Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ideate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ideate
v : 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}, {envisage}]
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