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Meanings of conceive the idea in English

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Usage of conceive the idea in English
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Hosea could not conceive the idea that God would desert Israel forever.
Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)
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He was the first Greek to conceive the idea of a maritime empire.
Authors of Greece
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Watt was the first to conceive the idea of warming buildings by steam.
Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
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I can conceive the idea better than I could a few months ago.
Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
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Even Aristotle could not conceive the idea of a society existing without slavery.
Sophisms of the Protectionists
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For my part, I conceive the idea to be perfectly just.
Paris as It Was and as It Is / A Sketch Of The French Capital, I...
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He could not conceive the idea of a hostile England.
The Education of Henry Adams
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It was not possible for Plato, Demosthenes, or Cicero, to conceive the idea of constitutionalism.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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What probability could there be that any man should conceive the idea of such a journey?
The Moon-Voyage
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It will be sufficient for my young friend to conceive the idea of going to the Coanza.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
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No country in Europe-noteven Protestant Germany-couldthen conceive the idea of their existing independently of each other.
The Leading Facts of English History
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I found myself wondering how these half-civilized brutes had possibly managed to conceive the idea of the spiral stair.
Under the Andes
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With the child-brain that was to him he have long since conceive the idea of coming to a great city.
Dracula
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It was not hard to understand that the splendid animal in the Senora could never conceive the idea, of its utter extinction.
The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
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The desire which has always been mine to persecute the Christians caused me to conceive the idea of serving in your sea-army.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem ...
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Producers, for example, who in Freeland conceive the idea of increasing their gains by laying an impost upon imports, must be idiotic.
Freeland: A Social Anticipation
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