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conceivest

conceivest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of conceive.

Meaning of conceive

Verb

conceive (third-person singular simple present conceives, present participle conceiving, simple past and past participle conceived)

  1. (ambitransitive) To have a child; to become pregnant (with).
    • Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive.
  2. (transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
    • It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC
  3. (ambitransitive, ditransitive, with-of) To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.
    • Can you conceive of him as a leader?
  4. (transitive) To understand (someone).
    • I conceive you.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 3, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC

Origin of conceivest

conceive + -est

Questions about conceivest

What is conceivest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Conceivest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of conceive.

Words near conceivest in the dictionary

  1. conceive
  2. conceived
  3. conceiver
  4. conceivers
  5. conceives
  6. conceivest
  7. conceiveth
  8. conceiving
  9. conceivings
  10. concelebrant
  11. concelebrants

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