Word Meanings - CONCEIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- + capere to seize or take. 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

Additional info about word: CONCEIVE

fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- + capere to seize or take. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONCEIVE)

• Apprehend
• Comprehend
• understand
• take
• expect
• seize
• conceive
• arrest
• fancy
• dread
• imagine
• presume
• anticipate
• fear
• conjecture
• Comprise
• embody
• grasp
• apprehend
• enclose
• include
• involve
• embrace
• Deem
• Judge
• estimate
• consider
• believe
• think
• suppose
• Entertain
• Harbor
• maintain
• foster
• receive
• recreate
• amuse
• Form
• Shape
• mould
• fashion
• constitute
• arrange
• frame
• construct
• contrive
• make
• produce
• create
• devise

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONCEIVE)

• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Exclude
• except
• discard
• bar
• omit
• reject
• Computation
• calculation
• inference
• reckoning
• proof
• deduction
• Eject
• expel
• discourage
• stifle
• exclude
• banish
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to CONCEIVE)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• MOLDER; MOULDER
  One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.