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Definition of Preconceives
1. preconceive [v] - See also: preconceive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preconceives
Literary usage of Preconceives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"Mr. Moore is an accomplished literary artist: that is to say, he is a master of
the means necessary to produce the effects which he preconceives. ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... he hears the debates, is let into the tempers of the assembly, pries into all
the politics, and preconceives the resolution. Where the politics are bad, ..."
3. The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (1881)
"He preconceives, nay, he feels the joys of the mineralogist, of the botanist, of
the chemist—the joys of " godless natural science. ..."
4. Music: Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music (1895)
"Is there to be the national idiomatic limitation imposed upon musical language
as the public preconceives in the literary efforts? Is there in one word, ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1810)
"... the minor critics, (and who are not minor critics compared with him I) and a
facility Of expression, which too readily preconceives every ..."
6. The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast (1886)
"An artist preconceives his statue and fashions it after the idea he has formed
in his mind. While the statue possesses a perfection which the artist gives ..."
7. Elements of Logic: Together with an Introductory View of Philosophy in by Henry Philip Tappan (1856)
"The Inventive Function, by its analysis and synthesis, presents the requisite
media of the Inductive and Deductive cognitions, and preconceives and suggests ..."
8. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"Mr. Moore is an accomplished literary artist: that is to say, he is a master of
the means necessary to produce the effects which he preconceives. ..."
9. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... he hears the debates, is let into the tempers of the assembly, pries into all
the politics, and preconceives the resolution. Where the politics are bad, ..."
10. The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (1881)
"He preconceives, nay, he feels the joys of the mineralogist, of the botanist, of
the chemist—the joys of " godless natural science. ..."
11. Music: Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music (1895)
"Is there to be the national idiomatic limitation imposed upon musical language
as the public preconceives in the literary efforts? Is there in one word, ..."
12. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1810)
"... the minor critics, (and who are not minor critics compared with him I) and a
facility Of expression, which too readily preconceives every ..."
13. The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast (1886)
"An artist preconceives his statue and fashions it after the idea he has formed
in his mind. While the statue possesses a perfection which the artist gives ..."
14. Elements of Logic: Together with an Introductory View of Philosophy in by Henry Philip Tappan (1856)
"The Inventive Function, by its analysis and synthesis, presents the requisite
media of the Inductive and Deductive cognitions, and preconceives and suggests ..."
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