conceitedadj.n.

?1536 W. Marshall Luther's Images Verye Chrysten Bysshop sig. c.iiii Certayne mery conceyted felowes.

1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iii. sig. C4 O dull conceipted Dido.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres i. 6 Your thirde quicke conceipted man.

1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. clxxix. 752 Humane, rationall, and pleasantly conceited.

1705 N. Rowe Biter i. i. 15 Make up the troll of the Sentence, as merrily conceited Persons are us'd to do.

1579 in W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue sig. Aij^v Vnto which..holy annoynting no conceited Scripture learned or Doctour of the letter..hath in these days attained.

1594 H. Plat Jewell House Title, sig. A3 Diuerse new and conceited Experiments.

1594 H. Platt Div. New Exper. 5 In my conceyted booke of gardening.

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. K1^v Cloud-kissing Illion..Which the conceipted Painter drew so prowd. View more context for this quotation

1583 R. Harvey Astrological Disc. 4 Withoute..pleasurable and conceited floorishes by waye of digression.

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. xii. f. 50 As for the pretty and conceipted chaunge of the woord, argumentum ab arguendo, it seemeth also a Rhetoricall agnomination.

1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 56 A few conceited, merry, and laughing Epitaphes.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iii. 331 The Ægiptians..are commended to be..a conceited and merry Nation.

1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 365 Conceited or witty, lepidus.

1756 Crit. Rev. Apr. 235 He launches out into conceited similes, which ill describe the horror of his mind.

1828 Monthly Rev. June 272 They are verbose, and dull, or full of conceited metaphors, which in sermons are particularly obnoxious to good taste.

1915 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Dec. 451/1 That drily ‘conceited’ sonnet ‘Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war’.

1990 F. Kermode in C. James May Week was in June (verso rear cover) James..is a conceited writer, the Cleveland of modern English prose, every line propelled by a firecracker witticism.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes Pref. sig. **iiij Scornes, tauntes, checkes, iestes, or merie conceipted saiynges to laugh at.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vi. sig. E6^v Such straines of well-conceited poesie.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 8 Some fantastike fore-conceipted plot.

1841 R. Landor Earl of Brecon i. iv. 14 What ill-conceited trasheries are these?

1543 G. Joye Unite & Scisme Olde Chirche f. ix By their own consaighted doctrine..the trowth of the gospel and of the apostles is obscured and oppressed daily.

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel f. 140^v Glytering in their owne conceyted reuerence and honor.

?1575 tr. H. Niclaes Epistolæ xi. v. 243 All Darknes, Conceited-light or False-light, and nothing but Deceit and Seduceing.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. iv. 46 A portion thereof, distinguished..only by a conceited line of partition, neuer heeretofore heard of.

1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 220 His conceited Building of Stone-Heng by the Danes.

1668 J. Flavell Saint Indeed 82 A guilty Conscience is more terrified with conceited dangers, than a pure Conscience is with real ones.

1703 J. Quick Serious Inq. 27 Imaginary and conceited Expedients.

1740 J. Sparrow tr. B. Saviard Observ. Surg. xxxvi. 82 This Patient monthly discharged a large Quantity of Blood, from the Beginning of her conceited Pregnancy.

1579–80 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 98 Delicate in speeche, qweynte in araye, conceitid in all poyntes.

1595 S. Edwardes in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 17 Stately troupes rich conceited.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 30 Are their conceited phantasies, and imaginations..of any greater effect, or importance?

1609 W. Shakespeare (title) Troylus and Cresseid..with the conceited wooing of Pandarus Prince of Licia.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης Pref. sig. B3 The conceited portraiture before his Book..sett there to catch fools.

1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 365 Conceited or fantastical, ineptus.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 263 'Tis a conceited word of the Poet's making.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 36 A consated body, a person given to foolish or nervous notions.

1864 MS Let. in N.E.D. (1891) [Kirkby, Yorkshire] She was always very conceited over her food. The cows are that conceited they will not drink after the others.

1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) iv. sig. H3 In this conceited skarfe she wrought beside A Moone in change.

1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments ii. ii. 69 I will..proceede to the manner of making of Banquetting stuffe and conceited dishes, with other pretty and curious secrets.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 236 A Conceited Chayre to sleepe in with the Leggs stretch'd out with hooks & pieces of wood to draw out longer & shorter.

