Part 2216

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To admit to be true; to acknowledge.</def>

<blockquote>We <b>concede</b> that their citizens were those who lived under different forms. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To grant; allow; admit; yield; surrender.</syn>

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<hw>Con*cede"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To yield or make concession.</def>

<blockquote>I wished you to <b>concede</b> to America, at a time when she prayed concession at our feet. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Con*ceit"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Through French, fr. L. <ets>conceptus</ets> a conceiving, conception, fr. <ets>concipere</ets> to conceive: cf. OF. p. p. nom. <ets>conciez</ets> conceived. See <er>Conceive</er>, and cf. <er>Concept</er>, <er>Deceit</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.</def>

<blockquote>In laughing, there ever procedeth a <b>conceit</b> of somewhat ridiculous. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A man wise in his own <b>conceit</b>. <i>Prov. xxvi. 12.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; <as>as, a man of quick <ex>conceit</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my <b>conceit</b> open to understand them. <i>Sir P. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.</def>

<blockquote>His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more <b>conceit</b> in him than is in a mallet. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.</def>

<blockquote>On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a <b>conceit</b>. <i>L'Estrange.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Some to <b>conceit</b> alone their works confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Tasso is full of <b>conceits</b> . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.</def>

<blockquote>Plumed with <b>conceit</b> he calls aloud. <i>Cotton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Design; pattern.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

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

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<hw>Con*ceit"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To conceive; to imagine.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>The strong, by <b>conceiting</b> themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>One of two bad ways you must <b>conceit</b> me, Either a coward or a flatterer. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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