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Intellectual

Intellectual (intellectual)
a.(?; 135)
In`tel*lec"tu*al
[L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.]

  1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

    Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts.

  2. 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, an intellectual person.

    Who would lose,
    Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
    Those thoughts that wander through eternity?
    Milton.

  3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
  4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.

Intellectual

Intellectual (intellectual)
n.
In`tel*lec"tu*al
  1. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

    Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,
    Whose higher intellectual more I shun.
    Milton.

    I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey.














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