n. [ L. intellectus, fr. intelligere, intellectum, to understand: cf. intellect. See Intelligent. ] 1. (Metaph.) The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity. [ PJC ]

3. A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence; as, he was a great intellect. [ PJC ]

a. Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In body, and in bristles, they became
As swine, yet intellected as before. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intellectio synecdoche: cf. F. intellection. ] A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. Hickok. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. intellectif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses. [ 1913 Webster ]

Intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intellective manner. [ R. ] “Not intellectivelly to write.” Warner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,
Whose higher intellectual more I shun. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A learned person or one of high intelligence; especially, one who places greatest value on activities requiring exercise of the intelligence, such as study, complex forms of knowledge, literature and aesthetic matters, reflection and philosophical speculation; a member of the intelligentsia; as, intellectuals are often apalled at the inanities that pass for entertainment on television. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called “mental” philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Intellectual power; intellectuality. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Preference for activities involving exercise of the intellect; sometimes, an excessive emphasis on abstract or intellectual matters with deprecation of the value of feelings. [ PJC ]

n. 1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intellectualitas: cf. F. intellectualité. ] Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intellectual manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia. See Intelligent. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. [ 1913 Webster ]

And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Information communicated; news; notice; advice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Intelligence is given where you are hid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information. Specifically; (Mil.) Information about an enemy or potential enemy, his capacities, and intentions. [ 1913 Webster ]

I write as he that none intelligence
Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence. Court of Love. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great Intelligences fair
That range above our mortal state,
In circle round the blessed gate,
Received and gave him welcome there. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mil.) The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy. [ PJC ]

Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.

Syn. -- Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Informing; giving information; talebearing. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That sad intelligencing tyrant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intelligence. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intelligens, intellegens, -entis, p. pr. of intelligere, intellegere, to perceive; inter between + legere to gather, collect, choose: cf. F. intelligent. See Legend. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Possessed of a high level of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; exhibiting high intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cognizant; aware; communicative. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Intelligent of seasons. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which are to France the spies and speculations
Intelligent of our state. Shak.

Syn. -- Sensible; understanding. See Sensible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. intelligentiel. ] [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. “With act intelligential.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Food alike those pure
Intelligential substances require. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gives information; an intelligencer. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intelligent manner; with intelligence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an educated and intellectual{ 2 } elite; intellectuals, collectively or considered as a class. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

[ Cf. F. intelligilibilité. ] The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. intellegibilis: cf. F. intelligible. See Intelligent. ] Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The intelligible forms of ancient poets. Coleridge.

Syn. -- Comprehensible; perspicuous; plain; clear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.

n. [ OF. lintel, F. linteau, LL. lintellus, for limitellus, a dim. fr. L. limes limit. See Limit. ] (Arch.) A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Wrong information; misinformation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disagreement; misunderstanding. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not intellectual. Opposite of intellectual. [ Narrower terms: anti-intellectual, philistine; lowbrow, uncultivated ] Also See unscholarly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Point. Cf. Pointal. ] See Pointal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Quintain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being above intellect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

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