| • | The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that
   is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever,
   whether sensible or spiritual. | 
											
															| • | A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or
   controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development. | 
											
															| • | A plan or purpose of action; intention; design. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | 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. |