conceptive
Example Sentences
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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
When the writer has his hands on a plot, of whatever type and however found, his conceptive labors are by no means over.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
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 Octavius Brooks Frothingham
In the same way the poet operates upon the material supplied him by his emotions, projecting it into an image for the conceptive faculty.
Fixing my mind on a certain object, I strove to call it up in the character, not of an image of the conceptive faculty, but of a fever-vision on the retina.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
