单词 | intuitive |
释义 | intuitiveadj.n. A. adj. a. Beholding, seeing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > looking at or beholding viewing1563 beholding1594 intuitive1644 onlookinga1666 contemplative1814 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 82 If therefore we but cast an intuitive eye upon those memorials. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > direct or indirect vision intuitive1593 speculara1620 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie ii. vii. 117 The greatest assurance generally with all men is that which we haue by plaine aspect and intuitiue beholding. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) An intuitive Vision is a cleer sight of a thing, as it is in itself. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [adjective] > of spiritual kind intuitive1593 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xi. 82 Faith..beginning here with a weake apprehension of things not sene, endeth with the intuitiue vision of God in the world to come. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. iii. §1. 212 We may ascend..vnto the very presence, and intuitiue vision of God. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §33 If they [spirits] have that intuitive knowledge, whereby..they behold the thoughts of one another. View more context for this quotation 3. a. Of knowledge or mental perception: That consists in immediate apprehension, without the intervention of any reasoning process. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [adjective] belly-sprung1607 intuitive1645 intuitional1860 pre-rational1875 pre-reflective1902 telepathic1902 pre-reflexive1955 shoot-from-the-hip1967 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxxix. 78 Being faithfull ey-witnesses of those things which other receive but in trust, wherunto they must yeeld an intuitive consent, and a kind of implicit faith. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xi. 263 Intuitive Knowledge, where the Ideas themselves, by an immediate view, discover their Agreement, or Disagreement one with another. 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 234 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 J. Norris Ess. 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. 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. 1st Ser. i. 9 The intuitive vision comes like an inspiration. b. Of a truth: Apprehended immediately or by intuition. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [adjective] > apprehended by intuition noumenal1803 intuitive1833 intuitable1884 intuited1886 1833 J. S. Mill 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. 1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Polit. (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. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] > innate or natural i-cundeeOE fleshly971 kindlyOE kindc1175 naturalc1275 kindc1390 innatea1420 nativea1425 inborn1513 innative1513 habitual1526 ingenerate1531 instincta1538 innated1545 inset1545 of one's nativity1582 inbreda1592 connatural1599 prognatec1600 ingenious1601 ingenit1604 congenite1610 connativea1618 intuitive1621 infusive1630 habituous1633 veined1633 genial1646 connatea1652 relollacean1654 relollaceous1657 relolleous1662 congenial1664 complanted1668 ingrown1670 ingenerated1677 unborrowed1704 cogenite1712 born1741 naturable1771 unacquired1793 congenerous1813 congenital1848 ingrain1852 indigenousa1864 ingenital1886 wired-in1957 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes Introd. 32 Hauing not the gift of Prophesie, nor Intuitiue knowledge of what you would one day vndertake. 1845 E. Holmes Life 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [adjective] > acting by intuition intuitive1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 488 Whence the soule Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive . View more context for this quotation 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 121 The first intuitive glance, without any elaborate process of reasoning, would shew, that this..would justify every extent of crime. View more context for this quotation 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. ix. 75 Mr. Boffin, who had a deep respect for his wife's intuitive wisdom. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. i. v. 88 The swift power of intuitive discernment was not yet theirs. 5. Of persons: Possessing intuition. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [adjective] > possessing intuition vaticinant1647 intuitive1652 self-knowing1828 intuent1865 intuitional1877 sixth-sensed1976 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila sig. A4v Super-cœlestials are Intelligencies..excellent in their Beings, intuitive in their Conceptions. 1660 R. Burney Κέρδιστον Δῶρον 115 When Kings are as Intuitive Angels, to support and set a living pattern. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [adjective] > relating to or holding doctrine of intuitivism intuitive1852 intuitivista1866 1852 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 58 362 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 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism 4 The intuitive school affirm as strongly as the inductive, that there is a science of morals. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. i. 2 The intuitive moralist..believes that the utilitarian theory is profoundly immoral. 7. Obvious to the senses; directly visible. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible senec1175 well seenc1175 naked?c1225 well isenec1275 bremec1340 evidenta1382 apparent1393 palpable?1435 open1478 pointablea1555 faira1568 full-eyed1581 unmasked1590 eyeful?1611 plain1613 prospecta1640 unovercloudeda1658 intuitive1801 unmystified1822 shroudless1841 unforeshortened1846 trenchant1849 focusable1889 1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. iii. 150 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. 1820 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting II. iv. 28 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > intuition > [noun] > intuitive knowledge > one who works by intuitionist1855 intuitive1907 1907 Westm. Gaz. 28 Nov. 2/1 Poincaré divides mathematicians into analysts and geometers—i.e., into logicians and ‘intuitives’. 1927 A. Huxley Proper Stud. 207 Intellectuals and intuitives. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.n.1593 |
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