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The act of conceiving.

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The state of being conceived; the beginning.

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The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.

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The start of pregnancy.

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The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.

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The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.

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An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.

Yet Carmen insisted that any artificial method of conception was sinful – playing God.

And the only such conception known to historians is that of power.

This conception makes a science of society possible.

Grand is the characteristic, in their conception, of some special animals called "heroes."

First there were the natural sciences, themselves only just emerging from a confused conception of their true method; especially those which studied the borderland of physical and mental phenomena, the medical sciences; and pre-eminently that science which has since become so popular, the science of biology.

There is no hint in Ezekiel's writings of the grandiose conception of Isa.

To this high conception of a preacher's function the prophet was faithful throughout his career.

He could not reconcile the charming impression he had of Natasha, whom he had known from a child, with this new conception of her baseness, folly, and cruelty.

Yet Leibnitz prepared the way for a new conception of organic evolution.

Yet, as Strauss and others have shown, Kant's mind betrayed a decided leaning at times to a more mechanical conception of organic forms as related by descent.

This conception of an immanent spontaneous evolution is applied alike both to nature and to mind and history.

This title introduces us to a new conception.

During the years which immediately preceded the war, as well as during the first 18 months of the conflict, he was himself a candidate for the office of Imperial Chancellor, in the sense that many of the reactionary Conservatives and of those who advocated a ruthless conception of policy in peace and war regarded him as their political hope.

What is your conception of Freemasonry?

This conception is the one handle by means of which the material of history, as at present expounded, can be dealt with, and anyone who breaks that handle off, as Buckle did, without finding some other method of treating historical material, merely deprives himself of the one possible way of dealing with it.

As to the strength of the mandist movement he had then no conception.

The other members of the group are relative and dependent, and only to be understood as in various degrees subordinate to the primitive conception.

But the ordinary idea of God can scarcely be identified with such a conception.

Modern reform in Judaism is parting to some extent from this conception, but it still holds good even among the liberals.

This conception of the Sabbath, however, necessarily underwent an important modification when the local sanctuaries were abolished under the "Deuteronomic" reform, and those sacrificial rites and feasts which in Hosea's time formed the essence of every act of religion were limited to the central altar, which most men could visit only at rare intervals.

To the placing in quarantine of the vessel which took him to Egypt is due the origin of his great conception of a canal across the isthmus of Suez.

In particular that conception which regarded "ambition" as the guiding motive in his career has been dispelled by a more intimate and accurate knowledge of his life; this shows him to have been very little the creator of his own career, which was largely the result of circumstances outside his control, the influence of past events and of the actions of others, the pressure of the national will, the natural superiority of his own genius.

From the conception of a universal order in the universe he reasons to a Supreme Being, who has created it and who has conferred upon every man in harmony with it the aim of his existence, leading to his highest good.

When reason rises to the conception of universal order, when actions are submitted, by the exercise of a sympathy working necessarily and intuitively to the idea of the universal order, the good has been reached, the true good, good in itself, absolute good.

The conception of work and of energy was originally derived from observation of purely mechanical phenomena, that is to say, phenomena in which the relative positions and motions of visible portions of matter were all that were taken into consideration.

Since our conception of velocity is essentially relative, it is plain that any property possessed by a body in virtue of its motion can be effectively possessed by it only in relation to those bodies with respect to which it is moving.

In his conception of finite personality he recurs to something like the monadism of Leibnitz.

Bach's conception of the function of an instrument is that it holds a regular part in a polyphonic scheme; and his blending of tones is like the blending of colours in a purely decorative design.

Elevated to the papacy, on the 16th of May 1605, his extreme conception of papal prerogative,.

In order to understand the future history of Italy, it is necessary to form a clear conception of the method pursued by the Lombards in their conquest.

The conception of a permanent confederation, bound together in offensive and defensive alliance for common objects, has not occurred to these hard fighters and stubborn asserters of their civic privileges.

No city calls itself either Guelpi or Ghibelline till it has expelled one-half of its inhabitants; for each party is resolved to constitute the state according to its own conception, and the affirmation of the, one programme is the negation of the other.

The conception of confederated Italy found in him a vigorous supporter.

Later criticism, orthodox and heterodox, upon the English deists inclines to charge them with the conception of a divine absentee, who wound up the machine of nature and left it to run untended.

Richard Hooker, again with traces of Aquinas, uses the conception as a weapon against Puritanism, with its aggressive positivism of scriptural precept.

Still the main weight of intuitionalist theism rests upon the conception of God as First Cause.

If there arises a system of philosophy in which all truths are grasped in unity, and it is seen that the principles of things must be what they are, such a philosophy will give us in perfection the idealistic conception of reality and the idealistic guarantees of truth which Kant gave brokenly.

There is another conception of necessity which has established itself in the history of science and philosophy.

If this conception is ".4lecha regarded as full and absolute truth, it involves materialism.

More especially the cosmology of Anaximander resembles the modern doctrine of evolution in its conception of the indeterminate (rO filr€Lpov) out of which the particular forms of the cosmos are differentiated.

Diogenes made this conception of a vital and intelligent air the ground of a teleological view of climatic and atmospheric phenomena.

Aristotle is much nearer a conception of evolution than his master Plato.

Aristotle's distinction of form and matter, and his conception of becoming as a transition from actuality to potentiality, provides a new ontological way of conceiving the process of material and organic evolution.'

Aristotle's teleological conception of organic evolution often approaches modern mechanical conceptions.

In the cosmology of the Stoics we have the germ of a monistic and pantheistic conception of evolution.

Their fundamental conception is that of Democritus; they seek to account for the formation of the cosmos, with its order and regularity, by setting out with the idea of an original (vertical) motion of the atoms, which somehow or other results in movements towards and from one another.

Thus Avicebron approaches, as Salomon Munk observes,' a pantheistic conception of the world, though he distinctly denies both matter and form to God.

In the philosophy of Descartes we meet with a dualism of mind and matter which does not easily lend itself to the conception of evolution.

Yet Descartes, in his Principia Philosophiae, laid the foundation of the modern mechanical conception of nature and of physical evolution.

So far Spinoza approaches the conception of evolution.