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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IDE'ATE, v.t. To form in idea; to fancy. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" [syn: imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-ated; -ating) Date: 1610 transitive verb to form an idea or conception of intransitive verb to form an idea

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. Psychol. 1 tr. imagine, conceive. 2 intr. form ideas. Derivatives: ideation n. ideational adj. ideationally adv. Etymology: med.L ideare form an idea (as IDEA)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ideat I*de"at, Ideate I*de"ate, n. [LL. ideatum. See Idea.] (Metaph.) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ideate I*de"ate, v. t. 1. To form in idea; to fancy. [R.] The ideated man . . . as he stood in the intellect of God. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. [R.]