Literary notes about Conceived (AI summary)
The term "conceived" in literature is remarkably versatile, serving to denote both the formation of ideas and the literal act of creation. Authors use it to signal the completion of an intellectual action or a theory's inception—as when an argument or cultural norm is fully developed [1, 2]. At the same time, the word vividly describes biological conception and the birth of characters or peoples, evoking moments of miraculous creation in Biblical or mythic narratives [3, 4, 5]. In other contexts, "conceived" functions as a marker for the way abstract notions, such as ideals, scientific principles, or social institutions, are mentally formulated or perceived [6, 7, 8]. This breadth of usage enriches the literary landscape, allowing the same term to reflect both the creative act of forming an idea and the tangible beginning of life or structure.
- But if the action is conceived as completed, the perfect is used: as, sērō resistimus ē̆ī quem per annōs decem aluimus , Att.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - The ideal, however, would not come down from the empyrean and be conceived unless somebody's thought were absorbed in the conception.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
— from The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete - Some time after Gandhari conceived and she bore the burden in her womb for two long years without being delivered.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - CHAPTER XVII THE INSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT Under what general idea then should the act by which government is instituted be conceived as falling?
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Nature, in a word, is at first conceived mythically, dramatically, and retains much of the unintelligible, sporadic habit of animal experience itself.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - Whatever plan of action he may adopt will receive from me the same zealous cooperation and energetic support as though conceived by myself.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman
