verb/kɔ̃.sə.vwaʁ/
to conceive:; to design
“Ne regardons donc plus comme des principes absolus des faits n’ayant jamais existé que dans l’imagination de ceux qui les ont conçus[…]” — Let us therefore no longer consider as absolute principles facts which have never existed, save in the imagination of those who conceived them […]
Inherited from Old French concevoir, from Vulgar Latin *concipēre, from Latin concipere.