conception Copy link Outline I. The act of conceiving (offspring)II. The act of devising or forming in the mindIII. A mental conception, as something existing in the mind1. ĭmāgo, ĭnis, f.2. informātio (the idea of a thing as formed in the mind)3. conformātio (= informatio)4. antĭcĭpātio (a c. formed beforehand)5. spĕcies (= ἰδέα), nōtio • conception: I. The act of conceiving (offspring): conceptio: Cic.; conceptus, ūs, Cic.: Plin. II. The act of devising or forming in the mind: expr. by verb: a mind equal to the c. of great designs, *animus ad alta consilia animo concipienda idoneus: the c. of this scheme originated with him, *hoc consilium ab illo excogitatum est, ortum est. III. A mental conception, as something existing in the mind: 1. ĭmāgo, ĭnis, f.: to form a c. of anything, alicujus rei im. cogitatione fingere, Cic.: Quint. 2. informātio (the idea of a thing as formed in the mind): a c. of Jove as bearded, and of Minerva as helmed, inf. barbati Jovis et galeatae Minervae, Cic. N. D. 1, 36, 100. 3. conformātio (= informatio): Cic. 4. antĭcĭpātio (a c. formed beforehand): ant. quaedam deorum, quam appellat προληφιν Epicurus, id est, antecepta animo rei quaedam informatio: Cic. N. D. 1, 16, 43. 5. spĕcies (= ἰδέα), nōtio: v. idea, notion. Phr.: there can be no c. of body without space, corpus sine loco intelligi nun potest, Cic.: to have a c. present to the mind, aliquid in animo conceptum tenere: v. to conceive (III.).
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.