Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or generated by the intellect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the intellect; having power to understand, know, or comprehend.
- Produced by the understanding.
- Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.
- Intellectual; intelligent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.
- adjective Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational.
- adjective Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, related to, or caused by the
intellect . - adjective Having the capacity to
reason andunderstand .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Obj. 3: Further, if the vice of curiosity can be about any kind of intellective knowledge, it would be chiefly about the philosophical sciences.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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And it is the intellect (and accompanying intellective appetite, volition) that makes us human.
July 13th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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"The distinction between a simple living being and a spiritual being that is 'capax Dei', points to the existence of the intellective soul of a free transcendent subject".
ID/Evolution 2009
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Shivani: You always make a distinction between the intellectual and the intellective.
Anis Shivani: Exclusive: Beat Poet Michael McClure On Jim Morrison, The Doors, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac Anis Shivani 2011
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The distinction between a simple living being and a spiritual being that is capax Dei, points to the existence of the intellective soul of a free transcendent subject.
ID/Evolution 2009
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Shivani: Was Allen Ginsberg intellectual or intellective?
Anis Shivani: Exclusive: Beat Poet Michael McClure On Jim Morrison, The Doors, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac Anis Shivani 2011
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A finer sense of things is occasioned by Bishop Kallistos Ware's depiction of the nous as "the intellective aptitude of the heart."
Scott Cairns: Lost Christian Language For Repairing The Person Scott Cairns 2010
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A finer sense of things is occasioned by Bishop Kallistos Ware's depiction of the nous as "the intellective aptitude of the heart."
Scott Cairns: Lost Christian Language For Repairing The Person Scott Cairns 2010
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“Non-intellective” factors — like motivation and social skills — probably matter more.
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And that is the primal imaginative-intellective act which created words in the first place: as sound equivalents, or signs, for real observed phenomena (physical, emotional, psychological, intellectual …)
Writing and Failure (Part 7) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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