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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A simplified spelling of conceive.

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  • This part was austere, compared to that where the Kingpriest and the court resided, although still filled with every conceiv - able luxury by Krynnish standards.

    Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

  • This part was austere, compared to that where the Kingpriest and the court resided, although still filled with every conceiv - able luxury by Krynnish standards.

    Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988

  • But for what conceiv - able reason was the cliff on the southern shore five hun - dred metres high, instead of the fifty here?

    Rendezvous With Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

  • But for what conceiv - able reason was the cliff on the southern shore five hun - dred metres high, instead of the fifty here?

    Rendezvous with Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

  • On the one hand, the realization of the inevitability of death may conceiv - ably have preceded the suspicion of its finality.

    DEATH AND IMMORTALITY JACQUES CHORON 1968

  • The real essence of the conceiv - able quasi rigid continuation of a body Bo is the infinite

    Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950

  • The only conceiv - able escape for him lay in silencing my tongue.

    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger has officially confirmed he's not much for monogamy, it's hard to know who's got the rawer end of the deal: his four children with Maria Shriver or the young boy conceiv...

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  • And therefore I think it no way agreeable to a true natural Historian, to pretend to be so sharp-sighted, as to see what a pre-conceiv'd _Hypothesis_ tells them should be there, where another man, though perhaps as seeing, but not forestall'd, can discover no such matter.

    Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

  • Every conceiv-able element that goes into producing the events, such as flights, carpet and electricity is considered when calculating our footprint.

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