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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conceive \Con*ceive"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Conceived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Conceiving}.] [OF. conzoivre, concever, conceveir, F. concevoir, fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- + capere to seize or take. See {Capable}, and cf. {Conception}.]
1. To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
She hath also conceived a son in her old age. --Luke i. 36.
2. To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life. --Gibbon.
Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. --Is. lix. 13.
3. To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand. ''I conceive you.'' --Hawthorne.
O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! --Shak.
You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate. --Swift.
Syn: To apprehend; imagine; suppose; understand; comprehend; believe; think.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
conceived
adjective: formed in the mind [syn: {formed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "conceived": appreciated, apprehended, ascertained, coined, comprehended, discerned, discovered, down pat, fabricated, grasped, invented, known, made-up, minted, new-minted, originated, pat, perceived, prehended, realized, recognized, seized, understood
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