idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus[obs3]; romancer, dreamer;
somnambulist; rhapsodist &c. (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful projector. 
     V. imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream
up; “give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name” [Midsummer Night’s Dream].
     create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise, strike
out something new.
     set one’s wits to work; strain one’s invention, crack one’s invention;
rack one’s brains, ransack one’s brains, cudgel one’s brains; excogitate[obs3]; brainstorm.
     give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give
fancy; indulge in reverie.
     visualize, envision, conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, represent
oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen[Ger].
     float in the mind; suggest itself &c. (thought) 451. 
     Adj. imagined &c. v.; ben trovato[It]; air drawn, airbuilt[obs3].
     imagining &cv. v, imaginative; original, inventive, creative, fertile.
     romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic,
unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic.
     ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus[Lat]; unsubsantial[obs3] &c.
4; illusory &c. (fallacious) 495.
     fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical;
imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical[obs3]; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic[obs3]. 
     Phr. “a change came o’er the spirit of my dream” [Byron]; aegri somnia
vana[Lat][obs3]; dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum [obs3][Latin][Horace]; “fancy light from fancy caught” [Tennyson]; “imagination rules the world” [Napoleon]; l’imagination gallope[Fr], le jugement ne va que le pas[French]; musaeo contingens cuncta lepore [Latin][Lucretius]; tous songes sont mensonges[French]; Wahrheil und Dichtung[German].

% DIVISION (II) COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS

SECTION I. NATURE OF IDEAS COMMUNICATED.
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     #516. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning. [Thing signified.] —­ N.
meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.
     [important part of the meaning] substance; gist, essence, marrow,
spirit &c. 5.
     matter; subject, subject matter; argument, text, sum and substance.
     general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial
meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true &c. (exact) 494 meaning, honest &c. 543 meaning, prima facie &c. (manifest) 525 meaning[Lat]; letter of the law.
     literally; after acceptation.
     synonym; implication, allusion &c. (latency) 526; suggestion &c.
(information) 527; figure of speech &c. 521; acceptation &c. (interpretation) 522. 
     V. mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply, breathe,