Definition for PRE-CON-CEIVE'

PRE-CON-CEIVE', v.t. [L. præ, before, and concipio, to conceive.]

To form a conception or opinion beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea. In a dead plain, the way seems the longer, because the eye has preconceived it shorter than the truth. – Bacon.

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