conceptivelyadv.
/kənˈsɛptᵻvli/, U.S. /kənˈsɛptᵻvli/ In conception; conceptually.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [adverb]
in idea1622
conceptively1659
conceptually1842
conceptualistically1872
1659 S. Petto Vindic. Preacher Sent v. 74 A multitude of Churches, and in each the common nature, really particular, conceptively Universal, according to the rule, Universale est unum in multis.
1703 S. Nye Inst. Holy Trinity ii. 78 The Properties of the Divine Nature are inseparable; they are really one, and more but only conceptively, for they are the same with the Essence.
1750 Speech intended Gen. Court Proprietors East-India Stock 6 Five Years past, without me tasting any of these bitter Effects, till..I conceptively experienced them.
1854 Harper's New Monthly Mag. July 256 That true moral suasion which henceforth makes crime and retribution one thought, one feeling—conceptively as well as logically indivisible.
1865 J. H. Stirling Sir W. Hamilton 73 Conceptively he accepts them: perceptively, he..knows them not.
1907 W. A. Worsley Concepts Monism xvi. 305 Science..does not maintain that such thesis can be made good by objective demonstration, but rather that it is conceptively true.
1998 Ethics & Environment 3 159 A hunting code is in general morally significant if it can be conceptively connected to a moral tradition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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