conˈceptionist
[f. conception + -ist.]
1. One who deals with or limits himself to conceptions.
| a 1834 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) III. 32 An ample and most ordonnant conceptionist, to the tranquil empyrean of ideas he had not ascended. |
2. A member of the R.C. order of the Conception: also attrib.
| 1800 Archæol. XIII. 270 Conceptionist Nuns in Paris. 1857 E. Oliver in Coll. Cath. Relig. 282 This new order of the Conceptionists, founded by Monseigneur Eugène Mazenod. |