1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 74 A conceited Chariot, or, to tell the truth, a Cart.

1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy iv. 236 (heading) Of making a conceited Drinking glass, wherein many sorts of Fish will seem to swim up and down.

1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule iii. xl. 89 (heading) Certayne conceyted fellowes voyde of reason or arte.

1609 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes (new ed.) I. §96 A conceited man must be a foole. For, that ouerweening opinion, hee hath of himselfe, excludes al opportunity of purchasing knowledge.

?1682 H. Care Eng. Liberties 106 Silly, Servile, yet conceited and Cruel, Creatures altogether of an Irish understanding.

1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 5 May II. 11 He is one of the conceitedest men living.

1710 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 20 July (1965) I. 45 A tatling, impertinent, vain, and Conceited Creature.

1827 F. Place Diary 19 Apr. in Affairs of Others (2007) 237 Lords Bathurst and Westmorland are two old women, conceited, insolent and capable of all manner of iniquity.

1859 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 224 That I have written in a conceited and cocksure style.

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 208 One of those conceited prigs who value nature only as it feeds..them.

1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood iv. i. 325 Trotsky is evidently intolerably conceited.

1963 W. Soyinka Trials Brother Jero i, in 3 Plays 48 He must have been pretty conceited to think that I did it all for him.

1988 M. Chabon Myst. Pittsburgh xix. 191 Perhaps it was presumptuous and conceited of me..to think that Phlox would really have me back.

2011 Daily Tel. 13 July 19/5 Airheaded, braying, conceited, absurd—such are the youth of west London, to go by..Made in Chelsea.

1588 J. Banester in W. Clowes Prooued Pract. Young Chirurgians sig. B3 If the Author should be..conceited in his owne priuate opinions.

1618 E. Elton Complaint Sanctified Sinner ix. 190 They are highly conceited of themselues.

1692 R. Bentley Confut. Atheism from Origin of World: Pt. I 11 How vitious and corrupt they were; how conceited of their own Wit.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vi. 108 Highly conceited in his superior Knowledge.

1738 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) II. 365 Can there be any man so conceited of his own talents.

1805 J. Whitehouse Jrnl. 20 Jan. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1997) XI. 122 They are Indians of very Quick apprehension, of anything in their way; and Conceited in themselves to a fault.

1876 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches I. i. iv. 203 The less a man knows, the more conceited he is of his proficiency.

1915 Motion Picture Mag. Oct. 167/1 I am sure that he is not conceited of his work.

1585 T. Wilcox Expos. vppon Bk. Canticles Ep. Ded. sig. A3^v If a man bring new thinges, they are discontented... And if a man, tread in the steps of the auncient, their stomackes loath it... And yet these men that are so diuersly conceited, hatch or bring foorth nothing of their owne.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1552/2 Wherewith he could not but be pleasantlie conceipted.

1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence i. 6 The first language..whereof diuers haue bin diuersly conceyted.

1664 J. Newburgh in J. Evelyn Pomona in Sylva 45 They are strongly conceited that this addition..doth..meliorate their Cider.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. I'm consated he'll kill his sen' wi' drink.

1912 S. R. Crockett Moss Troopers xiii. 106 She fought wild and bitter like a trapped wild cat..but Southwald was conceited that he could gentle her.

1589 True Coppie Disc. Late Voy. Spaine & Portingale 8 It may be you wil thinke me..too much opiniated of the Voiage, or conceited of the Commanders.

1612 J. Smith Map of Virginia 29 Of our Chirurgians they were so conceipted, that they beleeued any Plaister would heale any hurt.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 35 So much conceited of a Novelty.

1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 45 Be yourself thoroughly conceited of your deserts.

1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. I. 68 This proud Nation, fondly conceited of its antiquity.

1612 J. Panke Eclogarius 6 To bee so conceited to our cause.., is willingly to cast our selues headlong into the gulfe of endlesse woe.

1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie viii. 15 Many men..will hardly be perswaded to be thereto conceited.

1797 Scots Mag. Aug. 534/2 They [sc. our southern nibours] are sae conceited to their margoullying their vowels, consonants and dipthongs,..that nae yin o' a hunder can be understood.