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uninteˈllectual, a.
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†1. Not endowed with intellect; unintelligent.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. viii. (1677) 373 The rest of Mankind, or the unintellectual Creatures.
2. a. Not intellectually developed; dull.
1819Keats Lines to Fanny 14 My muse..Unintellectual, yet divine to me. 1872Liddon Elem. Relig. i. 13 They thought that the apostles had been unintellectual persons.
b. Not characterized by the presence of intellect.
1837Hallam Hist. Lit. i. viii. §3 A sound..not unpleasing to all.., but monotonous, unintellectual. 1846Poe A.C. Mowatt Wks. 1865 III. 43 The forehead is..by no means an unintellectual one. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 129 It has become the fashion to decry such pleasures..as unintellectual.
Hence uninteˈllectualism, unintellectuˈality.
Also unintellectually adv. (Webster, 1847).
1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 735/1 The very same characteristics of inertia, unintellectuality, and uncombiningness. 1880W. L. Courtney in E. Abbott Hellenica 254 That theory of unintellectualism with which Epicurus started. |