conceit
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conceit
- /kənˈsiːt/
Rhymes with -iːt
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
substratebor.?
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Archaic Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
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Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq.
Latin concipiō
Old French concevoirbor.
Middle English conceyven
Middle English conceyte
English conceit
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.
noun conceits · conceipt
- Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
- The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension. a man of quick conceit
- Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
- Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
- Esteem, favourable opinion. By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte.
- A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit.
- An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. The “cyberspace” conceit allows him to dramatize computer hacking in nontechnical language, although I wonder how much his somewhat florid descriptions of the “bodiless exultation of cyberspace” will mean to readers who have not experienced the illusion of power that punching the keyboard of even a
- Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. Plum'd with conceit he calls aloud.
- Design; pattern. And yet I know not how conceit may rob the treasury of life when life itself yields to the theft;
verb conceits · conceiting · conceited · conceipt
- To form an idea; to think. Those whose […] vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
- To conceive. [T]his Medicine he conceits worse than the Disesase.
