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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. have the idea for;
- Example: "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"
- Example: "This library was well conceived"
[syn: gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise]

2. judge or regard; look upon; judge;
- Example: "I think he is very smart"
- Example: "I believe her to be very smart"
- Example: "I think that he is her boyfriend"
- Example: "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
[syn: think, believe, consider, conceive]

3. become pregnant; undergo conception;
- Example: "She cannot conceive"
- Example: "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Conceive \Con*ceive"\, v. i.
   1. To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed;
      to become pregnant.
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            A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son. --Isa. vii.
                                                  14.
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   2. To have a conception, idea, or opinion; think; -- with of.
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            Conceive of things clearly and distinctly in their
            own natures.                          --I. Watts.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Conceive \Con*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conceived; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Conceiving.] [OF. conzoivre, concever, conceveir, F.
   concevoir, fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- +
   capere to seize or take. See Capable, and cf.
   Conception.]
   1. To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the
      formation of the embryo of.
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            She hath also conceived a son in her old age. --Luke
                                                  i. 36.
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   2. To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to
      originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.
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            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.
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            Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of
            falsehood.                            --Is. lix. 13.
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   3. To apprehend by reason or imagination; to take into the
      mind; to know; to imagine; to comprehend; to understand.
      "I conceive you." --Hawthorne.
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            O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart
            Cannot conceive nor name thee!        --Shak.
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            You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in
            the same climate.                     --Swift.

   Syn: To apprehend; imagine; suppose; understand; comprehend;
        believe; think.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

conceive
    v 1: have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help
         paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"
         [syn: gestate, conceive, conceptualize,
         conceptualise]
    2: judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very
       smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is
       her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be
       inferior" [syn: think, believe, consider, conceive]
    3: become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive";
       "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"