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Show CO ¢. Proud; fond of himfell' ; opinionative is anothe extrem in obfcur which fome empty conccited head To have conceiv'd of God! or that falute Hail, highly favour'd, among women bleft writers ienfe Felton on the Glafficks If you-think me too cenceited Or to paflion quickly heated Swifr you write of me, would make m mor conceited than what 1 feribble myfelf Pope 2. To become pregnant The flocks fhould conceive when they came t 5. With of before the objeét of conceit Genefis drink The beayteous maid, whom he beheld, poflefs'd Conceiwing as fhe {lept, her fruitful wom Swell'd with the founder of immortal Rome Every man is building a feveral way, impotentl conceiteaof his own model and his own materials Dryden if ‘we confide ho vitiou an corrup Athenians were, how conceited of thei fcience, and pelitenefs LoncetTEDLY adv the own wit Bentley [from conceited. Addifon Conce'1VER. 7. /. [from conceiwe. that underftands or apprehends gorie Conceitedly drefs her, and be affign' By you fit place for every flower and jewel Donne himfelf as claim under their own pretences, partiality an conceitednefs make them give the pre-eminence Collicr on Pride Conce'rTLESs. adj. [from conceit.] Stupid ; without thought ; dull of apprehenfion Think'ft thou I am fo fhallow, fo conceitlefs To be feduced by thy flattery Shakefp. Two Gent. of Verona CoNcE 1VABLE. adj. [from conceive. 1. That may be imagined or thought t confriv a whereby any conceivable weight may b any conceivable power, with the fam without other inftrument, the work would be too much fubjeét to art It is to be confidered, that whatfoever virtue i in numbers, for conducing to comcent of notes, i rather to be afcribed to the ante-number than t the entire number Bacon Reafons borrowed from nature an >Tis in concent to his ow Fr moved b quicknefs of natur i Wilkins Atterbury's Sermons CoNcE 1VABLENESS. #. /. [from conceivable.] The quality of being conceivable concipere, Liat. 3. To admit into the womb ; to form i the womb I was fhapen in iniquity, and in fin did m . Plalmli. 5 mother conceive me 2. To form in the mind 5 to imagine Nebuchadnezzar hath conceived a purpofe againf Feremiab you " This man conccived the duke's death5 but wha was the motive of that felonious conception, is i Wotton the clouds 3. "To comprehend ; to underftand : as, 4 conceives be awhole [)fiens This kifs, if it durft fpeak Would ftretch thy fpirits up into the air Shakefp. King Lear Conceive, and fare thee well 4. To think ; to be of opinion If you compare my gentlemen with Sir John you will hardly conceive him to have been bred i Saift the fame climate 9o CoNCEIVE. @. 7 to have an idea of The griev'd common Hardly conceiwe of me : let it be nois'd ‘That, through our interceffion, this revokemen Shakefpeare's Henry VIII. whic tha another fro co an Atterbury . a. [concentrer centram Lat. T drive into a narrow compafs; to driv towards the centre: contrary to expan or dilate Spirit of vinegar, concentrated and reduced to it greateft ftrength, will coagulate the ferum Arbuthrot on Aliments ConceEnTrRA'TION. 7. /. [from concentrate.] Colle@tion into a narrow fpac round the centre; compreflion into narrow compafs Al circular bodies that receive a concentratio of the light, muft be fhadowed in a circular man Di& CoNCcE 1VABLY. adv. [from conceivable. In a conceivable or intelligible manner 95 CONCE'IVE. «. a. {concevoir, Fr principles allow no merit, no intrinfick worth, to accompan invention It is mot concéivable, that it fhould be indee #hat very perfon, whofe fhape and woice it affumed the fchool men, as {ubfervient mediums, carry a mufick an concent to that which God hath faid in his word Dr. Maire 7o CONCE'NTRATE Glanwille's Scepfis And pardon comes Conlfiftency 2 one ftate mor Thesfreezing of the words in the air, in th Worthern climes, is as conceiwable as this firang 3. To think yet commo ConcEe'NT. n. [ [concentus, Latin. 1. Concert of voices ; harmony ; concor of found 2. That may be underflood or believed. -union by wifer conceivers ner 7 Peacha on Drazwing CONCE''NTRE. @. n. [concentrer; Fr from coz and centrum, Latin.] To ten to one common centre; to have th fame centre with fomething elfe Th bricks having firft been formed in a cir cular mould and the cut, before their burning inte four quarters ormore, the fides afterward join fo clofely, and the points concentre fo exaétly Wotton that the pillars appear one intire piece All thefe are like fo many lines drawn from feveral objects, that fome way relate to him, an Hale eoncentre in him 7o CoNCE'NTRE. @. a. To diret or contra¢t towards one centre The having a part lefs to animate, will ferve t concentre the fpirits, and