2. 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.
Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those
thoughts that wander through eternity?
Milton.
3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for,
the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual
employments.
4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as,
intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
In`tel*lec"tu*al, n. The intellect or understanding; mental powers or
faculties.
Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose higher
intellectual more I shun.
Milton.