a. Obs. [f. CONCEIT sb. + -FUL.] Full of ‘conceit’; clever, witty; imaginative.

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1594.  (title) Diana; or, the excellent conceitful Sonnets of H. C[onstable].

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c. 1595.  J. Dickenson, Sheph. Compl. (1878), 14. Whose golden lines are mongst conceitfull men, Esteem’d as doth his labours best behooue.

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1607.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. I. (1641), 201. O richest Arras, artificiall wrought With liveliest colours of conceipt-full Thought.

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