[f. CONCEPTION + -IST.]
1. One who deals with or limits himself to conceptions.
a. 1834. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1836), III. 32. An ample and most ordonnant conceptionist, to the tranquil empyrean of ideas he had not ascended.
2. A member of the R. C. order of the Conception: also attrib.
1800. Archæol., XIII. 270. Conceptionist Nuns in Paris.
1857. E. Oliver, in Coll. Cath. Relig., 282. This new order of the Conceptionists, founded by Monseigneur Eugène Mazenod.
