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/ˈɪntəlˌɛkt/ /ˈɪnəlˌɛkt/ Listen

noun

Intellect n.

(Metaph.) The part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity.

A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence; as, he was a great intellect.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intellect" Quotes from Famous Books

... point on which I would venture to say a word to parents is this. Do not take your girls away from school too early. Every schoolmaster knows that the most valuable years, those which leave the deepest marks in character and intellect, are those from sixteen to eighteen. It is equally true with girls, as schoolmistresses know equally well. It is in the later years that they get the full benefit of the higher teaching, and that much of what may have seemed the drudgery of earlier work reaps its natural and deserved reward. ...

— Three Addresses to Girls at School • James Maurice Wilson

... gratitude to Mr. S—- for the attention bestowed on her son, by some strange perversion of intellect she seems to regard him and us as his especial enemies. Last night she ordered us from his room, and declared that her 'precious bhoy was not going to die like a hathen, surrounded by a parcel of heretics;' ...

— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie

... was within half a mile of the Maine, and my small boat was the first to gain the wreck. It is beyond my power to describe the explosion. It was awful. It paralysed the intellect for a few moments. The cries that came over the water awakened us to a realisation that some ...

— The Boys of '98 • James Otis

... come—of that love which loves to see the loved ones prospering in honesty. That noble brow—for it is noble; I am unchanged in that opinion, and will go unchanged to my grave—covers thoughts as to the welfare of many, and an intellect fitted to the management of a household, of servants, namely, and children, and perchance a husband. That mouth can speak words of wisdom, of very useful wisdom—though of poetry it has latterly uttered little that was original. Poetry and romance! They ...

— John Bull on the Guadalquivir from Tales from all Countries • Anthony Trollope

... which serve them for food, are slowly changing, they must undergo a corresponding change in their structure, habits, and constitution, to keep them in harmony with the new conditions—to enable them to live and maintain their numbers. But man does this by means of his intellect alone, the variations of which enable him, with an unchanged body, still to keep in harmony with the ...

— Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection - A Series of Essays • Alfred Russel Wallace

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