CONCEPTION Copy link • CONCEPTIONAct of conceiving (both of women and animals), conceptio: conceptus, -ūs. Act or power of comprehending, intelligentia (the faculty of comprehending or understanding anything, the understanding: intellectus, post-Augustan): vis percipiendi (the faculty or power of comprehending any object presented to the mind.): not to be above the conception of ordinary men, intelligentia a vulgari non remotum esse: not to be above his pupils’ powers of conception, ab intelligentia discentium non remotum esse: to be beyond our conception, fugere intelligentiae nostrae vim: to sharpen one’s powers of conception, ingenium or intelligendi prudentiam acuere: adapted to anybody’s powers of conception, ad alicujus intelligentiam accommodatus: to develope a dark or confused conception, obscuram intelligentiam enodare; animi complicatam notionem evolvere. Notion, idea, notio (the notion which one attaches to anything; hence also the signification or meaning of a word): informatio (the image of anything that one forms in one’s mind), species, idea (the mental intuition of an object, ἰδέα, mostly translated by species in Cic., e.g., Topica, 7, in: and Disputationes Tusculanae, 1, 24, 56): general conceptions, notitiae rerum: dark or obscure conceptions, intelligentiae obscurae, adumbratae, inchoatae; cognitio indagationis indigens: confused conceptions, animi complicatae notiones: to form a conception of anything, aliquid mente formare or fingere; aliquid animo effingere; alicujus rei notionem mente fingere; informare in animo alicujus rei notionem; notionem alicujus rei animo concipere: to form some obscure conceptions, adumbratas concipere intelligentias animo menteque: to have a clear and definite conception of anything, satis firme conceptual animo comprehensumque habere aliquid; probe or plane intelligere, perspectum habere aliquid: to have no conception of anything, notionem alicujus rei nullam habere; aliquid ignorare.