a. rare. [ad. L. concipient-em, pr. pple. of concipĕre to CONCEIVE.] That conceives, conceiving.
1812. H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., xv. By puffs concipient some in ether flit.
1825. Coleridge, Lay Serm., Statesm. Man., App. B. The man himself considered as a concipient as well as percipient being.
1852. Fraser’s Mag., XLVI. 90. That wondrous hermaphrodite, who Self-concipient, breeds from no embrace.
