Cŏn'cept, n.

n. [Lat. conceptum, neut. p. p. of concipere, to conceive, q. v.]

1. A set form. [Obs.] Scott.
2. An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination, as the thought suggested by a general term. Hamilton.