Definition for CON-CEIT'ED

CON-CEIT'ED, pp.

  1. Conceived; imagined; fancied.
  2. participial adj. Endowed with fancy, or imagination. [Obs.] – Knolles.
  3. adj. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; having a vain or too high conception of one's own person or accomplishments; vain. If you think me too conceited, / Or to passion quickly heated. – Swift. Followed by of before the object of conceit. The Athenians were conceited of their own wit, science and politeness. – Bentley.

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