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Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities. [R.] In body, and in bristles, they became As swine, yet intellected as before. Cowper.

A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. Hickok.

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

In an intellective manner. [R.] "Not intellectivelly to write." Warner.

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.

Intellectual power; intellectuality.

One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.

Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.

To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell.

In an intellectual manner.

The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser.

One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.

Informing; giving information; talebearing. [Obs.] Shak. That sad intelligencing tyrant. Milton.

Intelligence. [Obs.] Evelyn.

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.

One who gives information; an intelligencer. [Obs.] Holinshed.

In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.

The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.

Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc. The intelligible forms of ancient poets. Coleridge.