“The issue was how to conceive what the show was going to look and feel like,” says McKenzie.
These military men find it hard to conceive that there might be no real policy at all.
Last year, as I began to conceive a novel, set in shadowy Istanbul, about the sale of a gray market antiquity worth millions.
Did you conceive of that look yourself, and how did you arrive at that look?
She also suggested that the government should help Japanese women who have fertility issues to conceive children.
One could conceive of it as possible to turn toward Him—and reach, the objective.
You cannot conceive in your mind how stubborn and brainless they are.
To the artist, expression is the only mode under which he can conceive life at all.
What induced him to attempt this style it is difficult to conceive.
All loveliness, all grace, all majesty are there; but we cannot see, cannot conceive—come away!
late 13c., conceiven, "take (seed) into the womb, become pregnant," from stem of Old French conceveir (Modern French concevoir), from Latin concipere (past participle conceptus) "to take in and hold; become pregnant," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + comb. form of capere "to take," from PIE *kap- "to grasp" (see capable). Meaning "take into the mind" is from mid-14c., a figurative sense also found in the Old French and Latin words. Related: Conceived; conceiving.
conceive con·ceive (kən-sēv')
v. con·ceived, con·ceiv·ing, con·ceives
To become pregnant.
To apprehend mentally; to understand.
