ideate

From idea +‎ -ate

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪdieɪt/

ideate (third-person singular simple present ideates, present participle ideating, simple past and past participle ideated)

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

ideate (not comparable)

1. Produced by an idea.

Late Latin ideatum. See idea.

• ideat

ideate (plural ideates)

1. (metaphysics) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

• ideate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ideate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

ideate

1. second-person plural indicative present of ideare
2. second-person plural imperative of ideare