con·ceit /kənˈsit/
自負,空想,狂妄
Con·ceit, v. i. To form an idea; to think. [Obs.]
Those whose . . . vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes. --Milton.
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Con·ceit v. t. To conceive; to imagine. [Archaic]
The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so. --South.
One of two bad ways you must conceit me,
Either a coward or a flatterer. --Shak.
Con·ceit n.
1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.
In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. --Bacon.
A man wise in his own conceit. --Prov. xxvi. 12.
2. Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit. [Obs.]
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. --Sir P. Sidney.
3. Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet. --Shak.
4. A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.
On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. --L'Estrange.
Some to conceit alone their works confine,
And glittering thoughts struck out at every line. --Pope.
Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature. --Dryden.
5. An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.
Plumed with conceit he calls aloud. --Cotton.
6. Design; pattern. [Obs.]
In conceit with, in accord with; agreeing or conforming.
Out of conceit with, not having a favorable opinion of; not pleased with; as, a man is out of conceit with his dress.
To put [one] out of conceit with, to make one indifferent to a thing, or in a degree displeased with it.
conceit
n 1: feelings of excessive pride [syn: amour propre, self-love,
vanity]
2: the trait of being vain and conceited [syn: vanity]