Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or having the nature of a conception or notion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to conception.
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- adjective Of or relating to
conception . - adjective Relating to a
concept ,idea , orthought . (More often,conceptual .)
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- adjective being of the nature of a notion or concept
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Examples
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The "conceptional" theory refers the origin of totemism to the belief, found among certain peoples, that conception is produced by the entrance into the mother's womb of some object (animal, plant, or other) with which the child is identified. [
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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Carolina-educated professional with outstanding conceptional abilities as well as excellent managerial skills in the field of Business
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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These temporal positions can be validly labeled conceptually with fixed totally conceptional categories as “not-yet-happening,” “presently-happening,” or “no-longer-happening” by a person labeling them as such, relative to his or her position while passing along this non-externally established, but nevertheless existent axis.
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In other words, in the conceptual cognition of “the year 2008,” “the year 2008” is the basis of imputation (gdags-gzhi) for such existent totally conceptional phenomena as “the categories not-yet-happening, presently-happening, and no-longer - happening.”
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“The year 2008” is the basis on which the totally conceptional “categorynot-yet-happening” can be imputed in the conceptual cognition of the year 2008 as being in the category of “not-yet-happening.”
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Because of that, “the year 2008” can function as a basis for being labeled with any of the three totally conceptional categories not-yet-happening, presently-happening, or no-longer-happening.
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Similar to the Gelug Sautrantika view, the existence of the dependent phenomenon the year 2008 and of the totally conceptional phenomena the categories “not-yet-happening” and so forth as validly knowable phenomena is established by their own self-natures, from their own sides.
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Existent totally conceptional phenomena can be validly cognized only conceptually.
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Thus, in the conceptual cognition of “the year 2008” on which is imputed, for instance, “the category not-yet-happening,” although the existent totally conceptional category is the appearing object (snang-yul) that is directly before the mental consciousness as part of the essential nature of that conceptual cognition, the “year 2008” is what appears (snang-ba) through it.
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In contrast, the existence, in general, of the totally conceptional phenomenon the category “not-yet-happening” is not established by this individual defining characteristic mark.
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