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In`tel*lec"tu*al (?; 135), a. [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.]
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1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
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Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts.
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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.
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Who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity? Milton.
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3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
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4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called “mental” philosophy.
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In`tel*lec"tu*al, n. 1. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
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Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,
Whose higher intellectual more I shun. Milton.
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I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey.
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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.
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