Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In medicine, confining to the bed: as, a lectual disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Confining to the bed.
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Examples
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"Intel has serious questions about this transaction as it relates to the license, and will vigorously protect Intel's intellectual-property rights," said Chuck Mulloy, an Intel spokesman.
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And Peg was, I think, in such mood as to couple with him on the spot, had I not been present and had not his faculties been directed elsewhere than toward the lectual.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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It is the Warren Commission's actions which are the key to the intel - lectual authorship of the assassination.
Europe 1992: BackTrail of The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr 1988
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And Peg was, I think, in such mood as to couple with him on the spot, had I not been present and had not his faculties been directed elsewhere than toward the lectual.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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We kept silent, I think, because we were in the pres - ence of our betters, men who had either wide experience like Dr Franklin or profound intel - lectual insights like Madison and Wilson.
Legacy Michener, James 1987
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Both the spring idyll in Virginia and the intel - lectual uncertainty, about the forthcoming war vanished when shocking word reached the Starr plantation: 'President Lincoln offered Colonel Lee command of all Federal forces, and Lee refused.
Legacy Michener, James 1987
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That pretense demands more empathy with the problems of another "intel-lectual."
Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985
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Chinese encouragement, began an international cam - paign against Revisionism, which would have the effects of ensuring the bloc against disintegration from the virus of Titoism, and also stabilizing those régimes which were under pressure from Westernizing intel - lectual dissidents in the Party ranks.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas R. K. KINDERSLEY 1968
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In Italy, as in Russia, there was an important intel - lectual Marxist movement, headed by Antonio Labriola and an equally powerful movement of criticism of
Dictionary of the History of Ideas R. K. KINDERSLEY 1968
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Review gave generous hospitality to essays by Harrison and other positivists and himself praised Comte's intel - lectual achievement, but would have nothing to do with the Religion of Humanity.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas WALTER SIMON 1968
whichbe commented on the word lectual
Necessitating confinement to bed. (Luciferous Logolepsy)
May 16, 2008