conceive

1. (ambitransitive) To have a child; to become pregnant (with).Examples: "Assisted procreation can help those trying to conceive."; "She hath also conceived a son in her old age."ambitransitive

2. (transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.Examples: "It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life."; "At the mouth of the cave we found a single litter with six bearers, all of them mutes, waiting, and with them I was relieved to see our old friend Billali, for whom I had conceived a sort of affection."; "There are, moreover, grounds for thinking that the Rosaline of Love’s Labour’s Lost was originally conceived of by Shakespeare as pale with black eyes—..."transitive

3. (ambitransitive with of, ditransitive) To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.Examples: "Can you conceive of him as a leader?"; "We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus."; "[…]you will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the ſame Climate […]"ambitransitiveditransitivewith-of

4. (transitive) To understand (someone).Examples: "I conceive you."transitive