conceptible

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

See conceive.

Adjective[edit]

conceptible (comparative more conceptible, superlative most conceptible)

  1. Capable of being conceived; conceivable.
    • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: [] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, [], published 1677, →OCLC:
      it is not conceptible that in an infinite , or indeed in a very long period of Revolutions of Mankind , those or any things of this kind discoverable would have been of so late a puisne a discovery

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