Conceptive

[Page 250] with his designs for Boydell's Bible, the striking originality of which drew the admiration of Haydon, and of late years have been referred to by Gilchrist and Rosetti as resembling those of Blake in conceptive power. ❋ Unknown (1874)

A picture of naked eyes: eyes incepted to open that conceptive abilities for reproductive act of a higher lifeform. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What Descartes missed, according to Norris, was the distinction between God as intelligible, or exhibitive, and God as intelligent, or conceptive (Miscellanies 440, Theory I 357-358). ❋ Trace Sheridan (2009)

To understand God as conceptive is to understand God as a thinker, who reflects upon his own ideas. ❋ Trace Sheridan (2009)

As a general rule, they are sexually receptive and conceptive until they are twelve years old; although, by the way, cases have been known where dogs and bitches have been respectively procreative and conceptive to the ages of eighteen and even of twenty years. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The comprehensive and conceptive faculty of the imagination is wearied in placing before itself the springs, the action, and the boundless beneficence of this grand force, which flourishes and lives in its highest efficiency in the breast of woman. ❋ William Worthington Fowler (N/A)

William Thomson had at once accepted these views, and with the conceptive ingenuity peculiar to himself, had gone far beyond him, in showing before the Parliamentary Electric Light Committee of 1879, that through a copper wire of only ½ in. diameter, 21,000 horse power might be conveyed to a distance of 300 miles with a current of an intensity of 80,000 volts. ❋ Various (N/A)

The man of the most practised intellect is not exempt from the universal laws of our conceptive faculty. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ John William Harris (N/A)

Does not this cast a light upon the conceptive and receptive powers of the eye. ❋ John William Harris (N/A)

Any piece delighted me especially, in which I could hope to give delight; there were few which I did not peruse in this agreeable delusion; and my lively conceptive power enabling me to transfer myself into all the characters, seduced me to believe that I might likewise represent them all. ❋ Unknown (1917)

The pressing want to produce is as wholly natural, as innate, as independent of the individual's volition as the conceptive impulse itself. ❋ Victoria Cross (1910)

It was the fierce, instinctive impulse that accompanies all creative power, the tremendous impetus towards production that is an integral part of all conceptive capacity. ❋ Victoria Cross (1910)

Never again was Browning to write a poem with such conceptive crudeness, never again to tread the byways of thought so falteringly or so negligently: but never again, perhaps, was he to show so much over-rapturing joy in the world's loveliness, such Bacchic abandon to the ideal beauty which the true poet sees glowing upon the forlornest height and brooding in the shadow-haunted hollows of the hills. ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)

It is full of passages of rare technical excellence, as well as of conceptive beauty: so full, indeed, that the sympathetic reader of it as a drama will be too apt to overlook its radical shortcomings, cast as it is in the dramatic mould. ❋ Sharp, William, 1855-1905 (1897)

But we know that in general he tried to show that the formal doctrines of the state religion were merely a popular presentation of the truths of the Stoic philosophy, and that the whole system of Roman gods could be reduced in theory to the great philosophical contrast between the sky and the earth, the procreative and the conceptive elements. ❋ Jesse Benedict Carter (1894)

There can be no stronger proof of the greatness of her genius, of her possessing that conceptive faculty which belongs to the higher order of imagination, than the avidity with which 'Uncle Tom' was read at the South. ❋ Stowe, Charles Edward (1889)

He cited Hetty as proof that only a woman could have written the book, and said this character could "only be delineated as it is by an author combining the intense feelings and sympathies of a woman with the conceptive power of artistic genius." ❋ George Willis Cooke (1885)

He cited Hetty as proof that only a woman could have written the book, and said this character could “only be delineated as it is by an author combining the intense feelings and sympathies of a woman with the conceptive power of artistic genius.” ❋ Cooke, George W (1884)