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Definition of Conceived
1. conceive [v] - See also: conceive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conceived
Literary usage of Conceived
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"But he had not conceived the grossly magic practices of the later ... The Platonists
had conceived God as something in every way unapproachable, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"example, the sun is regarded as an animal; but perhaps it was conceived that ...
Among Indians animals play an important part and are conceived as human in ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... Visionary Demons—Demons of darkness repelled by fire—Demons otherwise manifest:
seen by animals ; detected by footprints—Spirit* conceived and treated ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The subjective experience of faith is conceived to be the ultimate fact; and the
only legitimate apologetic, just the self-justification of this faith ..."
5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"I hence conceived the idea of the book which is now before tbe reader; It is
evident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on amongst us; ..."
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