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conception action of conceiving in the womb XIII; apprehension, imagination XIV; notion XVII. — (O)F. — L. conceptiō, -ōn-, f. concipere, concept- CONCEIVE.
So concept †thought, opinion, etc. XVI; (philos.) XVII. — late L. conceptus, f. pp. stem of concipere. conceptual XVII. — medL. conceptuālis, f. conceptus; hence conceptualist (scholastic philos.) XVIII, -ism XIX.

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