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Intellectual [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Relating to the intellect or understanding; belonging to the mind; performed by the understanding; mental; as intellectual power or operations.

2. Ideal; perceived by the intellect; existing in the understanding; as an intellectual scene.

3. Having the power of understanding; as an intellectual being.

4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as intellectual philosophy, now sometimes called mental philosophy.

Intellectual [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The intellect or understanding. [Little used.]

Intellectual [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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.

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 [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

Intellectualism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Intellectual power; intellectuality.

2. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.

Intellectualist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who overrates the understanding.

Intellectualist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding.

2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.

Intellectuality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The state of intellectual power. [Not used.]

Intellectuality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.

Intellectualize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize.

2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.

Intellectually [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

By means of the understanding.

Intellectually [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an intellectual manner.

Intellect Roget’s Thesaurus §450

N. intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle, rationality, cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties, faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius, brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers, wit, ability, wisdom, vernunft, verstand, soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia mentis, divina particula aurae, heart's core, the absolute, psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle, brain, organ of thought, seat of thought, sensorium, sensory, head, headpiece, pate, noddle, noggin, skull, scull, pericranium, cerebrum, cranium, brainpan, sconce, upper story, central processing unit, cpu, arithmetic and logical unit, alu, metaphysics, psychics, psychology, ideology, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, philosophy of the mind, pneumatology, phrenology, craniology, cranioscopy, ideality, idealism, transcendentalism, spiritualism, immateriality, universal concept, universal conception, metaphysician, psychologist &c

V. note, notice, mark, take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of, be conscious of, realize, appreciate, ruminate, fancy

Adj. intellectual, mental, rational, subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic, spiritual, ghostly, psychical, psychological, cerebral, animastic, brainy, hyperphysical, superphysical, subconscious, subliminal, immaterial, endowed with reason

Adv. in petto

Phr. ens rationis, frons est animi janua, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, mens sola loco non exulat, "my mind is my kingdom", "stern men with empires in their brains", "the mind, the music breathing from her face", "thou living ray of intellectual fire"

Curiosity Roget’s Thesaurus §455

N. interest, thirst for knowledge, thirst for truth, curiosity, curiousness, inquiring mind, inquisitiveness, omnivorous intellect, devouring mind, inquirer, sightseer, quidnunc, newsmonger, paul pry, eavesdropper, gossip, rubberneck, intellectual, seeker, seeker after truth

V. be curious, take an interest in, stare, gape, prick up the ears, see sights, lionize, pry, nose, rubberneck*

Adj. curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious, inquiring, prying, snoopy, nosy, peering, prurient, inquisitorial, inquisitory, curious as a cat, agape

Phr. what's the matter? what next? consumed with curiosity, curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back, "curiouser and curiouser"

Sage Roget’s Thesaurus §500

N. sage, wise man, genius, master mind, master spirit of # the age, longhead, thinker, intellectual, longhair, authority, oracle, luminary, shining light, esprit fort, magnus apollo, solon, solomon, nestor, magi, "second daniel." man of learning, expert, wizard, wiseacre, bigwig, know-it-all, poor man's einstein

Adj. venerable, reverenced, emeritus

Phr. barba tenus sapientes