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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To form an idea of; imagine or conceive: "Such characters represent a grotesquely blown-up aspect of an ideal man . . . if not realizable, capable of being ideated” ( Anthony Burgess).
  2. v. To conceive mental images; think.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. . To form in idea or thought; fancy.
  2. To apprehend mentally so as to retain and be able to recall; fix permanently in the mind.
  3. To form ideas; think.
  4. In metaphysics, produced by an idea, specifically by a Platonic idea; existing by virtue of its participation in an idea.
  5. n. In metaphysics, the correlative or object of an idea; the real or actual existence correlating with an idea.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.
  2. v. To generate an idea.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. rare To form in idea; to fancy.
  2. v. rare To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

Etymologies

  1. From idea +‎ -ate (Wiktionary)

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synonyms (3)

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  1. fancy
  1. memorize
  1. conceiv

hypernyms (2)

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  1. create by mental act
  1. create mentally

hyponyms (19)

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  1. fancy
  2. visualize
  3. fantasise
  1. fantasy
  2. woolgather
  3. figure
  1. daydream
  2. foresee
  3. visualise
  1. prefigure
  2. think
  3. dream
  1. image
  2. fantasize
  3. picture
  1. project
  2. see
  3. envision
  1. stargaze

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  • zeke @ecbrenner me too Feb 17, 2011

  • ecbrenner Honestly, until I looked it up I thought this was a horrible made-up marketing term. Apr 7, 2009

  • trivet Webster 1913:
    To form in idea; to fancy.
    To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.

    Jul 7, 2007

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