ideate

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: i=de=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

ideate, n. [LL. ideatum. See Idea.].

 The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.  [1913 Webster]

ideate, v. t. 

•  To form in idea; to fancy.  [1913 Webster]

  "The ideated man . . . as he stood in the intellect of God."  [1913 Webster]
•  To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ideate, v. Psychol.
1 tr. imagine, conceive.
2 intr. form ideas.

Derivative

ideation n. ideational adj. ideationally adv.

Etymology

med.L ideare form an idea (as IDEA)