conceit

“In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.”

“a man wise in his own conceit”

“a man of quick conceit”

“How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.”

“His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.”

“By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte.”

“[G]ive him thy thanks for putting her into conceit with the sex that thou hast given her so much reason to execrate.”

“On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit.”

“Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glitt'ring thoughts struck out at ev'ry line.”

“The “cyberspace” conceit allows him to dramatize computer hacking in nontechnical language, although I wonder how much his somewhat florid descriptions of the “bodiless exultation of cyberspace” will mean to readers who have not experienced the illusion of power that punching the keyboard of even a dinky little word-processor can give.”

“In the next and final stanza, Donne expands the conceit of world exploration to present us with a further distinction between the spirituality of the lovers and the “map reader” and “sea-discoverers.””

“Plum'd with conceit he calls aloud.”

“And yet I know not how conceit may rob the treasury of life when life itself yields to the theft;”

“Those whose […] vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.”

“[T]his Medicine he conceits worse than the Disesase.”

“That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.”