intellectn.

Brit.

/ˈɪntᵻlɛkt/, U.S.

/ˈɪn(t)lˌɛk(t)/

Forms: Middle English–1500s intellecte, Middle English– intellect, 1600s intellectt, 1800s– intelleck (Scottish).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin intellectus.

Etymology: < classical Latin intellectus (u -stem) action of recognizing or discerning, action of understanding or comprehending, faculty of comprehension, understanding or agreement between two people, meaning, sense, signification < intellect- , past participial stem of intellegere (see intelligent adj.) + -tus , suffix forming verbal nouns. Compare Middle French, French intellect (c1265 in Old French as intellec ; rare before 16th cent.), Catalan intel·lecte (1490), Spanish intelecto (beginning of the 14th cent. as intellecto ), Italian intelletto (a1250). Compare intelligence n., intellection n.

a. That faculty, or sum of faculties, of the mind or soul by which a person knows and reasons; power of thought; understanding; analytic intelligence; (also) an instance of this. Occasionally used of an animal.Intellect generally excludes, and is sometimes distinguished from, sensation, imagination, and will.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun]

i-witc888

anyitOE

witOE

thoughtOE

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understandingc1384

intentc1386

intelligencec1390

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intellectivec1484

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notion1604

intelligency1663

mental1676

nous1678

grasp1683

thinker1835

Geist1871

noesis1881

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > [noun]

redeOE

witOE

skillc1175

skillwisenessa1200

reason?c1225

witsa1300

intellecta1398

rationala1398

understandinga1425

natural reason1440

rationabilitya1500

judgement1749

noesis1881

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iii. iii. 93 As þe yȝe is in þe body so is þe intellect, vndirstondinge, in þe soule.

c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 339 Right as a man hath Sapiences thre Memorie, engyn, and intellect also.

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1939 Oonly the Intellect with oute moore That dwelled in his herte syk and soore Gan faillen whan the herte felte deeth [Boccaccio Teseide x. cxi, Sol nello intelletto e nel cuore].

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 57 It reioyceth my intellect, true wit.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 351 All Heart they live, all Head, all Eye, all Eare, All Intellect, all Sense.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 28 The proper Acts of the Intellect are Intellection, Deliberation, and Determination or Decision.

1733 J. Bancks Poems on Several Occasions 14 A canting Priest, of special Note..Had got the Knack to draw Respect From all of feeble Intellect.

1773 Ld. Monboddo Orig. & Progress of Lang. (1774) I. i. iv. 45 The faculty by which it [the mind] operates singly, and without participation of the body, I call intellect.

1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised i. 46 To test the intellect of moths I tried the following little experiment.

1870 Blaine's Encycl. Rural Sports (rev. ed.) §851 The elephant..has given instances of what may be termed intellect that the horse does not possess.

1889 J. Ruskin Præterita III. iii. 93 The..elasticity and acuteness of the American intellect.

1926 W. Lewis Art of being Ruled viii. iv. 246 To be an ‘intelligence’ snob, and yet to run sensation against intellect , to sniff and curl the lip at the advantages of intellect—such are the contradictory habits that go hand in hand.

1961 H. W. Hetherington Melville's Reviewers ii. 39 Willis may not have had a great intellect, but there was one thing he understood, and that was women.

1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Jan. a1 His intellect and articulateness were widely appreciated among West European allies.

2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 230/1 Netzach is regarded as the sphere of creativity, subjectivity, and the emotions—a very clear contrast to the sphere of Hod, which represents intellect and rational thought.

b. In extended use: intellect embodied; spec. †(a) a being or spirit possessing understanding (obsolete); (b) a person of (usually great) intelligence; (also) such persons collectively.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] > intellectual being

intellect1602

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] > intelligent person > collectively

wit1536

intellect1602

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] > intellectual person > collectively

intellect1602

illuminati1816

intellectual elite1830

intelligentsia1883

high-browed1908

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] > intelligent person

wit1508

callent1637

intelligent1640

headpiece1647

intelligence1648

long head1744

intellect1842

sharpshins1883

brain1914

brain-box1942

brainiac1975

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] > intellectual person

illuminate1602

intellectualist1605

intelligence1648

intellectual1652

aerialist1778

intellect1842

intellectuality1863

cerebralist1890

highbrow1898

longhair1920

egghead1952

boffin1954

boff1984

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. i. sig. E3^v Thou royal spirit of Andrugio, where ere thou houerst (Ayrie intellectt).

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. vi. sig. Cc6^v How little will humane Intellects, without Revelation, discover of that manifold Wisdome of God.

1673 J. Milton Sonnets xi, in Poems (new ed.) 56 The Subject new: it walk'd the Town a while, Numbring good intellects; now seldom por'd on.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iv. xix. 252 It is more improper to say of God, he is an Intellect or intelligent Being, than to say of a reasonable Soul that it is an Angel.

1809 J. Hunt Examiner 24 Sept. 609/2 The counter weapons necessary to be put in the hands of his country's intellect.

1842 T. De Quincey Shakspeare in Encycl. Brit. XX. 184/2 This transcendent poet, the most august amongst created intellects.

1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. 22 To say that he [Shakespeare] was the greatest intellect that ever lived, is to bring the shades of Aristotle and Plato, and Bacon and Newton..grumbling about us.

1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus i. 14 Nietzsche, the wildest intellect of his century, lived in solitude.

1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 July k2 The intelligent public is being ripped off... Perhaps the new generation of intellect will move into literary power.

2000 J. Cavadini in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 381/1 The most daring and creative intellect in the whole period..is John Scotus Eriugena (c. 810–77).

c. In plural. Intellectual powers; mental faculties; senses, wits. Now archaic and rare.Very common in the 17–18th centuries.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] > intellectual powers

five witsc1200

wits1362

inwitc1380

spiritsc1450

fifteen wits1606

intellectuals1615

intellects1649

furniture1788

plant1861

marbles1902

1649 R. Baron Apol. for Paris sig. A3 Your will is a Law to me, and the least beck of your commands the Alarum that cals all my Intellects and Faculties into a posture of serving you.

1698 J. Vanbrugh 1st Pt. Æsop i, in Wks. (1840) 370/1 I know he's modest, but I likewise know His intellects are categorical.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 95. ⁋18 My judgment embarrassed, and my intellects distorted.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. civ. 142 A man of sound intellects.

1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 166 He was weak in his intellects.

1814 F. Burney Wanderer I. 390 Her faculties are all disordered; her very intellects, I fear, are shaken.

1832 H. Martineau Demerara i. 12 Mark had never been very bright in his intellects during his best days.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vii. 671 To ask, why this Don Quixote..should have been more likely to lose his intellects by reading romances than Cervantes himself.

1851 G. Borrow Lavengro III. viii. 114 At length he suspected that I was unsettled in my intellects.

1902 ‘O. Henry’ in Brandur Mag. 27 Sept. 3/2 The information was of the piledriver system of news, and it telescoped my intellects for a while.

†2. Comprehension; understanding. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [noun]

witOE

understandinga1050

intention1340

intendmentc1374

knowledgea1387

intelligencec1390

conceitc1405

intellect?a1475

perceiverancea1500

perceiverationa1500

receipta1500

intendiment1528

reach1542

apprehension1570

toucha1586

understandingnessa1628

apprehensivenessa1639

ingenuity1651

comprehensiona1662

intelligibility1661

intelligency1663

uptake1816

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 141 (MED) A man of grete intellecte myȝte speke welle [L. qui intellexerit commode proloqui poterit].

1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 15 Some in Frenche they made, for intellecte Of men that could no Latyn vnderstande.

†3. That which is meant by something; sense, meaning, signification. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [noun]

to owe a wolda1325

meaninga1387

significationa1398

understanding1433

pretensionc1443

intellect?a1475

tendment1519

sense1530

reciprocation1604

sensing1613

denotation1614

apprehension1615

explicitness1630

sounda1631

notion1646

bodementa1657

means1656

force1709

notation1829

connotation1865

content1875

territory1875

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 235 (MED) The sustir of Leonida kynge, takenge aweye the wexe, founde the intellecte and sentence of that writenge.

1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. B.v^v Whiche verbe doeth accorde with the intellecte or sygnifycacyon & not with y^e voyce.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 132 I will looke againe on the intellect of the letter, for the nomination of the partie written to the person written vnto.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

intellectv.

Brit.

/ˈɪntᵻlɛkt/, U.S.

/ˈɪn(t)lˌɛk(t)/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: intellect n.

Etymology: < intellect n. Compare slightly earlier intelligence v.Apparently re-formed in the 20th cent.

†1. transitive. To give to understand; to inform. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > inform (a person)

to teach a person a thingc888

meanOE

wiseOE

sayOE

wittera1225

tellc1225

do to witc1275

let witc1275

let seec1330

inform1384

form1399

lerea1400

to wit (a person) to saya1400

learn1425

advertise1431

givec1449

insense?c1450

instruct1489

ascertain1490

let1490

alighta1500

advert1511

signify1523

reform1535

advise1562

partake1565

resolve1568

to do to ware1594

to let into one's knowledge1596

intellect1599

possess1600

acquainta1616

alighten1615

recommenda1616

intelligence1637

apprise1694

appraise1706

introduce1741

avail1785

prime1791

document1807

to put up1811

to put a person au fait of1828

post1847

to keep (someone) straight1862

monish1866

to put next to1896

to put (one) wise (to)1896

voice1898

in the picture1900

to give (someone) a line on1903

to wise up1905

drum1908

hip1932

to fill (someone) in on1945

clue1948

background1961

to mark a person's card1961

to loop in1994

1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Bbii Which intellecteth vs..that Iudges and such like officers..ought continually striue by all endeuours to suppresse wrongs.

2. transitive. To understand or interpret by means of intellect (intellect n. 1a). Now chiefly Philosophy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > interpret in particular way [verb (transitive)]

understandc1000

interpretc1380

construea1400

construec1465

to make (a) construction1528

expound1533

confera1555

reada1556

decipher1569

resemble1592

intellect1599

1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. E^v These Stations are many times thus intellected [It. le quali stagioni sono mostrate..in questo modo]: by the Spring is meant Venus: the Summer signifies Ceres.

1939 P. Miller New Eng. Mind v. 147 By the precepts of the science of dialectic, are not the identical things, so widely diffused, so infinite in number, so dissimilar in genus, intellected, expounded, disputed?

