The young ladies, who thought themselves too much concerned to contain themselves any longer, set up their throats all together against my protector. ‘Scurvy companion! saucy tarpaulin! rude, impertinent fellow! did he think to prescribe to grandpapa!’—Smollett, Roderick Random, vol. i. c. 3.
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‘Conceit’ is so entirely and irrecoverably lost to the language of philosophy, that it would be well if ‘concept,’ used often by our earlier philosophical writers, were revived.[13] Yet ‘conceit’ has not so totally forsaken all its former meanings (for there are still ‘happy conceits’ in poetry), as have ‘conceited,’ which once meant well conceived, and ‘conceitedly.’
Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyn
Which had on it conceited characters.
Shakespeare, A Lover’s Complaint.
Triumphal arches the glad town doth raise,
And tilts and tourneys are performed at court,
Conceited masques, rich banquets, witty plays.
Drayton, The Miseries of Queen Margaret.