conceitとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Formed from conceive by analogy with deceive/deceit, receive/receipt etc.

発音

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsiːt/
• 韻: -iːt

名詞

conceit (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 conceits)

1. (obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. [14th–18th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

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

   • 1611, King James Version, Proverbs xxvi. 12

     a man wise in his own conceit

   • 1922, H. P. Lovecraft, “The Tomb”, in The Vagrant:

     It was after a night like this that I shocked the community with a queer conceit about the burial of the rich and celebrated Squire Brewster […]

2. The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.

   a man of quick conceit

   • c. 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

     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.

3. Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
   • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv]:

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

4. (obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment. [14th–18th c.]
5. (now まれに, dialectal) Esteem, favourable opinion. [from 15th c.]
   • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

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

6. (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. [from 16th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote by L'Estrange かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

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

   • 1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: Printed for W. Lewis […], published 1711, OCLC 15810849:

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

   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Tasso is full of conceits […] which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.

   • 2012, Lauren Elkin, ‎Scott Esposito, The End of Oulipo?: An attempt to exhaust a movement

     The book's main conceit is to make poetry from univocal words (words containing just one vowel) […]

8. (countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. [from 16th c.]
   • 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Jones and Palin wrote and starred in The Complete and Utter History of Britain (1969) for LWT. Its conceit was to relate historical incidents as if TV had existed at the time.

9. (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. [from 17th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote by Cotton かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.

10. Design; pattern.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene vi]:

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

派生語

動詞

conceit (三人称単数 現在形 conceits, 現在分詞 conceiting, 過去形および過去分詞形 conceited)

1. (obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
   • 1643: John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

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

2. (obsolete, transitive) To conceive.
   • (Can we date this quote by South かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive […] as if they really were so.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:

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

Further reading

• conceit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• conceit in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• conceit at OneLook Dictionary Search