'Ideate' definitions:
Definition of 'ideate'
(from WordNet)
verb
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]
Definition of 'Ideate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ideate'
From: GCIDE
- Ideate \I*de"ate\, v. t.
- 1. To form in idea; to fancy. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- The ideated man . . . as he stood in the intellect of God. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. [R.] [1913 Webster]