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Conation
- - The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
Conative
- - Of or pertaining to conation.
Conceits
- noun - a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"
- an artistic device or effect; "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"
- an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
- feelings of excessive pride
- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
Conceive
- verb - become pregnant; undergo conception; "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"
- have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived"
- judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
Conchite
- - A fossil or petrified conch or shell.
Conduits
- noun - a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; "the computers were connected through a system of conduits"
Conelike
- adjective - relating to or resembling a cone; "conical mountains"; "conelike fruit"
Conflict
- noun - a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
- a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; "his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post"; "a conflict of loyalties"
- an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings"
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"
- be in conflict; "The two proposals conflict!"
- go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afoul of