Part 5942

<hw>In"tel*lect</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>intellectus</ets>, fr. <ets>intelligere</ets>, <ets>intellectum</ets>, to understand: cf. <ets>intellect</ets>. See <er>Intelligent</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.</def>

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<hw>In"tel*lect`ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>In body, and in bristles, they became As swine, yet <b>intellected</b> as before. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>In`tel*lec"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>intellectio</ets> synecdoche: cf. F. <ets>intellection</ets>.]</ety> <def>A mental act or process; especially: <sd>(a)</sd> The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. <i>Bentley</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> A creation of the mind itself.</def>

<i>Hickok.</i>

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<hw>In`tel*lec"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>intellectif</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational.</def>

<i>Glanvill.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.</def>

<blockquote><b>Intellective</b> abstractions of logic and metaphysics. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>In`tel*lec"tive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an intellective manner.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "Not <i>intellectivelly</i> to write."

<i>Warner.</i>

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<hw>In`tel*lec"tu*al</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>intellectualis</ets>: cf. F. <ets>intellectuel</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; <as>as, <ex>intellectual</ex> powers, activities, etc.</as></def>

<blockquote>Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or <b>intellectual</b> powers. <i>I. Watts.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; <as>as, an <ex>intellectual</ex> person</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Who would lose, Though full of pain, this <b>intellectual</b> being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity? <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; <as>as, <ex>intellectual</ex> employments</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; <as>as, <ex>intellectual</ex> philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy</as>.</def>

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<hw>In`tel*lec"tu*al</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.</def>

<blockquote>Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher <b>intellectual</b> more I shun. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>