ppl. a. [f. CONCEIVE + -ED1.]

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  1.  Of offspring: Brought into embryonic existence in the womb; see CONCEIVE 1.

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  † b.  Of a female: Pregnant; see CONCEIVE 3.

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  2.  Admitted into, or originated in, the mind; imagined, thought of, etc.: see the verb.

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1586.  Marlowe, 1st Pt. Tamburl., I. i. 29. The cause of my conceived grief.

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1635.  N. R., trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., I. 54. This his conceived anger he manifestly discovered.

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1643.  Milton, Divorce, viii. (1851), 44. The conceived hope of gaining a soul.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, II. 603. This [dress] fits not nicely, that is ill conceived.

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1884.  trans. Lotze’s Logic, I. iii. 127. The conceived or conceivable reason.

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  † b.  Of prayer: Spontaneous, ‘free.’ Obs.

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1614.  Bp. Hall, Recoll. Treat., 772. In a conceived prayer.

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1641.  ‘Smectymnuus,’ Answ., ii. (1653), 11. Conceived prayer was in use in the Church of God before Liturgies.

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1641.  Vind. Smectymnuus, xiii. 168. The freedom of conceived prayer.

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1733.  Neal, Hist. Purit., II. 388. Ministers had been excommunicated … for … using conceived prayers before the afternoon Sermon.

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  † 3.  actively. Cf. well-read, plain-spoken. Obs.

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1594.  R. Carew, trans. Huarte’s Exam. Men’s Wits (1616), 82. The pleasant conceiued man laugheth not at the ieastes which himselfe vttereth.

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