conceive
IPA: kʌnsˈiv
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To have a child; to become pregnant (with).
- (transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
- (transitive, intransitive with of, ditransitive) To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.
- (transitive) To understand (someone).
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Examples of "conceive" in Sentences
- And what do you conceive is the “just reward []” for giving a cop the middle finger?
- "Therefore, as a precautionary measure, our advice to pregnant women and women trying to conceive is to avoid alcohol."
- Human beings can, in short, conceive of and create change; we can use our minds to reframe, to see things in a better light.
- Stick with the current recommendations for Folic Acid intake, which in pregnancy and in women trying to conceive is 400 ug daily.
- The situation, we conceive, is one which, if for a moment good sense and good feeling could come into play between the contending parties, might be turned to advantage.
- The child she shall conceive is a holy thing, and therefore must not be conceived by ordinary generation, because he must not share in the common corruption and pollution of the human nature.
- How she contrives, with such opinions or no opinions, to keep herself so serene and cheerful, I am perplexed to conceive: is it the old story of the 'cork going safely over the falls of Niagara, where everything weightier would sink?'
- I can: the word conceive, therefore, is here used to express the recognition of a matter of fact — the perception of truth or falsehood; which I apprehend to be exactly the meaning of an act of belief, as distinguished from simple conception.
- Toronto gave me no instructions, but I went on record there, practically in line with our present Leader of the Opposition at Ottawa, that we should present immediately ships and, if necessary, men and money, so that the crisis which I conceive is very near at hand, should be met by us as Canadian citizens and as citizens of the Empire.
- If he had not the sterner nobility of purpose which made the first of his name conceive and partially carry into effect the ideal reign of justice which was the first want of his kingdom, he had yet a noble ambition for Scotland to make her honoured and feared and famous, and the success with which he seems to have carried out this object of his life for many years was great.
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