reconceive

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English conceive

English reconceive

From re- + conceive.

Verb

reconceive (third-person singular simple present reconceives, present participle reconceiving, simple past and past participle reconceived)

1. To conceive something in a new way
   • 2001, Don DeLillo, The Body Artist, page 77:

     It is a kind of time that is simply and overwhelmingly there, laid out, unoccurring, and he lacks the inborn ability to reconceive this condition.

   • 2009 January 16, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Tradition and Change Battle on the Mall”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Once a bustling thoroughfare, the section of Pennsylvania Avenue that borders the White House has been reconceived as a pedestrian strip paved in granite and protected by guard stations to keep people at a safe distance from the president.

Related terms

• reconception