different between conceiver vs conceive
conceiver
English
Etymology
conceive +? -er
Noun
conceiver (plural conceivers)
- One who, or that which, conceives.
Old French
Verb
conceiver
- Alternative form of concevoir
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conceive
English
Alternative forms
- conceave (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English conceyven, from Old French concevoir, conceveir, from Latin concipi?, concipere (“to take”), from con- (“together”) + capi? (“to take”). Compare deceive, perceive, receive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?si?v/
- Rhymes: -i?v
Verb
conceive (third-person singular simple present conceives, present participle conceiving, simple past and past participle conceived)
- (transitive) To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
- 1606, Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare, II-4
- We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
- 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.
- 1606, Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare, II-4
- (transitive) To understand (someone).
- I conceive you.
- You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
- (intransitive or transitive) To become pregnant (with).
- She hath also conceived a son in her old age.
- To generate or engender; to bring into being.
Related terms
- conceivable
- conceiver
- concept
- conception
Translations
Further reading
- conceive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- conceive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Middle English
Verb
conceive
- Alternative form of conceyven
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