conceit
(obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
It was after a night like this that I shocked the community with a queer conceit about the burial of the rich and celebrated Squire Brewster […]
The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
(obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
(now rare, dialectal) Esteem, favorable opinion.
A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
(rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
Design; pattern.
(obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
(obsolete) To conceive.
That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.
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