conceptible

English

Etymology

See conceive.

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• inconceptible

 

References

• “conceptible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.