1980 Studia Islamica 51 113 These beings or things are either intellected by man or he imagines them.

2006 F. E. Cranz Reorientations of Western Thought x. 5 The forms in matter..are not intellectibles or intellects in their own right; they have become such only in the intellect which intellects them.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	intellect
释义	intellectn. Brit. /ˈɪntᵻlɛkt/, U.S. /ˈɪn(t)lˌɛk(t)/ Forms: Middle English–1500s intellecte, Middle English– intellect, 1600s intellectt, 1800s– intelleck (Scottish). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin intellectus. Etymology: < classical Latin intellectus (u -stem) action of recognizing or discerning, action of understanding or comprehending, faculty of comprehension, understanding or agreement between two people, meaning, sense, signification < intellect- , past participial stem of intellegere (see intelligent adj.) + -tus , suffix forming verbal nouns. Compare Middle French, French intellect (c1265 in Old French as intellec ; rare before 16th cent.), Catalan intel·lecte (1490), Spanish intelecto (beginning of the 14th cent. as intellecto ), Italian intelletto (a1250). Compare intelligence n., intellection n. 1. a. That faculty, or sum of faculties, of the mind or soul by which a person knows and reasons; power of thought; understanding; analytic intelligence; (also) an instance of this. Occasionally used of an animal.Intellect generally excludes, and is sometimes distinguished from, sensation, imagination, and will. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] i-witc888 anyitOE witOE thoughtOE inwitc1305 intention1340 mindc1384 understandingc1384 intentc1386 intelligencec1390 intellecta1398 minda1398 understanda1400 intellectionc1449 ingeny1477 intellectivec1484 mind-sight1587 intellectual1598 notion1604 intelligency1663 mental1676 nous1678 grasp1683 thinker1835 Geist1871 noesis1881 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > [noun] redeOE witOE skillc1175 skillwisenessa1200 reason?c1225 witsa1300 intellecta1398 rationala1398 understandinga1425 natural reason1440 rationabilitya1500 judgement1749 noesis1881 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iii. iii. 93 As þe yȝe is in þe body so is þe intellect, vndirstondinge, in þe soule. c1405 (c1380) G. Chaucer Second Nun's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 339 Right as a man hath Sapiences thre Memorie, engyn, and intellect also. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1939 Oonly the Intellect with oute moore That dwelled in his herte syk and soore Gan faillen whan the herte felte deeth [Boccaccio Teseide x. cxi, Sol nello intelletto e nel cuore]. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 57 It reioyceth my intellect, true wit. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 351 All Heart they live, all Head, all Eye, all Eare, All Intellect, all Sense. View more context for this quotation a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 28 The proper Acts of the Intellect are Intellection, Deliberation, and Determination or Decision. 1733 J. Bancks Poems on Several Occasions 14 A canting Priest, of special Note..Had got the Knack to draw Respect From all of feeble Intellect. 1773 Ld. Monboddo Orig. & Progress of Lang. (1774) I. i. iv. 45 The faculty by which it [the mind] operates singly, and without participation of the body, I call intellect. 1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised i. 46 To test the intellect of moths I tried the following little experiment. 1870 Blaine's Encycl. Rural Sports (rev. ed.) §851 The elephant..has given instances of what may be termed intellect that the horse does not possess. 1889 J. Ruskin Præterita III. iii. 93 The..elasticity and acuteness of the American intellect. 1926 W. Lewis Art of being Ruled viii. iv. 246 To be an ‘intelligence’ snob, and yet to run sensation against intellect , to sniff and curl the lip at the advantages of intellect—such are the contradictory habits that go hand in hand. 1961 H. W. Hetherington Melville's Reviewers ii. 39 Willis may not have had a great intellect, but there was one thing he understood, and that was women. 1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 Jan. a1 His intellect and articulateness were widely appreciated among West European allies. 2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 230/1 Netzach is regarded as the sphere of creativity, subjectivity, and the emotions—a very clear contrast to the sphere of Hod, which represents intellect and rational thought. b. In extended use: intellect embodied; spec. †(a) a being or spirit possessing understanding (obsolete); (b) a person of (usually great) intelligence; (also) such persons collectively. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] > intellectual being intellect1602 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] > intelligent person > collectively wit1536 intellect1602 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] > intellectual person > collectively intellect1602 illuminati1816 intellectual elite1830 intelligentsia1883 high-browed1908 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] > intelligent person wit1508 callent1637 intelligent1640 headpiece1647 intelligence1648 long head1744 intellect1842 sharpshins1883 brain1914 brain-box1942 brainiac1975 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] > intellectual person illuminate1602 intellectualist1605 intelligence1648 intellectual1652 aerialist1778 intellect1842 intellectuality1863 cerebralist1890 highbrow1898 longhair1920 egghead1952 boffin1954 boff1984 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. i. sig. E3^v Thou royal spirit of Andrugio, where ere thou houerst (Ayrie intellectt). 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. vi. sig. Cc6^v How little will humane Intellects, without Revelation, discover of that manifold Wisdome of God. 1673 J. Milton Sonnets xi, in Poems (new ed.) 56 The Subject new: it walk'd the Town a while, Numbring good intellects; now seldom por'd on. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iv. xix. 252 It is more improper to say of God, he is an Intellect or intelligent Being, than to say of a reasonable Soul that it is an Angel. 1809 J. Hunt Examiner 24 Sept. 609/2 The counter weapons necessary to be put in the hands of his country's intellect. 1842 T. De Quincey Shakspeare in Encycl. Brit. XX. 184/2 This transcendent poet, the most august amongst created intellects. 1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. 