conceitlesst (konsetles)

[ Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitle , To be seduced by thy flattery? Shak., T. G. of V., iv. 2. conceivability (kon-se-va-bil'i-ti), n. [ con ceivable : see- bility .] Capability o of conveying a meaning; capability of being supposed with out self-contradiction or contradiction of something firmly believed; i mag in ability. It is not a question of probability, or credibility, but of conceivability. Experiment proves that the elements of these hypotheses cannot even be put together in consciousne ; and we can entertain them only as we entertain such pseud-ideas as a square fluid and a moral subH. Spencer , First Principles, § 11. stance. The test of conceivability, the a erted principle that every clear and distinct conception is true. conceivable (kon-sē'va-bl), a. [= F. concevable = Sp. concebible; as conceive + -able.] Capable of being conceived, thought, or understood; supposable; thinkable. Whereby any conceivable weight may be moved by any conceivable power. Bp. Wilkins. If those propositions only are conceivable of which subject and predicate are capable of unity of representation, then is the subjectivity of space inconceivable. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol. The inconceivable by us, but stili conceivable by others, has a much closer affinity to the conceivable by us than it has to the absolutely contradictory. Ferrier , Institutes, Int., § 69. It is conceivable that the general pattern of an organ might become so much obscured as to be finally lost. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 392. No conceivable decay of Christianity could bring back a primitive way of thinking which had been outgrown long before Christianity appeared. J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 75.