conceptive

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Of the powers of the mind there be two sorts—cognitive, imaginative, or conceptive, and motive.

From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

Mr. Mill is right in his scorn for those who “erect the incurable limitations of the human conceptive faculty into laws of the outward universe,” if there are such limitations.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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

The conceptive power is shown, as Binet and Féré remark, by the fact that our imagination has done away with the end of a nerve which should be seen at every instant of our lives.

From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by Harris, John William

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 Symonds, John Addington