INTELLECTIVE
In`tel*lec"tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. intellectif.]
1. Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.
2. Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. Glanvill.
3. Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses. Intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics. Milton.
INTELLECTIVELY
In`tel*lec"tive*ly, adv.
Defn: In an intellective manner. [R.] "Not intellectivelly to write."
Warner.
INTELLECTUAL
In`tel*lec"tu*al, a. Etym: [L. intellectualis: cf. F. intellectuel.]
1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts.
2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person. Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity Milton.
3. Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.