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/ˈɪntəlˌɛkt/ /ˈɪnəlˌɛkt/ Listen

noun

Intellect n.

(Metaph.) The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity.

A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence; as, he was a great intellect.

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Etymology of 'Intellect'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intellect" Quotes from Famous Books

... for many who believe in God have not given any time to reasoning and arguing the question; some, indeed, intellectually, could not. Others who have great powers of intellect, and who have reasoned and argued on the subject are professed disbelievers in God. Belief in God is not the result of logical arguments, else the Bible would ...

— The Great Doctrines of the Bible • Rev. William Evans

... furnishes chief spectrum lines, and of a "hot" stage when the iron has presumably been dissociated into unknown "proto-iron" constituents—then indeed does it go far beyond the comprehension of the keenest eighteenth-century intellect, though keeping within the range of understanding of the ...

— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams

... That this brain is of immense power, that it can set matter into movement, that it is malignant and destructive, I believe; some material force must have killed my dog; the same force might, for aught I know, have sufficed to kill myself, had I been as subjugated by terror as the dog—had my intellect or my spirit given me no countervailing ...

— The Best Ghost Stories • Various

... out Mr. Poyntz. "Foker, here is a considerable sum of money offered by a fair capitalist at this end of the table for the present emanations of your valuable and acute intellect, ...

— The History of Pendennis, Vol. 2 - His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy • William Makepeace Thackeray

... measuring himself, as he necessarily must, in the decline of life, with younger men in the prime of their days, who were urged by the promptings of ambition to tax every capacity of their nature, he might injure his well-earned reputation for strength of intellect, eloquence and statesmanship. But these misgivings were groundless. In the House of Representatives, as in all places where Mr. Adams was associated with others, he arose immediately to the head of his compeers. So far from suffering ...

— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward

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