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Plumed with conceit he calls aloud. Cotton.

6. Design; pattern. [Obs.] Shak.

In conceit with, in accord with; agreeing or conforming. -- Out of conceit with, not having a favorable opinion of; not pleased with; as, a man is out of conceit with his dress. -- To put out of conceit with, to make one indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.

Con*ceit" (?), v. t. To conceive; to imagine. [Archaic]

The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so. South.

One of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer. Shak.

Con*ceit", v. i. To form an idea; to think. [Obs.]

Those whose . . . vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes. Milton.

Con*ceit"ed, a. 1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.]

He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. Knolles.

2. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain.

If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly heated. Swift.

Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness. Bentley.

3. Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.]

A conceited chair to sleep in. Evelyn.

Syn. -- Vain; proud; opinionated; egotistical.

Con*ceit"ed*ly, adv. 1. In an egotistical manner.

2. Fancifully; whimsically.

Con*ceit"ed*ness, n. The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.

Con*ceit"less, a. Without wit; stupid. [Obs.]

Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thy flattery? Shak.

Con*ceiv"a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. concevable.] Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood. "Any conceivable weight." Bp. Wilkins.

It is not conceivable that it should be indeed that very person whose shape and voice it assumed. Atterbury.

-- Con*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. -- Con*ceiv"a*bly, adv.

Con*ceive" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conceived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Conceiving.] [OF. conzoivre, concever, conceveir, F. concevoir, fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- + capere to seize or take. See Capable, and cf. Conception.] 1. To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.

She hath also conceived a son in her old age. Luke i. 36.

2. To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.

It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life. Gibbon.