canceptacle, canceptaculum

[Lat. conceptaculum = that which receives something, a receptacle; concipio ( -cep i, -ceptum ) = to take to one's self, to receive: con cum together, and capio =to take.] IMG:content-0463.png:[blocks in formation] B. Chem .: A proce which has for its object to increase the amount of a di olved substance in a liquid, relatively to the quantity of the solvent, without adding any more of the di olved substance itself. When the solvent is volatile this object is effected by evaporation, as when water, alcohol, or ether is expelled from a solution by heat, by exposure to the air, or in vacuo . If the di olved substance is more volatile than the solvent, the concentration is effected by distillation, the more concentrated liquid being then found in the distil. late, as in the rectification of hydrated alcohol and of volatile oils di olved in water. In the case of aqueous liquids, concentration is sometimes effected by freezing out the water; in this manner a strong solution of salt may be obtained from sea from it, lying water; strong spirit from vinous liquids, . A loosely in the similar principle is applied to the separation of of the silver from lead. The argentiferous lead is melted cell. Example and left to cool till about two-thirds of the ma is -Asclepias, the solidified. This consists of nearly pure lead, the fruit of which portion which still remains liquid being an alloy is generally richer in silver than the original ma . By repeat called a folliing this operation several times the alloy at last cle; in fact, the becomes sufficiently rich in silver to be treated by IMG:content-0464.png:[blocks in formation] of which do not adhere as in the follicle to the placenta, but are separate IMG:content-0465.png:[blocks in formation] subject or point. "I po e ed, even as a child, an unusual share of what phrenologists call concentrative ne . The power of ab sorption, of self-forgetfulne , was at the same timeba (2) A special organ on the surface or in the in source of delight and a torment." Bayard Tavior: Home and Abroad (2d. ser.), vii., p. 435. terior of a receptacle containing the organs of reproduction, as well as their acce ories. It is not pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, conceptibility kind. I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act conceiving. IMG:content-0466.png:[blocks in formation] -ive .] child. [II 1.] (2) Fig.: The first origin of anything. "For all is perfect that God works on earth, And he that gives conception aids the birth." Cowper: Conversation. IMG:content-0467.png:[blocks in formation] 'tis a thing impo ible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires." Words worth: Excursion, bk. iv. *(2) Conceit, an affected sentiment. II. Technically: 1. Phys.: The first formation of the embryo of an animal; the first animation of the ovum at the moment when it escapes from the ovarium, pa ing through the Fallopian tube to the uterus. 2. Mental Phil .: (1) The cognition of cla es, as distinguished from individuals; that special application of abstraction, comparison, and attention which elaborates what logicians call notions or concepts; the act of the mind in producing concepts or notions. (2) The notions or concepts so produced; the "general" or " abstract ideas" of Locke; the "abstract general notions" of Hamilton. These are properly expre ed by common terms, and constitute the object of study in pure or formal logic. The number of attributes embraced in a concept or notion constitutes its intension, comprehension, or logical content, and this determines its area or sphere of applicability, that is, its extension or log ical extent. These two quantities exist in an inverse ratio to one another. The maximum of the extent of a conception or notion is the minimum of the content, and the maximum of the content is the minimum of the extent. On this single maxim Pure or Formal Logic has been based. ( Kant , Sir Wm . Hamilton, Prof. Campbell Fraser , Edinburgh University.) Dugald Stewart used conception as equivalent to reproductive imagination, and Reid used it as convertible with imagining, understanding, or comprehending. " Imagining should not be confounded with conceiving, ., though some philosophers, as Gas send i, have not attended to the distinction. The words, conception , concept , notion, should be limited to what cannot be represented in the imagination, as the thought suggested by a general term. The Leibnitzians call this symbolical in contrast to intuitive knowledge. This is the sense in which conceptio and conceptus have been usually and correctly employed. Mr. Stewart, on the other hand, arbitrarily limits conception to the reproduction, in imagination, of an object of sense as actually perceived."-Sir William Hamilton's Note on Reid, The Intellectual Powers , p. 360. "The term conception , which means a taking up in bundles and grasping into unity, ought to have been left to denote, what it previously was and only properly could be, applied to expre the notions we have of cla es of objects, in other words, what have been called our general ideas." Sir William Hamilton: Metaphysics, p. 262, vol. ii. ". abstract conceptions are impo ible."-Herbert Spencer (2d ed.), vol. ii., p. 525, § 487. 3. Theol . & Ch . Hist .: [IMMACULATE.]