make them more a&tive i Decay of Piety the reft In thee concentring all their precious beam Milton Of facred influence CoNCE'NTRICAL. ] adj. [ concentricus Lat.] Having on ConcE'NTRICK commo centre If, as in water ftirr'd, more circles b Produc'd by one, love fuch additions take Thofe, like fo many fpheres, but one heav'n make Donne For they are all concentrick unto thee Any fubftance, pitched fteddy upon two points as on an axis, and moving about on that axis, alf defcribes a circle comcentrick to the axis DMoxon's Blechanical Exercifes aymean to the fclerodes, the eye would pot hav?;d%fgx a whole hemifphere at one view. Ray on the Creat th wate fragnatin int throw b If a fton waves excite thereby continue fome time to 'afi in the place where the ftone fell inty the wate and are propagated from thence into toncentri.k circles upon the furface of the water to great di;‘ Newtor's Opticks :it Th manner o concretion is by concentrica rings, like thofe of an onion abeut the firftkernel Arbuthnot on Digy, Circular revolutions in concentrick orbs about th fun or other central body coul in no wife h attained without the power of the Divine arm Bentley's Sermons Concr'PrACLE.m. £ [conceptaculum, Lat That in which any thing is contained a veflel There is at this day refident, in that huge concep tacle, water enough to effeét fuch a deluge Woodward's Natural Hiffory, Prefae Brown's Vulgar Errours When men think none worthy efteerfi; but fuc pofiibl be mad heads will fly unto fuperftitious applications CoNcETITEDNESS. 7 fo [from conceired. Pride ; opinionativenefs ; fondnefs o If it wer On Though hereof prudent {fymbols and pious alle Fancifully ; whimfically Make her for love fit fuel Milt Conceiwe of things clearly and diftinétly in thei own naturesj conceive of things completely in al their parts; conceiwe of things comprehenfively i all their properties and relations ; conceive of thing extenfively in all their, kinds; conceive of thing orderly, or in a proper method Fatts's Logick are apt to ru into; out of a prodigality of words, and a want o Wha Xf the cryftalline humour had bea O what avsils me now that honour high affeCted ; fantafhical Ther CO CO Conce'PTIBLE. adj. [from concipio, copceptum, Lat.] That may be conceived intelligible ; capable to be underftood Some of his attributes, an the manifeftation thereof, are not only highly delectable to the intel letive faculty, but are moft fuitable and eafil conceprible by us, becaufe apparent in his works Hale's Origin of Mankind Conce'pT10N. #. [ [conceptio, Latin, 1. The a¢t of conceiving, or growing quic with pregnancy T will greatly multiply thy forrow by thy concef tion 3 in forrow thou fhalt bring forth children Genefisy iile 16 Thy forrow I will greatly multipl By thy conception 5 children thou fhalt brin In forrow forth Miltow's Paradife Loft 2. The ftate of being conceived Joy had the like conception in our eyes And, at that inftant, like a bale fprung up. Shak Our own productions flatter us : it is impofiibl not to be fond of them at the moment of thei Dryden's ].?ufrg[nq coiiceptiont 3. Notion; idea; image in the mind As conceptions are the images or refemblances o things to the mind within itfelf, in the like manne are words or names the marks, tokens, or refem blances of thofe conceptions to the minds of the South's Sermons whom we converfe with. Confult the acuteft poets and fpeakers, and the will confefs that their quicke®; moft adx:rsued cet ceptions, were fuch as darted into their minds, lik fudden flafhes of lightning, they knew not ho nor whence; and not by any certain confequen or dependence of one thought upon another; asi South's Sertons is in matters of ratiocination To have right conceftions about them, we muf bring our underftindings to the inflexible nature and unalterable relations of things, and not ended vour to bring things to any preconceived notion Lacke of our own 4. Sentiments ; purpofe Thou but remember'ft me of my own coreepHon 1 have perceived a moft faint neglect of late; whi I have rather blamed as my own jealous C\_mofit than as a very pretence and purpofe of unl::md" Shakefpeare's Kirg Lear Pleafe your highneg, not His dangerous conception in this point Not friended by his with to your high perfon His will is moft malignant, and it ftretche Beyond you to your friends. Shakefp. Henry vilL. $ 5. Apprehenfion ; knowledge And as if beafts conceiv'd what reafon WerC And that coneeption fhould diftinétly fho They fhould the name of veafonable bear For, without reafon, none could reafon km;;q}i 6. Conceit; fentiment; pointed thougt}: He is too flatulent fometimes, and fomefi too dry 3 man forced5 and times uncqual, and almoft a'oi:yt befides, is full of sanccpticny Yo o |