Word Finder - conceive

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To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.

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To understand (someone).

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To become pregnant (with).

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Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive.

It is certainly possible to conceive of a single day without war.

We may conceive of the Third Crusade under the figure of a number of converging lines, all seeking to reach a common centre.

When a people migrate they may take with them their god, and if they conceive him to be a spiritual being who cannot be represented by an image, they may desire a symbolical expression of or, rather, a substitute for his presence.

To us God's sovereignty over nature often seems the hardest thing to conceive; but to primitive peoples who know nothing of laws of nature, His moral sovereignty is a much more difficult conception.

It seemed as if no one saw that coming because, frankly, no one could conceive of it happening.

Conceive these gases passing at this great velocity through the narrow openings between the adjoining lumps of coke and ore.

But still, to conceive a future life...

To conceive of a man being free we must imagine him outside space, which is evidently impossible.

To form a conception of this problem it is to be noted that since the position of the body in space can be computed from the six elements of the orbit at any time we may ideally conceive the coordinates of the body to be algebraically expressed as functions of the six elements and of the time.

But no power of imagination can conceive an acknowledged right of private war in Rome, Venice or Bern.

C. Baur and his school - important as the first scientific attempt to conceive New Testament conditions and literature as a whole - has been abandoned.

It is said that he contemplated the conquest of India and that he was the first to conceive the idea of the Suez Canal.

That is because they seem so far out of the daily experience of most people that they cannot conceive of how or why they would use them.

Thus it is that Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, Share in the tree-top's joyance, and conceive Of sunshine and wide air and winged things, By sympathy of nature, so do I gave evidence of things unseen.

Create a calm atmosphere and make trying to conceive an enjoyable experience.

Very few women actually deliver on their exact due date, so the difference of a few days between when a woman may have actually conceived and when she is estimated to conceive don't make much of a difference.

If you've been struggling to conceive, you may be interested in the research that indicates acupressure treatments can help to increase fertility.

The key to determining when to try to conceive is ovulation.

Some of these approaches may help you conceive a baby in relatively little time.

For women hoping to conceive a child, this can be a big boost.

The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.

The benefits of maternity acupressure are numerous, ranging from helping a woman to conceive to providing pain relief during labor and delivery.

The idea of scheduling sex isn't very romantic but it may be one of the best ways to conceive.

If you were trying to conceive and terminated your pregnancy due a fetal genetic defect, you should wait six to eight weeks before actively trying to conceive again.

But it was not till the third journey that the new interest became an overpowering passion, and the " philosopher " was on his way home before he had advanced so far as to conceive the scheme of a system of thought to the elaboration of which his life should henceforth be devoted.

He would conceive an unintelligible aversion to a particular alley, and perform a great circuit rather than see the hateful place.

He cherished the idea of German unity, but could conceive of it only in the form of the restored Holy Empire under the house of Habsburg; and so little did he understand the growing nationalist temper of his people that he seriously negotiated for a union of the Lutheran and Anglican, churches, of which the sole premature offspring was the Protestant bishopric of Jerusalem.

For example, from the evidence of molar changes due to the obvious parts of bodies, science first comes to believe in molecular changes due to imperceptible particles, and then tries to conceive the ideas of particles, molecules, atoms, electrons.

They are often symbolical; that is, we conceive one thing only by another like it, e.g.

What believer in God pretends to conceive Him as He really is ?

We believe many things that we cannot conceive; as Mill said, the inconceivable is not the incredible; and the point of science is not what we can conceive but what we should believe on evidence.

The planets are near, and we know it by their not twinkling, 2 but science must conceive their nearness as the cause of their not twinkling and make the Arius in the real order the middle term of its syllogism.

But how does he conceive of its operation?

Nature, e.g., is not deduced as real because rational, but being real its rationality is presumed and, very imperfectly, exhibited in a way to make it possible to conceive it as in its essence the reflex of Reason.

But his result had to be submitted to another test, the Law of the Norms. As soon as he found, by trial, that this law was satisfied, he took the final step. " This led me," he says, " to conceive that perhaps, instead of seeking to confine ourselves to triplets,..

Thus the Church ever receives God and has a twofold nature; its sacraments through material and earthly elements impart a divine power; its teachings agree with the highest truths of philosophy and science, yet add to these the knowledge of mysteries which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive; it sanctifies human relationships, but the happiness of earth at purest and best is only a shadow of the divine bliss which belongs to the redeemed soul.

Yet even he did not conceive this Reason as incorporeal; it was in reality only the most highly rarefied form of matter in existence.

Order and regularity being indispensable conditions of beauty, it was easy to conceive of the Horae as the goddesses of youthful bloom and grace, inseparably associated with the idea of springtime.

This Apology gives a most fair and temperate history of the relations between Bacon and Essex, shows how the prudent counsel of the one had been rejected by the other, and brings out very clearly what we conceive to be the true explanation of the matter.

This bracing of the vital feeling takes place by means of imaginative appeal to the great forces man perceives stirring within him and about him, such appeal proving effective doubtless by reason of the psychological law that to conceive strongly is XXIII.

We may conceive this pressure to arise from the tendency which the bubble has to contract, or in other words from the surface-tension of the bubble.

Let us conceive an infinitely long circular cylinder of liquid, at rest (a motion common to every part of the fluid is necessarily without influence upon the stability, and may therefore be left out of account for convenience of conception and expression), and inquire under what circumstances it is stable or unstable, for small displacements, symmetrical about the axis of figure.

The intrigues, quarrels, murders and grossnesses that grew out of this social condition it is difficult to conceive, and would be impossible to detail.

Unless, indeed, we conceive our faculties to be constructed on some arbitrary plan which puts them out of relation to the facts with which they have to deal, we have a prima facie right to treat beauty as an objective determination of things.

Heraclitus holds that nothing material can be thought of without this Logos, but he does not conceive the Logos itself to be immaterial.

I want the people I represent to look as if they really belonged to their station, so that imagination cannot conceive of their ever being anything else.

As reason has apprehended these two simultaneous phenomena, attention and sensation, and led us The immediately to conceive the two sorts of distinct they are related, so, from the notion of this limitation, we find it impossible under the same guide not to conceive a supreme cause, absolute and infinite, itself the first and last cause of all.

But hitherto Roman Catholic theology has refused to conceive of any development except by enlargement of the Church's creed.

But the attempt to conceive what it is leads me into mere verbal subtleties.

There are other remarkable and distinctive features of structure which hold the Arthropoda together, and render it impossible to conceive of them as having a polyphyletic origin, that is to say, as having originated separately by two or three distinct lines of descent from lower animals; and, on the contrary, establish the view that they have been developed from a single line of primitive Gnathopods which arose by modification of parapodiate annulate worms not very unlike some of the existing Chaetopods.