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   Intellectual , a. [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.]
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   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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   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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   Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
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   Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called “mental” philosophy.
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2.       
   Intellectual, n.
   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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   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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