Foreconceive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Foreconceive is a verb meaning (transitive) To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
Meaning
(transitive) To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
Example Sentences
I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived.
To imagine the new is to foreconceive, as in the Heideggerian Vorlage, which can only be expressed in language.
Thus one ought to “color”—foreconceive or frame—the other. The more familiar will be thought to be an example, Aristotle says, yet he also defines the example as this total relation of incompleteness: part to part (without wholes).
Word Forms
- foreconceives
- foreconceiving
- foreconceived
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include preconceive, forethink, preimagine, precontrive, foreken, foreconsider.
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