conceptiveadj.

Brit.

/kənˈsɛptɪv/, U.S.

/kənˈsɛptɪv/

Forms: 1600s conceptiue, 1600s– conceptive.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin conceptīvus ; conception n., -ive suffix.

Etymology: Partly < classical Latin conceptīvus (of holidays) proclaimed (because not held on the same day every year), movable ( < concept- , past participial stem of concipere conceive v. + -īvus -ive suffix), and partly < its elements concept- (in conception n.) + -ive suffix. Compare Middle French, French conceptif of or relating to the conception of offspring (1562 in an isolated attestation, subsequently from 1801), (of the mind) apt to conceive or form ideas (1819 in esprit conceptif), Spanish conceptivo (1589, earliest in sense ‘of or relating to the conception of offspring’; rare before the 19th cent.).

†1. Chiefly Roman History. Designating a festival celebrated not on a fixed day, but on a day appointed annually by a priest or magistrate. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1609 G. Buddle Short & Plaine Disc. Euangelicall Fastes iii. 54 (side note) Conceptiue Fasts.

1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 81 Macrobius saith, there are foure kinds of publike holy-dayes..Stative, Conceptive; Imperative, and nundinative.

1819 J. C. Prichard Anal. Egyptian Mythol. 98 That the Egyptians, like the Romans, had conceptive as well as stative festivals, appears very probable.

2. Of or relating to the conception of offspring. Also: likely to conceive; favourable to conception; fertile. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective]

bearingOE

genderinga1398

multiplyinga1400

fecundc1420

broodya1522

fruitful1526

breeding1552

procreant1588

procreative1598

increasing1600

broodious1602

prolifical1608

conceptiousa1616

plenteousa1616

conceptive1630

feracious1637

propagatory1647

prolific1650

proliferous1654

propagative1654

progenial1664

teemful1755

progenitive1769

breedy1824

proligerous1836

progenital1837

philoprogenitive1857

eugenesic1864

1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 276 Those are most fruitfull and fertile in rendering fruit..which partake most of cold and moist: which position intendeth the conceptive part.

1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie iii. 14 By her powers Formative or conceptive.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. vii. 352 Where the uterine parts exceed in heat, by the coldnesse hereof they may bee reduced into a conceptive constitution.

1740 E. Smith Forty Two Serm. II. ix. 167 Such a Subject..is pregnant and conceptive of all the Truths and Duties of the Gospel.

1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia iv. 44 If pyritæ have no generative, they can not be endued with a conceptive power for silver.

1864 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 7) 320 The..sun hath sown The soil conceptive with the seed of gold.

1875 H. Ellison Stones from Quarry 154 With that May-long kiss her womb doth teem Conceptive, in its many-childedness.

1926 Spectator 1 May 804/2 Conceptive control has been an almost entirely harmful or dysgenic factor.

2010 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107 2130/1 We found that the subordinate males obtained significantly more conceptive opportunities than predicted by priority of access alone.

3. Of or relating to mental conception.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [adjective]

conceiving1592

conceptive1650

ideal1800

ideative1852

ideational1853

conceptualizing1878

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [adjective]

ideal1611

conceptive1650

conceptional1738

conceptual1825

notional1839

idealist1856

ideate1966

1650 T. Hobbes Humane Nature i. 4 Of the powers of the Mind there be two sorts, Cognitive and Imaginative, or Conceptive and Motive.

1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 207 That celebrated distinction of the Platonic School, of the Divine Mind into..Conceptive and Exhibitive.

1703 S. Nye Inst., conc. Holy Trinity ii. 160 The difference (of the Persons) is not..Rational, that is Conceptive Notional or Verbal only.

1788 Compl. Art of Boxing 20 The mind must not be ruffled or agitated, nor no painful sensation suffered to invade the conceptive faculties.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 219 In strict and severe propriety of language I should have said..Concipiencies or Conceptive Acts rather than conceptions.

1866 J. R. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 428 With a conceptive imagination vigorous beyond any in his generation.

1926 Musical Q. 12 232 The difference between the two kinds of semi-tones is..confined to the conceptive faculty, the ideation, of the hearer.

1996 Irish Times (Nexis) 20 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 8 When a poet..attempts to transform himself from a perceptive into a conceptive being..it is not surprising to find a critic getting lost in the fog.

Derivatives

conˈceptiveness n. now rare the capacity to conceive; the state of being conceptive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [noun]

conceptiona1387

conceitc1405

conceptiveness1819

conceptuality1836

representationa1856

1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 312/1 Wit..belongs to a different class from conceptiveness, and is an intellectual power.

1880 Musical Times 1 May 217/2 The musician must turn his eyes inwards rather than outwards; looking not to the phenomena of things, of which his art in its conceptiveness is independent, but to their essential nature.

