conceptive
Example Sentences
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Now there is nothing in this process which necessarily eludes the conceptive or imagining power of the purely human mind.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
Strict executive technique and also the technique of construction—which is both conceptive and executive—will be taken up after dealing with the matter of story types and the matter of plot.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders
The sole limitation upon his work is his own conceptive and executive power, unless he foolishly subjects himself to the bondage of some special school.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders
There can scarcely be a stronger instance of the power of such a child's conceptive faculty than in his own attempts to draw.
From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet
Of the powers of the mind there be two sorts—cognitive, imaginative, or conceptive, and motive.
From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
