a. Obs. [mod. f. L. concept- ppl. stem of concipĕre: cf. mod.F. conceptible, (prob.) med. or mod. L. conceptibilis: see -BLE.] = CONCEIVABLE.

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1650.  Hobbes, Hum. Nat., xi. (R.). Spirits we suppose to be those substances which work not upon the sense; and therefore not conceptible.

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1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., I. i. 13. Easily conceptible by us.

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1695.  Howe, Lett. to Friend, Wks. (1834), 155. Not by parts, other than conceptible.

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  b.  as sb. Anything conceivable.

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1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., I. vi. 118. If any Conceptible is more nothing than another, Duration without a thing that dureth … is … the absolutest Nothing.

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