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preconceive (iou)



preconceive verb trans. M16.
[from PRE- 1 + CONCEIVE.]
Conceive or imagine beforehand; form (an idea about something) in anticipation of one's actual knowledge or experience. Freq. as preconceived ppl adjective.
N. Hawthorne The Coliseum was very much what I had preconceived it. R. G. Collingwood The result..is preconceived or thought out before being arrived at. P. Larkin We came to our work without any preconceived ideas.