单词 | reconceive |
释义 | reconceivev. transitive. To conceive again or in a new way; to reconsider something. Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > conceive, form in the mind [verb (transitive)] > again reconceive1656 1656 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum (new ed.) iii. 10 The will hath here re-conceived it selfe to goe againe out of the Anguish into the Liberty. 1787 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis 53 She laughs, cries and blots,..screams and looks wild, reconceives and indites. 1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. 113 Reconceive if you can my cosmological conception. 1889 Literary World (Boston) 2 Feb. 39/1 Both [books] attempt to reconceive Jesus. 1958 J. Barth End of Road vi. 103 But since no man's life story as a rule is ever one story with a coherent plot, we're always reconceiving just the sort of hero we are. 1994 K. O'Keeffe in D. E. Scragg & P. E. Szarmach Editing Old Eng. 151 Thinking about the materiality of a text requires reconceiving our notion of the nature of an Old English poem and its mode of being. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1656 |
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