2. Knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without
deduction or reasoning.
Whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being,
Discursive, or intuitive.
Milton.
3. Received, reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as,
intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to deductive. Locke.
In*tu"i*tive*ly, adv. In an intuitive manner.
In*tu"i*tiv*ism (?), n. The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong
are intuitive. J. Grote.
In`tu*mesce" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Intumesced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Intumescing (?).] [L. intumescere; pref. in- in + tumescere to swell
up, incho. fr. tumere to swell. See Tumid.] To enlarge or expand with
heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action
of heat, as before the blowpipe.
In a higher heat, it intumesces, and melts into a yellowish black
mass.
Kirwan.