conceptive

Example Sentences

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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

I have spoken of only the early stage of the activity of the conceptive faculties.

From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet

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

The labors of the fiction writer are of two sorts, conceptive and executive.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

Miss Elvira was also in the throes of conceptive genius.

From Blue-grass and Broadway by Daviess, Maria Thompson