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 ]

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 ]

n. 1. Intellectual power; intellectuality. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Preference for activities involving exercise of the intellect; sometimes, an excessive emphasis on abstract or intellectual matters with deprecation of the value of feelings. [ PJC ]

n. 1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intellectualitas: cf. F. intellectualité. ] Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an intellectual manner. [ 1913 Webster ]