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Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.

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.…

One who overrates the importance of the understanding. [R.] Bacon.

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton.

Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. [Obs.] Spenser.

The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument.

accounts, plots, etc. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. Addison. The nature of man is intricate. Burke.

Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse. Heal the inveterate canker of one wound. Shak.

Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.

n figures are kept at the same height from the ground, whether the personages are seated, standing, or mounted on horseback; -- called also isokephaleia.

Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain.

Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence. G. West.

f mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features. To make our wits more keen. Shak. Before the keen inquiry of her thought. Cowper.

Sunk to the knees; as, men knee-deep in water. Where knee-deep the trees were standing. Longfellow.

One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.

or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something. "Learn to do well." Is. i. 17. Now learn a parable of the fig tree. Matt…