dare say, take it into one’s head, take for granted; imagine &c. 515.
     put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move, make a
motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture.
     allude to, suggest, hint, put it into one’s head.
     suggest itself &c. (thought) 451; run in the head &c. (memory) 505;
marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether. 
     Adj. supposing &c. v.; given, mooted, postulatory[obs3]; assumed &c.
v.; supposititious, suppositive[obs3], suppositious; gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative; suppositional.
     suggestive, allusive. 
     Adv. if, if so be; an; on the supposition &c. n.;ex hypothesi[Lat]; in
the case, in the event of; quasi, as if, provided; perhaps &c. (by possibility) 470; for aught one knows.

—­ p. 154 —­
—­ under creative thought we should include a separate section on analogy,
metaphor, association etc. distinct from 521?? —­
     #514a.  Analogy —­ N. analogy, association, association of ideas.
     metaphor &c. 521.
     analogical thinking; free association; train of thought. 
     Adj. analogical.

     #515.  Imagination. —­ N. imagination; originality; invention; fancy;
inspiration; verve.
     warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine
imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy.
     “mind’s eye”; “such stuff as dreams are made of” [Tempest].
     ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism, castle-building.
     dreaming; phrensy[obs3], frenzy; ecstasy, extasy[obs3]; calenture &c.
(delirium) 503[obs3]; reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream; somnambulism.
     conception, Vorstellung[Ger], excogitation[obs3], “a fine frenzy”;
cloudland[obs3], dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; “thick coming fancies” [Macbeth]; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery.
     conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera;
phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey[obs3], whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest[obs3], geste[obs3], extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare.
     flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the
air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne[Fr]; Utopia, Atlantis[obs3], happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kingdom of Micomicon; work of fiction &c. (novel) 594; Arabian nights[obs3]; le pot au lait[Fr]; dream of Alnashar &c. (hope) 858[obs3].
     illusion &c. (error) 495; phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; Fata
Morgana &c. (ignis fatuus) 423[Lat]; vapor &c. (cloud) 353; stretch of the imagination &c. (exaggeration) 549; mythogenesis[obs3].