Pl. -tti. [It.:—L. cenceptum: see CONCEIT.] = CONCEIT sb. 8: a term originally proper to Italian literature.
1737. Common Sense (1738), I. 25. Prohibit all Concetti, and Luxuriancies of Fancy.
1750. Chesterf., Lett. to Son, ccxvii. (1792) II. 337. The Aminto del Tasso, is much more what it is intended to be, a Pastoral; the shepherds, indeed, have their concetti, and their antitheses; but are not quite so sublime and abstracted, as those in Pastor Fido.
1853. Kingsley, A. Smith & A. Pope, Misc. I. 276. Let … the concetti [be] as fanciful and far-fetched as possible.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, x. 324. In the later Greek literature of the Sophists we find many very exquisite concetti.
