conceit

Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.

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

a man wise in his own conceit

The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.

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.

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

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

Opinion, (neutral) judgment.

Esteem, favourable opinion.

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.

To form an idea; to think.

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

To conceive.

[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.