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CONCEPTION, n. [L., See Conceive.]

1. The act of conceiving; the first formation of the embryo or fetus of an animal.

I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Genesis 3.

2. The state of being conceived.

Joy had the like conception in our eyes.

3. In pneumatology, apprehension of nay thing by the mind; the act of conceiving in the mind; that mental act or combination of acts by which an idea or notion is formed of an absent object of perception, or of a sensation formerly felt. When we see an object with our eyes open, we have a perception of it; when the same object is presented to the mind with the eyes shut, in idea only or in memory, we have a conception of it.

4. Conception may be sometimes used for the power of conceiving ideas, as when we say, a thing is not within our conception. Some writers have defined conception as a distinct faculty of the mind; but it is considered by others as memory, and perhaps with propriety.

5. Purpose conceived; conception with reference to the performance of an act.

6. Apprehension; knowledge.

And as if beasts conceived what reason were, and that conception should distinctly show.

7. Conceit; affected sentiment, or thought.

He is too full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms.


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CONCEPTION, n. [L., See Conceive.]

1. The act of conceiving; the first formation of the embryo or fetus of an animal.

I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Genesis 3.

2. The state of being conceived.

Joy had the like conception in our eyes.

3. In pneumatology, apprehension of nay thing by the mind; the act of conceiving in the mind; that mental act or combination of acts by which an idea or notion is formed of an absent object of perception, or of a sensation formerly felt. When we see an object with our eyes open, we have a perception of it; when the same object is presented to the mind with the eyes shut, in idea only or in memory, we have a conception of it.

4. Conception may be sometimes used for the power of conceiving ideas, as when we say, a thing is not within our conception. Some writers have defined conception as a distinct faculty of the mind; but it is considered by others as memory, and perhaps with propriety.

5. Purpose conceived; conception with reference to the performance of an act.

6. Apprehension; knowledge.

And as if beasts conceived what reason were, and that conception should distinctly show.

7. Conceit; affected sentiment, or thought.

He is too full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms.

CON-CEP'TION, n. [L. conceptio; from concipio. See Conceive. It. concezione; Sp. concepcion; Fr. conception.]

  1. The act of conceiving; the first formation of the embryo or fetus of an animal. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Gen. iii
  2. The state of being conceived. Joy had the like conception in our eyes. – Shak.
  3. In pneumatology, apprehension of any thing by the mind; the act of conceiving in the mind; that mental act or combination of acts by which an idea or notion is formed of an absent object of perception, or of a sensation formerly felt. When we see an object with our eyes open, we have a perception of it; when the same object is presented to the mind with the eyes shut, in idea only or in memory, we have a conception of it. – Kames. Stewart. Encyc.
  4. Conception may be sometimes used for the power of conceiving ideas, as when we say, a thing is not within our conception. Some writers have defined conception as a distinct faculty of the mind; but it is considered by others as memory, and perhaps with propriety.
  5. Purpose conceived; conception with reference to the performance of an act. – Shak.
  6. Apprehension; knowledge. And as if beasts conceived what reason were, / And that conception should distinctly show. – Davies.
  7. Conceit; affected sentiment, or thought. He is too full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms – Dryden.

Con*cep"tion
  1. The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

    I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.
    Gen. iii. 16.

  2. The state of being conceived; beginning.

    Joy had the like conception in our eyes.
    Shak.

  3. The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.

    Under the article of conception, I shall confine myself to that faculty whose province it is to enable us to form a notion of our past sensations, or of the objects of sense that we have formerly perceived.
    Stewart.

  4. The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension.

    Conception consists in a conscious act of the understanding, bringing any given object or impression into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all.
    Coleridge.

  5. The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept.

    He [Herodotus] says that the sun draws or attracts the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies.
    Whewell.

  6. Idea; purpose; design.

    Note this dangerous conception.
    Shak.

  7. Conceit; affected sentiment or thought.

    [Obs.]

    He . . . is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticism.
    Dryden.

    Syn. -- Idea; notion; perception; apprehemsion; comprehension.

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Conception

CONCEPTION, noun [Latin , See Conceive.]

1. The act of conceiving; the first formation of the embryo or fetus of an animal.

I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception Genesis 3:16.

2. The state of being conceived.

Joy had the like conception in our eyes.

3. In pneumatology, apprehension of nay thing by the mind; the act of conceiving in the mind; that mental act or combination of acts by which an idea or notion is formed of an absent object of perception, or of a sensation formerly felt. When we see an object with our eyes open, we have a perception of it; when the same object is presented to the mind with the eyes shut, in idea only or in memory, we have a conception of it.

4. conception may be sometimes used for the power of conceiving ideas, as when we say, a thing is not within our conception Some writers have defined conception as a distinct faculty of the mind; but it is considered by others as memory, and perhaps with propriety.

5. Purpose conceived; conception with reference to the performance of an act.

6. Apprehension; knowledge.

And as if beasts conceived what reason were, and that conception should distinctly show.

7. Conceit; affected sentiment, or thought.

He is too full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms.

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