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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conceit \Con*ceit"\, n. [Through French, fr. L. conceptus a conceiving, conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. OF. p. p. nom. conciez conceived. See Conceive, and cf. Concept, Deceit.]
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That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.
In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
--Bacon.A man wise in his own conceit.
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2. Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit. [Obs.]
How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
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Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
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A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.
On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit.
--L'Estrange.Some to conceit alone their works confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.
--Pope.Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
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An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.
Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.
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Design; pattern. [Obs.]
--Shak.In conceit with, in accord with; agreeing or conforming.
Out of conceit with, not having a favorable opinion of; not pleased with; as, a man is out of conceit with his dress.
To put [one] out of conceit with, to make one indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.
Conceit \Con*ceit"\, v. t. To conceive; to imagine. [Archaic]
The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly
rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so.
--South.
One of two bad ways you must conceit me,
Either a coward or a flatterer.
--Shak.
Conceit \Con*ceit"\, v. i. To form an idea; to think. [Obs.]
Those whose . . . vulgar apprehensions conceit but low
of matrimonial purposes.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "something formed in the mind, thought, notion," from conceiven (see conceive) based on analogy of deceit and receipt. Sense evolved from "something formed in the mind," to "fanciful or witty notion" (1510s), to "vanity" (c.1600) through shortening of self-conceit (1580s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. (14th–18th c.) 2 The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension. 3 Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. 4 (context obsolete English) opinion, (neutral) judgment. (14th–18th c.) 5 (context now rare dialectal English) esteem, favourable opinion. (from 15th c.) 6 (context countable English) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. (from 16th c.) 7 (context countable rhetoric literature English) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. (from 16th c.) 8 (context uncountable English) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. (from 17th c.) 9 Design; pattern. vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To form an idea; to think. 2 (context obsolete transitive English) To conceive.
WordNet
n. feelings of excessive pride [syn: amour propre, self-love, vanity]
the trait of being vain and conceited [syn: vanity]
Wikipedia
In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison. Extended conceits in English are part of the poetic idiom of Mannerism, during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.
A conceit is an extended metaphor, especially in literature.
Conceit also may refer to:
- Conceit (novel) (2007), by Mary Novik
- Conceit (rapper) (fl. c. 2007), American musician
- Excessive self-esteem, hubris
Conceit is a 1921 American silent drama film produced and released by Selznick Pictures Corporation. The film stars William B. Davidson and Mrs. De Wolf Hopper, who later became a gossip columnist using the name "Hedda Hopper".
This is a film preserved at the UCLA Film & Tv Archives.
Conceit (fl. c. 2007} is an American rapper from San Francisco.
He won the Youtube.com "On The Rise" video contest, where the finalists were selected by 50 Cent, and in 2007 a record deal with Interscope Records and a gift certificate with Guitar Center.
Conceit has played with ODB (of Wu-Tang Clan), KRS-One, Hieroglyphics, Living Legends, X-Men, Fatlip, Immortal Technique, Jurassic 5, Quannum, Devin The Dude, Triple Threat Deejays, Zion I, and others. He also has appeared in both The Rock Steady 25th Anniversary and I.T.F. World Championships. Strong sponsorship by LRG & Militree Clothing.
Conceit is a novel by the Canadian author Mary Novik, published in 2007 by Doubleday Canada.
Set in 17th century London, Conceit is the story of Pegge Donne, the daughter of the metaphysical poet John Donne, a contemporary of Shakespeare. Other fictional characters based on historical people are Donne's wife Ann More, the diarist Samuel Pepys, the fisherman Izaak Walton and, appearing briefly, Christopher Wren. Both old and new St Paul's Cathedral (of which Donne was Dean, 1621-1631) and the Great Fire of London 1666 feature in the novel, which has been praised for bringing London vividly to life. The story is told from the point of view of several characters, including Pegge and her parents Ann and John Donne. Featured in the narrative are Donne's love poems, his Devotions, and his sermons—in particular, Death's Duel, a sermon the moribund Donne preached to Charles I. The novel also draws upon Izaak Walton's 1640 biography, more myth than history, The Life of Dr John Donne, leading Donne scholar Jeanne Shami to call Conceit a "great novel based on a poor one."
After the clandestine marriage to Ann More that ruined his career, John Donne reportedly said, "John Donne. Ann Donne. Undone." In Novik's novel, Pegge obsesses about their love affair. Piecing together the story she finds in her father's love poems, she identifies with her mother and invents a fiction about their lives. When her father tries to place his two sons in careers and arrange marriages for his five daughters, Pegge defies him, seeking a passion to equal his.
The title of Novik's novel, Conceit, alludes to both the vanity of her fictionalized John Donne and the conceit, a literary device used by the metaphysical poets. The metaphysical conceit is a far-fetched comparison, as when Donne, in his poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", compares two separated lovers to a geometry compass with its legs roaming apart. Several critics, including Edward O'Connor and Gudrun Will, have pointed out that Novik's novel is itself a conceit, "in the best literary sense of the word".
Conceit was chosen as a Book of the Year by both The Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire. Canada Reads named Conceit one of the Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade.
Usage examples of "conceit".
The dropping of acquaintanceship with him, after the taste of its privileges, she ascribed, in the void of any better elucidation, to a mania of aristocratic conceit.
I said that the tone, the manners I adopted towards her, were those of good society, and proved the great esteem I entertained for her intelligence, but in the middle of all my fine speeches, towards the eleventh or twelfth day of my courtship, she suddenly put me out of all conceit by telling me that, being a priest, I ought to know that every amorous connection was a deadly sin, that God could see every action of His creatures, and that she would neither damn her soul nor place herself under the necessity of saying to her confessor that she had so far forgotten herself as to commit such a sin with a priest.
Shakespeare to Macha, erecting in its place a new catachrestic conceit more suitable for the times in which he lived.
Ann Hutchinson, with a vast conceit of her superior holiness and with the ugly censoriousness which is a usual accompaniment of that grace, demonstrated her genius for mixing a theological controversy with personal jealousies and public anxieties, and involved the whole colony of the Bay in an acrimonious quarrel, such as to give an unpleasant tone of partisanship and ill temper to the proceedings in her case, whether ecclesiastical or civil.
As no woman was ever more conceited of her beauty, or more desirous of making impression on the hearts of beholders, no one ever went to a greater extravagance in apparel, or studied more the variety and richness of her dresses.
Highly conceited of his own wisdom, he pleased himself with the fancy, that this raw youth, by his lessons and instructions, would, in a little time, be equal to his sagest ministers, and be initiated into all the profound mysteries of government, on which he set so high a value.
Marking all this, Stubb argued well for his scheme, and turning to the Guernsey-man had a little chat with him, during which the stranger mate expressed his detestation of his Captain as a conceited ignoramus, who had brought them all into so unsavory and unprofitable a pickle.
Insufferably conceited about his intellect and convinced it has no peer.
Were I humble enough to treat them as my equals by being natural with them, they would then call me a conceited ass and a cad.
I were conceited, I would observe that it developed immediately after we left Lady Ware and her friend.
I were conceited, I might interpret all this concern for my safety to mean that you have a care for me.
But, leaving aside all such incidental speculations, the chief interest of the dynamic atomistic or monad theory, as affording a solid basis for immortality, is in relation to the arrogance of a shallow and conceited materialism.
It seems to me to shew an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.
I suspect his gratitude misleads him, and that in spite of her being his patroness, she is an arrogant, conceited woman.
Since he was conceited and had enjoyed much success with women from all walks of life, Ross convinced himself that Paula would one day be his alone.