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denote: (a) The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. (b) A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycolide, phthalide. (c) Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, glucoside, etc.

d; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual. Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts. Fairfax. Being the right idea of your father Both in your form and nobleness of mind. Shak. This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagin…

Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.

Destitute of an idea.

The quality or state of being ideal.

One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.

Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.

The quality or state of being ideal.

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.

The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

To form in idea; to fancy. [R.] The ideated man . . . as he stood in the intellect of God. Sir T. Browne.

The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought. The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of ideation. J. D. Morell.…

Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation. Certain sensational or ideational stimuli. Blackw. Mag.

The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

Identical. [Obs.] Hudibras.