See conceit on Wiktionary
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"text": "How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.",
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"ref": "c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:",
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"ref": "1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:",
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"expansion": "Portuguese conceito",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English conceyte, formed from conceyven by analogy with pairs such as (Modern English) deceive~deceit, receive~receipt etc. Doublet of concept and concetto. Akin to Portuguese conceito.",
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{
"form": "conceits",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "conceited",
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
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}
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{
"categories": [
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"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "1643, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:",
"text": "Those whose […] vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To form an idea; to think."
],
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"idea",
"idea"
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"think",
"think"
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"(obsolete) To form an idea; to think."
],
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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. […] , London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page 36:",
"text": "[T]his Medicine he conceits worse than the Disesase.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:",
"text": "That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:",
"text": "The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive […] as if they really were so.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To conceive."
],
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete, transitive) To conceive."
],
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"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/kənˈsiːt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːt"
},
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"tags": [
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"word": "conceipt"
}
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{
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"word": "conceyte"
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