conceptive
- a word derived from conception.
Example Sentences
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Of the powers of the mind there be two sorts—cognitive, imaginative, or conceptive, and motive.
From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
The exercise is valuable because it is the only possible way to exercise the conceptive faculty in detail.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders
I, H, U, H designates the generative and conceptive Forces, 267-u.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
Now there is nothing in this process which necessarily eludes the conceptive or imagining power of the human mind.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
The conceptive powers want much more purification than the perceptive; and it is only as we purify the conceptive that we shall get the perceptive clear.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
