conceit

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Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. (defdate)
(RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)
(RQ:KJV)
(quote-book)|title=The Vagrant|passage=It was after a night like this that I shocked the community with a queer conceit about the burial of the rich and celebrated Squire Brewster (..)
The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.

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(RQ:Sidney Arcadia)
Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2)
Opinion, (neutral) judgment. (defdate)
Esteem, favourable opinion. (defdate)
(quote-text)
(RQ:Richardson Clarissa)
A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. (defdate)
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
(RQ:Pope Essay on Criticism)
{{quote-text|en|year=1693|author=John Dryden|title=An Essay on Satire
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
{{quote-text|en|year=2012|author=Lauren Elkin; Scott Esposito|title=The End of Oulipo?: An attempt to exhaust a movement
(senseid) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or device. (defdate)

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(quote-journal)
(quote-book)
Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. (defdate)
{{quote-text|en|year=1826|author=Nathaniel Cotton|title=Fables
Design; pattern.
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)
To form an idea; to think.
{{quote-text|en|year=1643|author=John Milton|url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/ddd/book_1/|title=The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
To conceive.
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)
(quote-book)|author=(w) to (w)|location=London|publisher=A.G. and F. P.|year=c. 1620s|year_published=1680|page=36|passage=This Medicine he conceits worse than the Disesase.
{{quote-text|en|year=1646|author=Sir Thomas Browne|title=Pseudodoxia Epidemica|section=V.23
(RQ:South Twelve Sermons) as if they really were so.
(alt form)