conceptive
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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 John William Harris
Of the powers of the mind there be two sorts—cognitive, imaginative, or conceptive, and motive.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
I have spoken of only the early stage of the activity of the conceptive faculties.
From Household Education by Harriet Martineau
Such contrivances as we have mentioned only weary instead of aiding the conceptive faculty.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
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 William Carleton
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