IPage 184
- English Word Integument Definition That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular.
- English Word Integumentary Definition Belonging to, or composed of, integuments.
- English Word Integumentation Definition The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.
- English Word Intellect Definition The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.
- English Word Intellected Definition Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities.
- English Word Intellection Definition A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself.
- English Word Intellective Definition Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.
- English Word Intellective Definition Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational.
- English Word Intellective Definition Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.
- English Word Intellectively Definition In an intellective manner.
- English Word Intellectual Definition Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
- English Word Intellectual Definition Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
- English Word Intellectual Definition Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
- English Word Intellectual Definition Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
- English Word Intellectual Definition The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
- English Word Intellectualism Definition Intellectual power; intellectuality.
- English Word Intellectualism Definition The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
- English Word Intellectualist Definition One who overrates the importance of the understanding.
- English Word Intellectualist Definition One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
- English Word Intellectuality Definition Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.
- English Word Intellectualize Definition To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize.
- English Word Intellectualize Definition To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
- English Word Intellectually Definition In an intellectual manner.
- English Word Intelligence Definition The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
- English Word Intelligence Definition The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
- English Word Intelligence Definition Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
- English Word Intelligence Definition Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
- English Word Intelligence Definition Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
- English Word Intelligence Definition An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.
- English Word Intelligencer Definition One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.