Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or generated by the intellect.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the intellect; having power to understand, know, or comprehend.
- Produced by the understanding.
- Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.
- Intellectual; intelligent.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, related to, or caused by the intellect.
- adj. Having the capacity to reason and understand.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.
- adj. Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational.
- adj. Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.
Etymologies
- From the Middle French intellectif and its etymon the post-Classical Latin intellēctīvus, from intellegō. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Obj. 3: Further, if the vice of curiosity can be about any kind of intellective knowledge, it would be chiefly about the philosophical sciences.”
“Shivani: You always make a distinction between the intellectual and the intellective.”
“Shivani: Was Allen Ginsberg intellectual or intellective?”
“And it is the intellect (and accompanying intellective appetite, volition) that makes us human.”
“The distinction between a simple living being and a spiritual being that is 'capax Dei', points to the existence of the intellective soul of a free transcendent subject".”
“The distinction between a simple living being and a spiritual being that is capax Dei, points to the existence of the intellective soul of a free transcendent subject.”
““Non-intellective” factors — like motivation and social skills — probably matter more.”
“A finer sense of things is occasioned by Bishop Kallistos Ware's depiction of the nous as "the intellective aptitude of the heart.”
The Huffington Post: Scott Cairns: Lost Christian Language For Repairing The Person
“And that is the primal imaginative-intellective act which created words in the first place: as sound equivalents, or signs, for real observed phenomena (physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual …)”
Writing and Failure (Part 7) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
“Of course the intellective act is also reproductive, it does establish a mirror of external reality (the meaning of ens reale for Dietrich).”
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