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Intellectualize v. t.

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

To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.

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Etymology of 'Intellectualize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intellectualize" Quotes from Famous Books

... who abandons himself to the frenzy of vice. He invented for himself, partly from instinct, partly from method, a compromise between his contradictory tendencies, which he formulated in a fashion slightly pedantic, when he said that his sole aim was to "intellectualize the forcible sensations;" in clearer terms, he dreamed of meeting with, in human life, the greatest number of impressions it could give and to think of them after ...

— Cosmopolis, Complete • Paul Bourget

... did not intellectualize her reasons, but the core of her resistance was the very essence of an individuality having its roots in a self-respecting and self-controlling inheritance—an element wanting in her sister Lise. It must ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill