idealism

[ Eng.ideal; -ism; Fr. idéalisme; Ger. idealism us. ] chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; ideas. "That species of idea logic composition which came least into collision with the principles of imperialism." -Chambers' Encyc. ( Ann andale .) *i-de-al-õgue, s . [Eng. ideal ; suff. -ogue , as in demagogue , .] An idealizer, a theorist, a dreamer. "Some domestic idealogue , who sits And coldly chooses empire." E. B. Browning: Aurora Leigh , viii. I'-dě-at, i-dě-ate, s . [IDEATE, v.] Philos.: The correlative or object of an idea; the real or actual existence correlating with an idea. (G. H. Lewes, in Ann andale .) *i-de-āte, v . t. [Eng.ide( a ); -ate .] 1. To form in ideas; to fancy, to imagine. "I could ideate nothing, which could please." Donne: To Sir Henry Wotton . 2. To apprehend and retain mentally. i-de-ā-tion, s. [English ide at (e); -ion.] The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas, or the exercise of such faculty. "As we say Sensation, we might say also Ideation ; it would be a very useful word." -James Mill: On the Human Mind (ed. 1869), i. 53.