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   Intellectual (?; 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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   Intellectual, 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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