conceptive

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Forces, First Born, emanated from generative and conceptive, 267-m.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

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

Of the powers of the mind there be two sorts—cognitive, imaginative, or conceptive, and motive.

From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

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

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 Carleton, William