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Grammar : Adj
Spell : kuh n-sep-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈsɛp ʃən



Definition of conceptive

Origin :
  • 1630s, from Latin conceptivus, from conceptus, past participle of concipere (see conceive).
  • As in speculative : adj theoretical
  • As in reproductive : adj generative
  • As in procreative : adj reproductive
Example sentences :
  • They speak to the perceptive faculties only: truth to the conceptive.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • Intermediary sensation, demanded by conceptive thoughts, iv.
  • Extract from : « Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 » by Plotinos (Plotinus)
  • It is perceptive because sentient, it is conceptive because perceptive.
  • Extract from : « Thoughts on Life and Religion » by Friedrich Max Mller
  • The idea is everything to them, by virtue of their conceptive faculty.
  • Extract from : « Household Education » by Harriet Martineau
  • I have spoken of only the early stage of the activity of the conceptive faculties.
  • Extract from : « Household Education » by Harriet Martineau
  • The man of the most practised intellect is not exempt from the universal laws of our conceptive faculty.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. » by Various
  • It translates the thought from the abstract to the concrete, from the intuitional to the conceptive.
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.--April, 1852.--Vol. IV. » by Various
  • We have, then, three orders of ornament, classed according to the degrees of correspondence of the executive and conceptive minds.
  • Extract from : « The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) » by John Ruskin
  • The labors of the fiction writer are of two sorts, conceptive and executive.
  • Extract from : « The Technique of Fiction Writing » by Robert Saunders Dowst
  • When the writer has his hands on a plot, of whatever type and however found, his conceptive labors are by no means over.
  • Extract from : « The Technique of Fiction Writing » by Robert Saunders Dowst

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