conceptive
Example Sentences
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They were not, therefore, deterred by the vacuity and poor conceptive faculty of the artists from employing them.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
The sole limitation upon his work is his own conceptive and executive power, unless he foolishly subjects himself to the bondage of some special school.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
A more mechanical exercise of the conceptive faculty, but a very valuable one, is to shape and re-shape what I will term abstract stories.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
Strict executive technique and also the technique of construction—which is both conceptive and executive—will be taken up after dealing with the matter of story types and the matter of plot.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
Of the powers of the mind there be two sorts—cognitive, imaginative, or conceptive, and motive.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
