conceive

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In 2006, Conceive, a magazine based in Orlando, Florida, whose slogan is “We’re the experts at getting pregnant”, found that 46% of its readers were younger than 30.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2016

Conceive of nature as basically the charismatic mammals and plants, plus a few pretty fluttering insects, and perhaps it's hard to see our place in it.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2013

He shortly parodied his drawing-room-pink period: Conceive me if you can A cr�me-de-la-cr�me young man; A fervid Etonian Anti-Gladstonian Down-with-the-rich young man .

From Time Magazine Archive

Conceive, kon-sēv′, v.t. to receive into and form in the womb: to form in the mind: to imagine or think: to understand: to express.—v.i. to become pregnant: to think.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Not in a day, but in a day and night: Conceive the night, my Danaë, the night— It is the natural state of being and space, Briefly interrupted by casual suns.

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon