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To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. "A man that waketh of his sleep." Chaucer. O sleep, thou ape of death. Shak.

A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.

s cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself. Locke. The source of Newton's light, of Bacon's sense. Pope.

To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will. Thine eye begins to speak. Shak. To speak of, to take account of, to make mention of. Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To speak out, to speak loudly and distinctly; also, to speak unreservedly. -- To speak well for, to…

ulty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent. Dryden.

he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.

Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.

will stick long at part of a demonstration for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas. Locke. Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will. Arbuthnot.

surface or threshold of consciousness; that is, existing as feeling rather than as clear ideas.

to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke.

The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.

rce away, in order to get a substitute in place of. You never will supplant the received ideas of God. Landor.

To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.

tize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine and architecture were systematized into arts. Harris.

by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.

y to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.

ts, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.

tions thereof. The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day. Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. Reid.