conceptive
Example Sentences
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Does not this cast a light upon the conceptive and receptive powers of the eye.
From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by John William Harris
We have, then, three orders of ornament, classed according to the degrees of correspondence of the executive and conceptive minds.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
Of the powers of the mind there be two sorts—cognitive, imaginative, or conceptive, and motive.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
Now there is nothing in this process which necessarily eludes the conceptive or imagining power of the human mind.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
Forces, First Born, emanated from generative and conceptive, 267-m.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
