(v. t.) To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to these results the implementation of good care preconceives that the conceptions of professions must be broaden.
(2) It also preconceives that different health professional groups together engage themselves to patient-centered goals.
Preconceived
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Preconceive
Example Sentences:
(1) There are several preconceived notions among members of the nursing profession about hospice care.
(2) The term "Multiple therapy" is used to describe the combined use of more than one therapist for one patient following a preconceived plan (German: "Komplementärtherapie").
(3) The methodological problems in applying this approach, however, may lead to foisting upon clinical observation preconceived paradigms of pathogenesis.
(4) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
(5) Despite all this, its unusual toxicity and the many preconceived notions about Se continue to confuse attitudes toward the safe uses of selenicals.
(6) "You can see how some members of the jury can come along with preconceived ideas.
(7) They think what they think of her.” One significant way for Clinton to overcome such preconceived notions, Zelizer said, would be to sell voters on what her presidency would represent: a historic breakthrough as the first woman to become president of the US.
(8) Children's testimony can be influenced by an overly authoritative or ingratiating attorney stance, an attorney's preconceived notions, age-inappropriate questions, and the child's limited attention span.
(9) Further studies using other genetic markers are in order, as well as changing certain preconceived notions on blood groups of American Indians.
(10) The authors postulate that nurse training and attitudes lead to a narrow focus; avoiding preconceived concepts is necessary for preventing OBPN.
(11) Extensive searches which are not limited to a preconceived consensus sequence are carried out.
(12) We thought you would let us show you how our school met all the criteria you had outlined in your framework but instead you found what you needed to back up your preconceived idea.
(13) I lived in such a melting pot that I never grew up with a preconceived notion of ‘people’.
(14) Robinson said he had "no preconceived notion of guilt or innocence" about Bergdahl.
(15) We all have our preconceived ideas of how things should be, will be and need to be.
(16) Only with a preconceived and coordinated plan can the surgeon fully employ the necessary skills in the management of these serious injuries.
(17) He said "we would never select or manipulate data in order to arrive at some preconceived or unrepresentative result".
(18) The report echoed Kabureka's assessment that the move by established banks to turn away remittance companies were "guided more by preconceived notions of risk than by actual risk".
(19) Cage is methodical in rebutting preconceived notions about himself.
(20) The new stem is easy to apply and makes it possible to regulate anteversion precisely, and above all, to satisfy the preconceived biomechanical requirements.