ideate
verb (used with object)
to form an idea, thought, or image of.
ideative
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a word derived from
ideate.
Example Sentences
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We seldom pursue so far into detail the ideative effort.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Alexander Philip
Attention also requires a preparation of the ideative centers in relation to the external object for which it is to be demanded: in other words, an internal, psychical "adaptation."
From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
The primary qualities, being the general laws or forms of organic Energy-transmutation, are in a higher sense ideal, for they are the necessary conditions under which both sense-presentation and ideative representation proceed.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Alexander Philip
