conceive (v.) Copy link Outline I. Of offspringII. To form or harbour in the mind; as, a design; a passion, hope, fear, etc.1. concĭpio, 32. căpio, 33. fingo, finxi, fictum, 3 (to frame or design in the mind)III. To understand, comprehend1. comprĕhendo, 32. excōgĭto, 1 (to find out by thinking; to devise)3. intellĭgo, lexi, ctum, 3 • conceive (v.): I. Of offspring: concĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3: Perseus, whom Danae had c.d in a shower of gold, Perseus quem Danaë pluvio conceperat auro, Ov.: also without object expr.: when a mule has c.d, quum concepit mula, Cic.: Varr.: to c. by any one, c. ex aliquo, Cic.; de aliquo, Ov.: v. pregnant (to become). Fig.: they not only c. vices themselves, but diffuse them over the community, non solum vitia c. ipsi, sed ea infundunt in civitatem, Cic. II. To form or harbour in the mind; as, a design; a passion, hope, fear, etc.: 1. concĭpio, 3: to c. a hope or fear, spem, metum c., Ov. (also, spe aliquid c., Liv.): to c. a crime, scelus, flagitium c., Cic.: to c. the passion of love, amorem c., Ov. 2. căpio, 3: to c. a design, consilium c., Caes.: Cic. (foll. by gen. of gerund or gerundive; by inf.; or by ut and subj.): to c. animosity, inimicitias c., Ter.: Cic.: but the converse constr. is very common: as, odium me capit alicujus, Cic. 3. fingo, finxi, fictum, 3 (to frame or design in the mind): c. to yourselves the picture of my condition, fingite cogitatione imaginem hujus conditionis meae, Cic.: also f. animo, Cic.: what crime can be c.d or thought of, which he, etc., quid mali fingi aut excogitari potest, quod ille, etc., Cic.: to c. an evil deed, maleficium c., Cic.: v. to devise. Phr.: to c. a hope that something will happen, in spem venire, fore ut, etc., Caes.: to c. a guilty design upon a person's life, consilium facinoris contra vitam alicujus inire, Cic.: Caes.: v. design: there is no pleasure of which we do not c. a disgust from constant repetition, nulla voluptas est quae non assiduitate fastidium pariat, Plin. III. To understand, comprehend: 1. comprĕhendo, 3: v. to comprehend. 2. excōgĭto, 1 (to find out by thinking; to devise): life, than which nothing more blessed can be c.d, vita, qua nihil beatius excogitari potest, Cic. 3. intellĭgo, lexi, ctum, 3: often joined with a similar verb: as to c. what soul is, apart from body, qualis animus sit vacans corpore int. et cogitatione comprehendere. Cic. v. to understand, imagine, suppose.
CONCEIVE Copy link • CONCEIVEComprehend: comprehendere, complecti with or without animo or mente. cogitatione comprehendere: capere (mente): mente concipere, percipere: cognoscere et percipere: assequi: intelligere. To have conceived, comprehensum, perceptum, cognitum comprehensumque habere; animo comprehensum tenere; ratione et intelligentia tenere [SYN. in COMPREHEND]: what can not be conceived, quod nullius mens aut cogitatio capere potest. To form an idea, or to represent to one’s mind: aliquid cogitare; aliquid cogitatione fingere or depingere (to form an image of anything in one’s mind): fingere: effingere (to form): pingere: depingere: cogitare: animo cogitare: cogitatione sibi fingere: animo sibi effingere: animo concipere (to represent to one’s mind): animo praecipere (to conceive before or previously; to anticipate): opinione praecipere (to presume anything): To become pregnant, concipere. gravidam or praegnantem fieri. To form in the mind, concipere: to conceive hopes, spem concipere: to conceive suspicion from anything, suspicionem ex re ducere, trahere; incidit mihi suspicio ex re: to conceive a suspicion that etc., venit alicui in suspicionem, with accusative and infinitive: to conceive hatred against anybody, odium in aliquem habere or gerere: odio in aliquem ferri: odium in aliquem concepisse or erga aliquem suscepisse: tenet aliquem odium alicujus rei. qs alicujus rei odium habet: I have conceived a disgust against anything, fastidire aliquid; satietas alicujus rei me cepit. To plot: machinari (to design): excogitate (to contrive): comminisci (to invent): coquere: concoquere (to brood, or to hatch).