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And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, ‘Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'
(rhetoric,literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
2006, A. J. Smith, Metaphysical Wit, page 20:
Conceited wit showed its character towards the end of the fifteenth century in the work of poets who made it their aim to exercise their hearers' minds with cleaver plays of metaphor and ingenious reasoning.
c.1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], Romeo and Juliet. (First Quarto), London: Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
AN EXCELLENT conceited Tragedie OF Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely
1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes,, London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:
He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
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