Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the intelligence; relating to or capable of understanding; intellectual.
- Consisting of intelligence or concrete mind.
- Intelligent.
- Conveying intelligence; serving to transmit information.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual.
- adjective Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
intelligence
Etymologies
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Examples
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Re: Editorial, headlined "Before threats become deeds" - the "intelligential" overview of the current political debate.
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Re: Editorial, headlined "Before threats become deeds" - the "intelligential" overview of the current political debate.
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Yet the eager pursuit of the good which every one shapes to his own fancy, proclaims man the lord of this lower world, and to be an intelligential creature, who is not to receive, but acquire happiness.
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In the drawing-room, Auntie awaited them: a large, matronly-looking spinster, with a heavy face and frame, a non-intelligential gaze from dull brown eyes.
A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann
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In the objects of nature are presented, as in a mirror, all the possible elements, steps, and processes of intellect antecedent to consciousness, and therefore to the full development of the intelligential act; and mans mind is the very focus of all the rays of intellect which are scattered throughout the images of nature.
On Poesy or Art 1909
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Yet the eager pursuit of the good which every one shapes to his own fancy, proclaims man the lord of this lower world, and to be an intelligential creature, who is not to receive, but acquire happiness.
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In the line of light bringers who pass from hand to hand the torch of intelligential fire, there are men of most unequal stature, and a giant may stoop to take the precious flambeau from a dwarf.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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I believe that even the new-born infant is, in some of his moods, already grappling with the deepest metaphysical problems, in forms infinitely too rudimental for the understanding of the grown philosopher -- as far, in fact, removed from his ken on the one side, that of intelligential beginning, the germinal subjective, as his abstrusest speculations are from the final solutions of absolute entity on the other.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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But many, on the other hand, die of _intelligential_ diseases, as they may be called; of maladies seated in the brain or in that nervous system which acts as a kind of purveyor of thought fuel -- and these die wholly, body and spirit are darkened together.
Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Doubtless the most convenient form of appropriating the terms would be to consider the understanding as man's intelligential faculty, whatever be its object, the sensible or the intelligible world; while reason is the tri-unity, as it were, of the spiritual eye, light, and object.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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