What is "conceived"

Usage examples of "conceived".

What astonished the most acute was that this wonderful treaty was conceived and carried out by a young ambassador who had hitherto been famed only as a wit.

The company rose from table, and then began a foul orgy which I should never have conceived possible, and which no pen could describe, though possibly a seasoned profligate might get some idea of it.

But I perceived that the elegance of the snuff-box did no harm to the opinion the abbot had conceived of me.

He conceived a very favourable opinion of your character from your first letter, not only because you had chosen the parlour of the convent for our first interview, but also because you appointed his casino at Muran instead of your own.

I returned to my mother at Lausanne, where my health soon returned, and I went into the service of an English lady who was very fond of me, and would have taken me with her to Italy if she had not conceived some suspicions about the young Duke of Rosebury, with whom she was in love, and whom she thought in love with me.

I encouraged her fears, and succeeded in making her obtain from a cabalistic pyramid the statement that the reason the princess had not conceived was that she had been defiled by an evil genius--an enemy of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross.

Delighted, however, with my discovery, I immediately conceived a plan which would procure you the pleasure of supping with him.

Lebel conceived this plan that he might have his mind at rest on the supposed force of blood, in which he declares he believes no more than I do.

I told him that I would not go out till I had the honour of receiving his master, and I conceived the idea of questioning him concerning that which lay next to my heart.

Cordiani had conceived a scheme, and I could not help listening to all he had to say about it.

All these questions were artfully conceived, all were so worded as to force the oracle to order me to satisfy her, or to definitely forbid my doing so.

From that moment I felt I was in love with her, and I conceived the hope that she might return my ardent affection.

I began to rack my brains to find a way of carrying the idea into execution, and I conceived a hundred schemes, each one bolder than the other, but a new plan always made me give up the one I was on the point of accepting.

When we were taking dessert, I conceived the idea of making her drunk to get her talk of her sister, so I gave her a glass of Lunel muscat.

It was at my suggestions that the Abbe de Voisenon conceived the idea of composing oratorios in poetry.