PRECONCEIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preconceive mean? 

• PRECONCEIVE (verb)
  The verb PRECONCEIVE has 1 sense:

1. conceive beforehand

  Familiarity information: PRECONCEIVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRECONCEIVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they preconceive    ... he / she / it preconceives   
Past simple: preconceived   
Past participle: preconceived   
-ing form: preconceiving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conceive beforehand

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

a preconceived notion

Hypernyms (to "preconceive" is one way to...):

conceive; conceptualise; conceptualize; gestate (have the idea for)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

preconception (an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence)

 Context examples 

Jane's alertness in moving, proved her as ready as her aunt had preconceived.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Traddles had to indicate that I was Mr. Copperfield, and I had to lay claim to myself, and they had to divest themselves of a preconceived opinion that Traddles was Mr. Copperfield, and altogether we were in a nice condition.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)