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Capable of being conceived; conceivable. Sir M. Hale.

The state of being conceived; beginning. Joy had the like conception in our eyes. Shak.

Apt to conceive; fruitful. [Obs.] Shak.

A form of madness in which the patient conceives himself possessed of devils.

The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. But who can turn the stream of destiny Spenser. Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow. The Dest…

Anything fancifully conceived. Shak.

ich anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy. The position which they [the verb and adjective] hol…

To conceive in the womb. [Obs.] Spenser.

A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason. Shak.

opied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives. Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit. South.

rial or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift. To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity. South.

A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshiped.

Formed or conceived by the fancy; unreal; as, a fancied wrong.

Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.

cy to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. The male and female of each living thing. Drayton.

A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative. Who is the figure of Him that was to come. Rom. v. 14.

or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.

The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities.