conceptive

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If he does admit any difference in type, and allows it to influence him, his conceptive faculty will be hampered and that is artistic death.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

I remember once being amused at seeing how very short a time was necessary to bring the perceptive faculties into their due relation to the conceptive.

From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet

In the case of Ellish, it proceeded from both; her mind was apt, vigorous, and conceptive; her body active, her manners bland and insinuating, and her penetration almost intuitive.

From Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

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 Dowst, Robert Saunders

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 Tyndall, John