CONCEIVE


Meaning of CONCEIVE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kən-ˈsēv ]

verb

( con·ceived ; con·ceiv·ing )

Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French conceivre, from Latin concipere to take in, conceive, from com- + capere to take — more at heave

Date: 14th century

transitive verb

1.

a. : to become pregnant with (young)

conceive a child

b. : to cause to begin : originate

a project conceived by the company's founder

2.

a. : to take into one's mind

conceive a prejudice

b. : to form a conception of : imagine

a badly conceived design

3. : to apprehend by reason or imagination : understand

unable to conceive his reasons

4. : to have as an opinion

I cannot conceive that he acted alone

intransitive verb

1. : to become pregnant

2. : to have a conception — usually used with of

conceive s of death as emptiness

Synonyms: see think

• con·ceiv·er noun

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.