conceiters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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