What is "preconceive"

Usage examples of "preconceive".

And henceforth, won over by that feast of colours, she would have declared it all capital if he would only have condescended to finish his work a little more, and if she had not remained nonplussed now and then before a mauve ground or a blue tree, which upset all her preconceived notions of colour.

It becomes me but ill to speak so warmly in favour of that body of whom I am the least worthy member, but what other is there in Erewhon so above all suspicion of slovenliness, selfseeking, preconceived bias, or bad faith?

Leaving aside the preconceived ideas of most historians and their pronounced predilection for the dramatic aspects of history, we see that the very documents they habitually peruse are such as to exaggerate the part of human life given to struggles and to underrate its peaceful moods.

Entering into a red sector with preconceived notions was just about the worst of the cardinal sins a detective could commit.

The water foamed as it fell in rapids and cataracts, which confirmed the doctor in his preconceived ideas on the subject.

My preconceived notions of Dutiful, my possessive idealizations of what my natural son would be like, stood between me and the frail threads of the Skill-link I sought to untangle.

Just as in the case of atomism, they seemed to prove the validity of the preconceived idea of the current.

Investigators and citizens in the community had a preconceived idea of what Jack the Ripper would look like.

I had no preconceived idea of the sensations that would mark the drug's initial effect, since these were said to vary prodigiously with the temperament of the users.

Or did you and your team work from a preconceived notion that Kharzh’.

Some emotionslike the Bolo, itselfdefied all attempts to fit them into a preconceived notion of reality.

They'll continue to overlook the import of parapsychology, I'm afraid, until they're able--as Huxley put it--'to sit down before fact as a little child--be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses nature leads.

The pair of them stood there, looking tremendously uncomfortable, each silently reinforcing the other's preconceived notion that this 'do-it-yourself wedding' (as Phil referred to it) was going to be (as Stratton kept predicting) 'an incredible horror show.

Copperfield, and I had to lay claim to myself, and they had to divest themselves of a preconceived opinion that Traddles was Mr.

The day will come when this will be given as a curious illustration of the blindness of preconceived opinion.