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intuitive, a. (and n.)|ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv|
[ad. med.L. intuitīv-us, f. intuitus intuition; cf. F. intuitif, -ive.]
A. adj.
†1.
a. Beholding, seeing. Obs.
1644Bulwer Chirol. 82 If therefore we but cast an intuitive eye upon those memorials.
†b. Of sight or vision: That consists in direct and immediate looking upon an object, and sees it as it is. Obs.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. ii. vii. §5 The greatest assurance generally with all men, is that which we haue by plaine aspect and intuitiue beholding. 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v., An intuitive Vision is a cleer sight of a thing, as it is in itself.
†2. Said esp. of the kind of ‘vision’ or immediate perception ascribed to angelic and spiritual beings. (See intuition 4.) Obs. (or merged in 3).
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. xi. §6 Faith..beginning here with a weak apprehension of things not seen, endeth with the intuitive vision of God in the world to come. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. iii. §1 (1622) 212 We may ascend..vnto the very presence, and intuitiue vision of God. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §33 If they [spirits] have that intuitive knowledge, whereby..they behold the thoughts of one another.
3. a. Of knowledge or mental perception: That consists in immediate apprehension, without the intervention of any reasoning process.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 67 Being faithfull ey-witnesses of those things which other receive but in trust, whereunto they must yeeld an intuitive consent, and a kind of implicit faith. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. i. §9 Intuitive Knowledge, where the Ideas themselves by an immediate View, discover their Agreement or Disagreement one with another. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 143 Intuitive [Intellectual Sight] when we perceive the Agreement or Disagreement of one Idea with another immediately and by themselves, without the Mediation of any other Idea. 1704― Ideal World ii. iii. 146 Immediate knowledge, or knowledge of the principle, we may call intuitive, because the mind then in one and the same view that it perceives the ideas, perceives also their relations. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. i. 9 The intuitive vision comes like an inspiration.
b. Of a truth: Apprehended immediately or by intuition.
1833Mill Let. 5 July (1910) i. ii. 54, I conceive that most of the highest truths are..intuitive; that is, they need neither explanation nor proof, but if not known before are assented to as soon as stated. 1872Bagehot Physics & Pol. (1876) 118 The truths of Arithmetic, intuitive or not, certainly cannot be acquired independently of experience.
c. Of any faculty or gift: Not acquired by learning; innate.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ Introd. 32 Hauing not the gift of Prophesie, nor Intuitiue knowledge of what you would one day vndertake. 1845E. Holmes Mozart 9 The musical faculty appears to have been intuitive in him.
4. Of the mind or reason, or a mental act or process: That acts by intuition or immediate apprehension; opposed to discursive.
1667Milton P.L. v. 488 Whence the soule Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 159 The first intuitive glance, without any elaborate process of reasoning, would shew, that this..would justify every extent of crime. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. ix, Mr. Boffin, who had a deep respect for his wife's intuitive wisdom. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 63 The swift power of intuitive discernment was not yet theirs.
5. Of persons: Possessing intuition.
1652Benlowes Theoph. Pref., Super-cœlestials are Intelligencies..excellent in their Beings, intuitive in their Conceptions. 1660Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 115 When Kings are as Intuitive Angels, to support and set a living pattern. 1851Gallenga Italy i. 5 Hardly a deep, intuitive poet, like Dante, in the fourteenth century.
6. Of or pertaining to the school of moral philosophy that holds the first principles of ethics to be apprehended immediately or by intuition.
1852Mill in Westm. Rev. LVIII. 362 If it is alleged that the intuitive school require, as an authority for the feeling, that it should in fact be universal, we deny it. 1861― Utilit. 4 The intuitive school affirm as strongly as the inductive, that there is a science of morals. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. I. i. 2 The intuitive moralist..believes that the utilitarian theory is profoundly immoral.
7. Obvious to the senses; directly visible. rare.
1801Fuseli in Lect. Paint. iii. (1848) 434 It is placed beyond all doubt by the glorious apparition above; it is made nearly intuitive by the uplifted hand and finger of the Apostle in the centre. c1811Ibid. iv. 450 It may be more than doubted whether the resignation of Alcestis can ever be made intuitive..the Art can show no more than Alcestis dying.
B. n. One who works by intuition.
1907Westm. Gaz. 28 Nov. 2/1 Poincaré divides mathematicians into analysts and geometers—i.e., into logicians and ‘intuitives’. 1927A. Huxley Proper Stud. 207 Intellectuals and intuitives. |