conceptive
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In the case of Ellish, it proceeded from both; her mind was apt, vigorous, and conceptive; her body active, her manners bland and insinuating, and her penetration almost intuitive.
From Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
In the same way the poet operates upon the material supplied him by his emotions, projecting it into an image for the conceptive faculty.
The exercise is valuable because it is the only possible way to exercise the conceptive faculty in detail.
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
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
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