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Intellectual In`tel*lec"tu*al (?; 135), 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]

Intellectual In`tel*lec"tu*al, 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]


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intellectual [int?lekt?e?l] intellectuel
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intellectuel
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intellectual [int?lekt?e?l] geistig, intelektuell, Intellektuelle
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intellectual curiosity [int?lekt?e?lkje?ri?siti?] Wissbegierde
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intellectual history [int?lekt?e?lhistri?] Geistesgeschichte
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intellectual power [int?lekt?e?lpau?r] Denkvermögen
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