noun
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An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
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The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
adjective
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Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
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intellectual powers, activities, etc.
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Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity
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an intellectual person
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Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect
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intellectual employments
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Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
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intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy
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Spiritual.