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An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal. The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term. Sir W. Hamilton.

That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. [Obs.] Woodward.

The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness. Cudworth.

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

mb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life. I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Gen. iii. 16.

Pertaining to conception.

A conceptualist.

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

Capable of conceiving. Sir T. Browne

Pertaining to conception.

between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects. Stewart.

One who maintains the theory of conceptualism. Stewart.

Inconceivable. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. Harvey.

The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.

Superfetation. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possi…

One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute. Sir. W. Hamilton.

To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.