INTELLECT

intellect|intellectual. Intellect, or Intellectual, n. understanding, ideal

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In″tel‐lect (?), n. [[L. intellectus, fr. intelligere, intellectum, to understand: cf. intellect. See Intelligent.]] (Metaph.) 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.