foreconceive
foreconceive verb: to conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
Verb
foreconceive (third-person singular simple present foreconceives, present participle foreconceiving, simple past and past participle foreconceived)
- To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
- I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- To imagine the new is to foreconceive, as in the Heideggerian Vorlage, which can only be expressed in language.2007, Christopher D. Morris, The Figure of the Road
Forms of foreconceive
| third-person singular present | foreconceives |
|---|---|
| present participle | foreconceiving |
| past participle | foreconceived |
| past | foreconceived |
Origin of foreconceive
From fore- + conceive.
Questions about foreconceive
- What does foreconceive mean?
- Foreconceive means to conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
- What part of speech is foreconceive?
- Foreconceive is a verb.
- What is the past tense of foreconceive?
- The past tense of foreconceive is foreconceived.
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