Meanings of conceptive in English

In one case the conceptive faculty fails you; in the other the descriptive.

The pressing want to produce is as wholly natural, as innate, as independent of the individual's volition as the conceptive impulse itself.

In the same way the poet operates upon the material supplied him by his emotions, projecting it into an image for the conceptive faculty.

Mother, Matter, passive principle, conceptive power, 87-m. Mother-night, name given by Goths to Festival of the Winter Solstice, 368-u.

It was the fierce, instinctive impulse that accompanies all creative power, the tremendous impetus towards production that is an integral part of all conceptive capacity.