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<blockquote>This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence [the senses] to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its <b>idea</b>. <i>P. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.</def>

<blockquote>Alice had not the slightest <b>idea</b> what latitude was. <i>L. Caroll.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.</def>

<blockquote>Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding, that I call <b>idea</b>. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; <as>as, an essential <ex>idea</ex>; the <ex>idea</ex> of development.</as></def>

<blockquote>That fellow seems to me to possess but one <b>idea</b>, and that is a wrong one. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>What is now "<b>idea</b>" for us? How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly-created world, - "how it showed . . . Answering his great <b>idea</b>," - to its present use, when this person "has an <b>idea</b> that the train has started," and the other "had no <b>idea</b> that the dinner would be so bad!" <i>Trench.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.</def>

<blockquote>I shortly afterwards set off for that capital, with an <b>idea</b> of undertaking while there the translation of the work. <i>W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.</def>

<blockquote>Thence to behold this new-created world, The addition of his empire, how it showed In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair, Answering his great <b>idea</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; "In England, Locke may be said to have been the first who naturalized the term in its Cartesian universality. When, in common language, employed by Milton and Dryden, after Descartes, as before him by Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Hooker, etc., the meaning is Platonic."</note>

<i>Sir W. Hamilton.</i>

<cs><mcol><col>Abstract idea</col>, <col>Association of ideas</col></mcol>, <cd>etc. See under <er>Abstract</er>, <er>Association</er>, etc.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Notion; conception; thought; sentiment; fancy; image; perception; impression; opinion; belief; observation; judgment; consideration; view; design; intention; purpose; plan; model; pattern. There is scarcely any other word which is subjected to such abusive treatment as is the word <i>idea</i>, in the very general and indiscriminative way in which it is employed, as it is used variously to signify almost any act, state, or content of thought.</syn>

<h1>Ideal</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I*de"al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>idealis</ets>: cf. F. <ets>id\'82al</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; <as>as, <ex>ideal</ex> knowledge</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; <as>as, <ex>ideal</ex> beauty</as>.</def>

<i>Byron.</i>

<blockquote>There will always be a wide interval between practical and <b>ideal</b> excellence. <i>Rambler.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.</def> "Planning <i>ideal</i> common wealth."

<i>Southey.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Teaching the doctrine of idealism; <as>as, the <ex>ideal</ex> theory or philosophy</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>Imaginary.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful; imaginary; unreal; impracticable; utopian.</syn>

<h1>Ideal</h1> <Xpage=725>