22 To say that he [Shakespeare] was the greatest intellect that ever lived, is to bring the shades of Aristotle and Plato, and Bacon and Newton..grumbling about us. 1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus i. 14 Nietzsche, the wildest intellect of his century, lived in solitude. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 17 July k2 The intelligent public is being ripped off... Perhaps the new generation of intellect will move into literary power. 2000 J. Cavadini in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 381/1 The most daring and creative intellect in the whole period..is John Scotus Eriugena (c. 810–77). c. In plural. Intellectual powers; mental faculties; senses, wits. Now archaic and rare.Very common in the 17–18th centuries. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] > intellectual powers five witsc1200 wits1362 inwitc1380 spiritsc1450 fifteen wits1606 intellectuals1615 intellects1649 furniture1788 plant1861 marbles1902 1649 R. Baron Apol. for Paris sig. A3 Your will is a Law to me, and the least beck of your commands the Alarum that cals all my Intellects and Faculties into a posture of serving you. 1698 J. Vanbrugh 1st Pt. Æsop i, in Wks. (1840) 370/1 I know he's modest, but I likewise know His intellects are categorical. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 95. ⁋18 My judgment embarrassed, and my intellects distorted. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. civ. 142 A man of sound intellects. 1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 166 He was weak in his intellects. 1814 F. Burney Wanderer I. 390 Her faculties are all disordered; her very intellects, I fear, are shaken. 1832 H. Martineau Demerara i. 12 Mark had never been very bright in his intellects during his best days. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. vii. 671 To ask, why this Don Quixote..should have been more likely to lose his intellects by reading romances than Cervantes himself. 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro III. viii. 114 At length he suspected that I was unsettled in my intellects. 1902 ‘O. Henry’ in Brandur Mag. 27 Sept. 3/2 The information was of the piledriver system of news, and it telescoped my intellects for a while. †2. Comprehension; understanding. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > [noun] witOE understandinga1050 intention1340 intendmentc1374 knowledgea1387 intelligencec1390 conceitc1405 intellect?a1475 perceiverancea1500 perceiverationa1500 receipta1500 intendiment1528 reach1542 apprehension1570 toucha1586 understandingnessa1628 apprehensivenessa1639 ingenuity1651 comprehensiona1662 intelligibility1661 intelligency1663 uptake1816 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 141 (MED) A man of grete intellecte myȝte speke welle [L. qui intellexerit commode proloqui poterit]. 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 15 Some in Frenche they made, for intellecte Of men that could no Latyn vnderstande. †3. That which is meant by something; sense, meaning, signification. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > [noun] to owe a wolda1325 meaninga1387 significationa1398 understanding1433 pretensionc1443 intellect?a1475 tendment1519 sense1530 reciprocation1604 sensing1613 denotation1614 apprehension1615 explicitness1630 sounda1631 notion1646 bodementa1657 means1656 force1709 notation1829 connotation1865 content1875 territory1875 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1871) III. 235 (MED) The sustir of Leonida kynge, takenge aweye the wexe, founde the intellecte and sentence of that writenge. 1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. B.v^v Whiche verbe doeth accorde with the intellecte or sygnifycacyon & not with y^e voyce. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 132 I will looke againe on the intellect of the letter, for the nomination of the partie written to the person written vnto. View more context for this quotation This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). intellectv. Brit. /ˈɪntᵻlɛkt/, U.S. /ˈɪn(t)lˌɛk(t)/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: intellect n. Etymology: < intellect n. Compare slightly earlier intelligence v.Apparently re-formed in the 20th cent. †1. transitive. To give to understand; to inform. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > inform (a person) to teach a person a thingc888 meanOE wiseOE sayOE wittera1225 tellc1225 do to witc1275 let witc1275 let seec1330 inform1384 form1399 lerea1400 to wit (a person) to saya1400 learn1425 advertise1431 givec1449 insense?c1450 instruct1489 ascertain1490 let1490 alighta1500 advert1511 signify1523 reform1535 advise1562 partake1565 resolve1568 to do to ware1594 to let into one's knowledge1596 intellect1599 possess1600 acquainta1616 alighten1615 recommenda1616 intelligence1637 apprise1694 appraise1706 introduce1741 avail1785 prime1791 document1807 to put up1811 to put a person au fait of1828 post1847 to keep (someone) straight1862 monish1866 to put next to1896 to put (one) wise (to)1896 voice1898 in the picture1900 to give (someone) a line on1903 to wise up1905 drum1908 hip1932 to fill (someone) in on1945 clue1948 background1961 to mark a person's card1961 to loop in1994 1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Bbii Which intellecteth vs..that Iudges and such like officers..ought continually striue by all endeuours to suppresse wrongs. 2. transitive. To understand or interpret by means of intellect (intellect n. 1a). Now chiefly Philosophy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > interpret in particular way [verb (transitive)] understandc1000 interpretc1380 construea1400 construec1465 to make (a) construction1528 expound1533 confera1555 reada1556 decipher1569 resemble1592 intellect1599 1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. E^v These Stations are many times thus intellected [It. le quali stagioni sono mostrate..in questo modo]: by the Spring is meant Venus: the Summer signifies Ceres. 1939 P. Miller New Eng. Mind v. 147 By the precepts of the science of dialectic, are not the identical things, so widely diffused, so infinite in number, so dissimilar in genus, intellected, expounded, disputed? 1980 Studia Islamica 51 113 These beings or things are either intellected by man or he imagines them. 2006 F. E. Cranz Reorientations of Western Thought x. 5 The forms in matter..are not intellectibles or intellects in their own right; they have become such only in the intellect which intellects them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398v.1599
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