conceiting

We are always looking toward the future, talking about the future, "conceiting" for the future, as the Irish say.

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

Waverley was naturally modest, and therefore did not fall into the egregious mistake of supposing such minuter rules of military duty beneath his notice, or conceiting himself to be born a general, because he made an indifferent subaltern.

Waverley 2004

Light and warmth and comfort and safety -- they were all to come from the conceiting and the struggling of my Dour Man, fighting for an empty-headed family who were scarcely worth it.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

This afternoon, tired of scheming and conceiting for the future, I had

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

'Afther that I sickened awhile an' tuk thought to my reg'mental work; conceiting mesilf I wud study an 'be a sergint, an' a major-gineral twinty minutes afther that.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

'Afther that I sickened awhile an' tuk thought to my reg'mental work; conceiting mesilf I wud study an 'be a sargint, an' a major-gineral twinty minutes afther that.

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

Waverley was naturally modest, and therefore did not fall into the egregious mistake of supposing such minuter rules of military duty beneath his notice, or conceiting himself to be born a general, because he made an indifferent subaltern.

The Waverley 1877

"There is absurdity," said Pope, "in man's conceiting himself the final cause of creation."

The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829

For the weak, by thinking themselves strong, are induced to venture and proclaim war against that which ruins them: and the strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are thereby rendered as unactive, and consequently as useless, as if they really were so.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823

I laugh at his ridiculous presumption in conceiting that

The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822