1904 22nd Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1900–1 p. xxv Growing conceptiveness and power of imagination.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	conceptive
释义	conceptiveadj. Brit. /kənˈsɛptɪv/, U.S. /kənˈsɛptɪv/ Forms: 1600s conceptiue, 1600s– conceptive. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin conceptīvus ; conception n., -ive suffix. Etymology: Partly < classical Latin conceptīvus (of holidays) proclaimed (because not held on the same day every year), movable ( < concept- , past participial stem of concipere conceive v. + -īvus -ive suffix), and partly < its elements concept- (in conception n.) + -ive suffix. Compare Middle French, French conceptif of or relating to the conception of offspring (1562 in an isolated attestation, subsequently from 1801), (of the mind) apt to conceive or form ideas (1819 in esprit conceptif), Spanish conceptivo (1589, earliest in sense ‘of or relating to the conception of offspring’; rare before the 19th cent.). †1. Chiefly Roman History. Designating a festival celebrated not on a fixed day, but on a day appointed annually by a priest or magistrate. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1609 G. Buddle Short & Plaine Disc. Euangelicall Fastes iii. 54 (side note) Conceptiue Fasts. 1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 81 Macrobius saith, there are foure kinds of publike holy-dayes..Stative, Conceptive; Imperative, and nundinative. 1819 J. C. Prichard Anal. Egyptian Mythol. 98 That the Egyptians, like the Romans, had conceptive as well as stative festivals, appears very probable. 2. Of or relating to the conception of offspring. Also: likely to conceive; favourable to conception; fertile. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] bearingOE genderinga1398 multiplyinga1400 fecundc1420 broodya1522 fruitful1526 breeding1552 procreant1588 procreative1598 increasing1600 broodious1602 prolifical1608 conceptiousa1616 plenteousa1616 conceptive1630 feracious1637 propagatory1647 prolific1650 proliferous1654 propagative1654 progenial1664 teemful1755 progenitive1769 breedy1824 proligerous1836 progenital1837 philoprogenitive1857 eugenesic1864 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 276 Those are most fruitfull and fertile in rendering fruit..which partake most of cold and moist: which position intendeth the conceptive part. 1643 R. Overton Mans Mortallitie iii. 14 By her powers Formative or conceptive. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. vii. 352 Where the uterine parts exceed in heat, by the coldnesse hereof they may bee reduced into a conceptive constitution. View more context for this quotation 1740 E. Smith Forty Two Serm. II. ix. 167 Such a Subject..is pregnant and conceptive of all the Truths and Duties of the Gospel. 1757 tr. J. F. Henckel Pyritologia iv. 44 If pyritæ have no generative, they can not be endued with a conceptive power for silver. 1864 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 7) 320 The..sun hath sown The soil conceptive with the seed of gold. 1875 H. Ellison Stones from Quarry 154 With that May-long kiss her womb doth teem Conceptive, in its many-childedness. 1926 Spectator 1 May 804/2 Conceptive control has been an almost entirely harmful or dysgenic factor. 2010 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107 2130/1 We found that the subordinate males obtained significantly more conceptive opportunities than predicted by priority of access alone. 3. Of or relating to mental conception. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [adjective] conceiving1592 conceptive1650 ideal1800 ideative1852 ideational1853 conceptualizing1878 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [adjective] ideal1611 conceptive1650 conceptional1738 conceptual1825 notional1839 idealist1856 ideate1966 1650 T. Hobbes Humane Nature i. 4 Of the powers of the Mind there be two sorts, Cognitive and Imaginative, or Conceptive and Motive. 1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 207 That celebrated distinction of the Platonic School, of the Divine Mind into..Conceptive and Exhibitive. 1703 S. Nye Inst., conc. Holy Trinity ii. 160 The difference (of the Persons) is not..Rational, that is Conceptive Notional or Verbal only. 1788 Compl. Art of Boxing 20 The mind must not be ruffled or agitated, nor no painful sensation suffered to invade the conceptive faculties. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 219 In strict and severe propriety of language I should have said..Concipiencies or Conceptive Acts rather than conceptions. 1866 J. R. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 428 With a conceptive imagination vigorous beyond any in his generation. 1926 Musical Q. 12 232 The difference between the two kinds of semi-tones is..confined to the conceptive faculty, the ideation, of the hearer. 1996 Irish Times (Nexis) 20 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 8 When a poet..attempts to transform himself from a perceptive into a conceptive being..it is not surprising to find a critic getting lost in the fog. Derivatives conˈceptiveness n. now rare the capacity to conceive; the state of being conceptive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [noun] conceptiona1387 conceitc1405 conceptiveness1819 conceptuality1836 representationa1856 1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 312/1 Wit..belongs to a different class from conceptiveness, and is an intellectual power. 1880 Musical Times 1 May 217/2 The musician must turn his eyes inwards rather than outwards; looking not to the phenomena of things, of which his art in its conceptiveness is independent, but to their essential nature. 1904 22nd Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1900–1 p. xxv Growing conceptiveness and power of imagination. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1609
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