IDEATION • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Ideation

... Imperial court to a group of foreigners in Tokyo. The interpreter would listen for several minutes and then in the pause of the speaker put the fragment into English for us, without a colour of his own, without disturbing even a gesture or an intonation of the source of eloquence and ideation. Something of the same returned to me from the boy's work. I tried him again on the plan a few days later—just to be sure. ...

— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort