foreconceive en · VERB
Etymology
From fore- + conceive.
Meanings
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(transitive) To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
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).
2012, Irene E. Harvey, Labyrinths of Exemplarity: At the Limits of Deconstruction:I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:To imagine the new is to foreconceive, as in the Heideggerian Vorlage, which can only be expressed in language.
2007, Christopher D. Morris, The Figure of the Road:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| foreconceiving | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| foreconceived | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| foreconceived | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| foreconceives | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |