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- Ideal - a. - Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
- Ideal - a. - Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
- Ideal - a. - Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
- Ideal - a. - Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
- Ideal - a. - Imaginary.
- Ideal - n. - A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
- Idealess - a. - Destitute of an idea.
- Idealism - n. - The quality or state of being ideal.
- Idealism - n. - Conception of the ideal; imagery.
- Idealism - n. - The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.
- Idealist - n. - One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.
- Idealist - n. - One who holds the doctrine of idealism.
- Idealistic - a. - Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
- Idealities - pl. - of Ideality
- Ideality - n. - The quality or state of being ideal.
- Ideality - n. - The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
- Ideality - n. - The conceptive faculty.
- Idealization - n. - The act or process of idealizing.
- Idealization - n. - The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
- Idealize - v. t. - To make ideal; to give an ideal form or value to; to attribute ideal characteristics and excellences to; as, to idealize real life.
- Idealize - v. t. - To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2.
- Idealize - v. i. - To form ideals.
- Idealized - imp. & p. p. - of Idealize
- Idealizer - n. - An idealist.
- Idealizing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Idealize
- Fanciful - a. - Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory.
- Sphere - n. - The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
- Somite - n. - One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere.
- Practical - a. - Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
- Progress - n. - Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.
- Plane - a. - An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
- Radius vector - n. - An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite.
- Transfigure - v. t. - Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to.
- Picture - v. t. - To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
- Quixotism - n. - That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry.
- Perfection - n. - A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
- Mechanism - n. - An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.
- Ivan Ivanovitch - - An ideal personification of the typical Russian or of the Russian people; -- used as "John Bull" is used for the typical Englishman.
- Ideal - a. - Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
- Type - n. - A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group. Also, a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group.
- Halo - n. - An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.
- Entity - n. - A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.
- Picturesque - a. - Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
- Idealize - v. t. - To treat in an ideal manner. See Idealization, 2.
- Theocrasy - n. - An intimate union of the soul with God in contemplation, -- an ideal of the Neoplatonists and of some Oriental mystics.
- Phantom - n. - That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.
- Utopia - n. - Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.
- Ideally - adv. - In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.
- Gastrula - n. - An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea.
- Exemplar - n. - A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.