Conceit

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Design; pattern.

II. Conceit ·noun An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.

III. Conceit ·vi To form an idea; to Think.

IV. Conceit ·noun Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

V. Conceit ·vt To Conceive; to Imagine.

VI. Conceit ·noun Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.

VII. Conceit ·noun That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.

VIII. Conceit ·noun A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.

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