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A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. We both grub on in a muddle. Dickens.

kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.

Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.

The science of the understanding; intellectual science.

Of or pertaining to the intellect; intellectual. I would employ the word noetic to express all those cognitions which originate in the mind itself. Sir W. Hamilton.

The science of intellectual phenomena.

Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource.

or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.

Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste. T. Baker.

exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.

-- Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of grace. -- Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of some agent; as, in Latin,…

To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark; to discern; to see; to understand. Jesus perceived their wickedness. Matt. xxii. 18. You may, fair lady, Perceive I speak sincerely. Shak. Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it…

lton. The modern discussion between percept and concept, the one sensuous, the other intellectual. Max Müller.

Powerful, in an intellectual or moral sense; having great influence; as, potent interest; a potent argument. Cross potent. (Her.) See Illust. (7) of Cross.

Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.

act of heaven they marched, and many a province wide. Milton. Other provinces of the intellectual world. I. Watts.

One who makes, or is given to making, quotations. The narrow intellectuals of quotationists. Milton.

above the brutes, and constitute his rational nature, more especially, perhaps, his intellectual powers; sometimes to express the power of deduction or argumentation. Stewart. By the pure reason I mean the power by which we become possessed of principles. Coleridge. The sense perceives; the understanding, in its own p…

Hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.

at object has been previously perceived, and its image become part and parcel of our intellectual furniture. Sir W. Hamilton. All men are concious of the operations of their own minds, at all times, while they are awake, but there few who reflect upon them, or make them objects of thought. Reid. As I much reflected, mu…