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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intellectual \In`tel*lec"tu*al\, n. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intellectual \In`tel*lec"tu*al\ (?; 135), a. [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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: intellectual adj 1: of or relating to the intellect; "his intellectual career" 2: associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" [syn: {rational}] 3: appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature" [ant: {nonintellectual}] 4: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" [syn: {cerebral}] [ant: {emotional}] n : a person who uses the mind creatively [syn: {intellect}]
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