conceptionistn.adj.

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος sig. B9 The greatest and the purest Wits and Conceptionists of the world at those times, were not able to finde it out, and so it lay by the Lee, as I may so say, for a long time.

1757 A. Butler Lives Saints III. 477 The Capucinesses, the Annunciades, the Conceptionists..and the most austere Reformation of the Ave-Maria in Paris, are branches of the rule of St. Clare.

1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. xi. 95 He paid down the price of her admission among the Conceptionists.

1912 Eccles. Rev. Apr. 414 The Annunciades and the Conceptionists are in some sense offshoots of the Order of St. Clare, but they now follow different Rules from that of the Poor Ladies.

1966 Hispanic Amer. Rev. 46 386 The Conceptionists of Mérida could hardly provide nine reals a week to each of its nuns, who had to obtain the rest of their support through their own work.

c1824–6 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1984) II. 1146 An ample and most ordonnant Conceptionist, to the tranquil Empyrean of Ideas he had not ascended.

1844 Anglo-American 19 Oct. 608/1 ‘What will the newspapers say!’ is the secret tenor of many a conceptionist in public life.

1920 Ld. Fisher Memories & Rec. I. iii. 58 To be a good Admiral, a man does not need to be a good sailor... He wants good sailors under him. He is the Conceptionist.

1800 Archaeologia 13 270 Conceptionist Nuns in Paris.

1888 Edinb. Rev. July 157 Forty Englishwomen were sent to the English Conceptionist convent.

1971 Mod. Lang. Rev. 66 602 The poetry of an anonymous Conceptionist nun, dating from about 1543–7, was published in 1927.

2011 C. Roden Food of Spain 570 I rented a room at El Monasterio de Santa María del Socorro, the convent of a Conceptionist Franciscan order of nuns.