INTELLECTUALLY

intellectually

(adverb) in an intellectual manner; “intellectually gifted children”; “intellectually influenced”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

intellectually (comparative more intellectually, superlative most intellectually)

In an intellectual manner.

Source: Wiktionary


In`tel*lec"tu*al*ly, adv.

Definition: In an intellectual manner.

INTELLECTUAL

In`tel*lec"tu*al, a. Etym: [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.]

1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts.

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. Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity Milton.

3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.

4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.

In`tel*lec"tu*al, n.

Definition: The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties. Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher intellectual more I shun. Milton. I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. De Quincey.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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