conceptive
Example Sentences
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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 Harriet Martineau
Forces, First Born, emanated from generative and conceptive, 267-m.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
The most practiced intellect is not exempt from the universal laws of our conceptive faculty.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
Does not this cast a light upon the conceptive and receptive powers of the eye.
From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by John William Harris
They speak to the perceptive faculties only: truth to the conceptive.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
