Crossword-Solution: PRECONCEIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preconceive | v. t. | To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “PRECONCEIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| to form (as an opinion) prior to actual knowledge or experience | 1 answer |
| prearrange | 31 answers |
| presume | 65 answers |
| Scent | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRECONCEIVE (5)
How little did I preconceive the conduct which, in an exigence like this, I should be prone to adopt.
How little did I preconceive the conduct which, in an exigence like this, I should be prone to adopt! You will suppose that deliberation and despair would have suggested the same course of action, and that I should have unhesitatingly resorted to the best means of personal defense within my power.
Now when my soul recovered from amazement at the marvels seen, I arose and went from the starry roofs to consult my books of magic, and 'twas revealed to me that one was wandering to a junction with my destiny, and that by his means the great aim would of a surety be accomplished--Shagpat Shaved! So my purpose was to discover him; and I made calculations, and summoned them that serve me to search for such a youth as thou art; fairly, O my betrothed, did I preconceive thee.
But archæologists are the narrowest and dryest of men,--they preconceive a certain system of work and follow it out by mathematical rule and plan, without one touch of imagination to help them to discover new channels of interest or historical information.
All the fraternising with Americans in London and elsewhere, our reading of their newspapers and their books, printed in the words of our own language, pictures and photographs of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour, of the sky-scrapers in the background and the Fifth Avenue that glitters on a summer's day, all the pictures of Boston and Washington, or of the boulevards and business activities of Chicago, will not help any one to preconceive those places exactly.