conceptive

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The conceptive powers want much more purification than the perceptive; and it is only as we purify the conceptive that we shall get the perceptive clear.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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

From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

By the very nature of the conceptive process the writer seizes his story ideas in terms of persons, events, or atmosphere.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

Therefore the body of conceptive technique first calls for treatment.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

Fixing my mind on a certain object, I strove to call it up in the character, not of an image of the conceptive faculty, but of a fever-vision on the retina.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)