conceptive

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The writer of fiction should be warned that it is supremely difficult to avoid becoming artificial and mechanical, and that he will surely become so if he does his conceptive thinking in terms of analysis.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

But that size in pictures is no test of conceptive artistic genius needs no demonstration, though it may be conceded to be a gauge of executive ability.

From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene

The conceptive power is shown, as Binet and Féré remark, by the fact that our imagination has done away with the end of a nerve which should be seen at every instant of our lives.

From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by Harris, John William

Mr. Mill is right in his scorn for those who “erect the incurable limitations of the human conceptive faculty into laws of the outward universe,” if there are such limitations.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

We have, then, three orders of ornament, classed according to the degrees of correspondence of the executive and conceptive minds.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John