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The act or process of idealizing.

To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.

An idealist.

In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.

Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.

One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

To intrigue. [Obs.] Daniel.

To deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution.

Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience. Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar. -- Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in trials for witchcraft. -- Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar (Tanghinia, or Cerbera, ven…

The excess. [Obs.] The overdeal in the price will be double. Holland.

Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak.

In some degree; somewhat. [Written also sumdel, sumdeale, and sumdele.] [Obs.] "She was somedeal deaf." Chaucer. Thou lackest somedeal their delight. Spenser.

Thyroid.

Crafty, unfair, or underhand dealing; unfair practice; trickery. Milton.

Not ideal; real; unimaginative.

Same as Ordeal by water. See the Note under Ordeal, n., 1.

ated from matter; exiting in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult.

Separated from matter; abstract; ideal. [Obs.]

An idealist. Emerson.

usive language; virulent condemnation; reviling. The two parties, after exchanging a good deal of abuse, came to blows. Macaulay.