a. [ad. med.L. conceptuāl-is (used e.g., by Walter Burley c. 1360), f. conceptu-s a conceiving + -AL: in mod. F. conceptuel.]
† 1. ? That is conceived or taken into the mind.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 280. Seeing all madnesse doth arise from a budding or flourishing, conceptual, foreign Idea implanted into anothers ground. Ibid., 341. A certain conceptual, irrational and bestial disturbance.
2. Of, pertaining to, or relating to mental conceptions or concepts.
a. 1834. Coleridge, Lit. Rem., III. 260. This pregnant idea is not within the sphere of conceptual logic, that is, of the understanding.
1880. M. Pattison, Milton, xiii. 181. The conceptual incongruities in Paradise Lost.
