Sentence examples for conceived to mean from inspiring English sources

Historically, the word "witch" was conceived to mean someone who practices in petty theft, sheep stealing, and the like, but by the 16th century it came to represent women who went to bed with Satan and were hellbent on bringing down the church.

The actuator is conceived to provide mechanical means to reproduce the normal kinematics during human gait at joint level.

The numerical solution is designed as a stepwise "recipe" specifically conceived to be easily implemented by means of either a high-level programming language or even a spreadsheet tool.

England's probable absence - a more honest match than Russia v Israel it is hard to conceive - means that the experiment with The Shouty Dad Pundit will come to an end.

The move to Jamaica may partly have been conceived as a means to instil some much-needed discipline.

His dream, his yearning for commerce that regenerates life and does no harm, his intention to re-conceive what it means to be a manufacturer, to bring industry and biology together into one entity, burned in him, a flame that never seared or ceased, and it will live on in his company and thousands more.

Nor was America's participation in the alliance conceived as a means to guarantee the independence of distant lands of great significance to Moscow but virtually none to America.

This study constitutes the first double-blinded randomized trial of the efficacy of intraspinal transplants of cells derived from olfactory mucosa cell cultures (containing ∼50%p75++ olfactory ensheathing cells) in clinical spinal cord injury and was conceived as a means to address potential obstacles involved in translating a putative therapy from laboratory to clinic.

(When the translation "God so loved the world" was first conceived, "so" meant "like this". The translation used to be more accurate than it is now.

As originally conceived, it was meant to be a report from a troubled land, or homeland: Africa.

After all, "Mindgame" is patently modeled on hit plays of yesteryear like Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth" and Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," elaborately conceived suspense-generators meant to keep the audience guessing about who's who and what's what right up until the final blackout.