1. [transitive] ideate something to form an idea of something; to imagine something

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2. [intransitive] to form ideas; to think
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from medieval Latin ideat- ‘formed as an idea’, from the verb ideare, via Latin from Greek idea ‘form, pattern’, from the base of idein ‘to see’.

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