Does not this cast a light upon the conceptive and receptive powers of the eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference

The man of the most practised intellect is not exempt from the universal laws of our conceptive faculty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

The comprehensive and conceptive faculty of the imagination is wearied in placing before itself the springs, the action, and the boundless beneficence of this grand force, which flourishes and lives in its highest efficiency in the breast of woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Forces, First Born, emanated from generative and conceptive, 267-m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

He held that the range of the mind's power of conceptive thought lies between two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outline of Universal History] Reference

The most practised intellect is not exempt from the universal laws of our conceptive faculty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

The most practiced intellect is not exempt from the universal laws of our conceptive faculty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

Of the powers of the mind there be two sorts, cognitive or imaginative or conceptive; and motive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference

They were not, therefore, deterred by the vacuity and poor conceptive faculty of the artists from employing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference

Now there is nothing in this process which necessarily eludes the conceptive or imagining power of the human mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

As it has received what it gives, Light and Life, it is equally considered as the generative and conceptive Principle, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

And thus much of sense, imagination, discursion, ratiocination, and knowledge, which are the acts of our power cognitive, or conceptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference

On the other hand, there is more conceptive power in youth, and at that time of life a man can make more out of the little that he knows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counsels and Maxims] Reference

Fixing my mind on a certain object, I strove to call it up in the character, not of an image of the conceptive faculty, but of a fever-vision on the retina.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

And the faculty, or power, by which we are capable of such knowledge, is that I here call power cognitive, or conceptive, the power of knowing or conceiving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Law Natural and Politic] Reference

In the case of Ellish, it proceeded from both; her mind was apt, vigorous, and conceptive; her body active, her manners bland and insinuating, and her penetration almost intuitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference

There can be no stronger proof of the greatness of her genius, of her possessing that conceptive faculty which belongs to the higher order of imagination, than the avidity with which 'Uncle Tom' was read at the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe] Reference

Moisture, or air, or numbers, carried to their minds a precisely similar impression of making intelligible what was otherwise inconceivable, and gave the same full satisfaction to the demands of their conceptive faculty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

Well, yeah, as I mentioned in the script, obviously we are doing the conceptive designs for the Takeo project, while on the other hand we are pursuing another even more exciting and in my view it's an even better project.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Gaming Asia CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript -- Seeking Alpha] Reference

His first emanation, a ray of light; the cause and principle of everything that exists, uniting both the generative and conceptive power, which penetrates everything, and without which nothing could subsist for an instant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

Moisture, or air, or numbers, carried to their minds a precisely similar impression of making that intelligible which was otherwise inconceivable, and gave the same full satisfaction to the demands of their conceptive faculty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

They thus rest their case on an appeal to the inherent laws of our conceptive faculty; mistaking, as I apprehend, for the laws of that faculty its acquired habits, grounded on the spontaneous tendencies of its uncultured state.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

It is full of passages of rare technical excellence, as well as of conceptive beauty: so full, indeed, that the sympathetic reader of it as a drama will be too apt to overlook its radical shortcomings, cast as it is in the dramatic mould.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning] Reference

He cited Hetty as proof that only a woman could have written the book, and said this character could "only be delineated as it is by an author combining the intense feelings and sympathies of a woman with the conceptive power of artistic genius.".    From Wordnik.com.  [George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy] Reference

'Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference

His experience through half a century in the planning of monuments, the painting of the Sistine vault, the designing of façades and sacristies and libraries, had developed the architectonic sense which was always powerful in his conceptive faculty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference

He cited Hetty as proof that only a woman could have written the book, and said this character could “only be delineated as it is by an author combining the intense feelings and sympathies of a woman with the conceptive power of artistic genius.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy]

But when he banished from his mind the idea of this personal and almighty power, and with that idea banished all its associations, he then felt that he had a right to argue more freely, and forthwith made his conceptive faculty a test of abstract possibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Candid Examination of Theism] Reference

The design and anatomical proportions of the figures are faulty, but there is a force of expression about them which shows the skill and conceptive force of the artist. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

Mr. Spencer’s doctrine, therefore, does not erect the curable, but only the incurable limitations of the human conceptive faculty, into laws of the outward universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference

The Genetically Modified Poem: Another perceptive and conceptive work from Dave B: ".    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Save the World] Reference

Her eyes no ray conceptive flung. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3] Reference

Mother, Matter, passive principle, conceptive power, 87-m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

I, H, U, H designates the generative and conceptive Forces, 267-u.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference