intellect 
in·tel·lect (in′tə lekt′)
noun
- the ability to reason or understand or to perceive relationships, differences, etc.; power of thought; mind
- great mental ability; high intelligence
- a mind or intelligence, esp. a superior one
- a person of high intelligence
- minds or intelligent persons, collectively
Etymology: ME < L intellectus, a perceiving, understanding < pp. of intellegere, intelligere, to perceive, understand < inter-, between, among + legere, to gather, pick, choose: see logic
intellect
n.
The power to reason
understanding, comprehension, ability; see acumen, judgment 1.The mind
intelligence, brain, mentality; see mind 1.
Converse of object
- penetrate: His keen and penetrating intellect enabled him to find a Biblical basis for every provision of the Oral Law.
- stimulate: An added bonus would be that yellow is a great color for stimulating the intellect i.e. doing that homework.
- possess: Yet it would seem that only a spiritual creature, possessing intellect and will, is capable of returning to God.
- engage: It is worth notice- that practical jurisprudence has long engaged the American intellect with success.
- combine: She combined a fine intellect with a straightforward, no nonsense approach that spoke directly to people.
- require: Even the eternal teachings require human intellect to be rightly enforced in a new environment.
Converse of subject
- grasp: It cannot be identified with a pebble, whatever its degree of abstraction, and can never be grasped by a disembodied intellect.
Adjective modifier
- formidable: This formidable intellect was to become one of the most influential men of his time.
- towering: Meanwhile the man responsible for this waste is showing off his towering intellect.
- superior: The attendant looked worried, knowing deep in his heart that he'd been truly defeated by a superior intellect.
- fierce: He now turns his fierce intellect exclusively on this subject, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.
- sharp: I am also a very innovative creative writer with a sharp keen intellect.
- divine: Only one part of the divine intellect is in play, not divine assent or the divine will.
Modifies a noun
- cannot: Human intellect cannot estimate what we owe to woman, sir.
- book: Intellect books are not aimed at the educated reader at large.
Noun used with modifier
- agent: But the cause of this, the agent intellect, is not a faculty of the soul.
- X-ray: X-ray intellect is not necessary to read my book.
Possessives
- man: Later, even man's intellect or mind would be swallowed up by the machine theory.
- child: A stranger would be critical and judge the child's intellect whilst playing with that toy.
Preposition: of
- man: We witness ' to Allah's address is engraved upon the intellect of man as a proof which reminds man of Allah's Lordship.
The Democratic Intellect.
A pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Of these two literatures [French and German], as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has beena critical effort; the endeavours, in all branches of knowledgeötheology, philosophy, history, art, scienceötoseethe object as initself it really is.
I now speak of the sex in general. Many individuals have more sense than their male relatives; andsome women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
The march of intellect.
A merely great intellect can produce great prose, but not poetry, not one line.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:ö We murder to dissect. Enough of science and of art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth and bring with you a heart That watches and receives.
When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivativefromthispureactivitymanipulated bya sortof priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.
I care not whether a man isgood or evil; all that I care Is whether he is a wise man or a fool.Go! put off Holiness, And put on intellect, or my thunderous hammer shall drive thee, To wrath which thou condemnest, till thou obey my voice.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
I scorched my intellect into a cinder of stolidity.
O bom era ter uma intelige" ncia e na o entender. Era uma be" n c° a o estranha como a de ter loucura sem ser doida. Era um desinteresse manso em rela c° a o a' s coisas ditas do intelecto, uma do c° ura de estupidez. What was good was to have intelligence and yet not understand. It was a strange blessing like experiencing madness without being mad. It was a gentle lack of interest with respect to the so-called things of the intellect, a sweet stupidity.
In vita itaque apprime utile est, intellectum seu Rationem, quantum possumus, perficere, et in hoc uno summa hominis felicitas seu beatitudo consistit; quippe beatitudo nihil aliud est, quam ipsa animi acquiescentia quae ex Dei intuitiva cognitione oritur. It is therefore extrememly useful in life to perfect as much as we can the intellect or reason, and of this alone doesthegreatest happiness or blessedness of man exist: for blessedness is nothing else than satisfaction of mind which arises from the intuitive knowledge of God.
When Pearse summoned Cuchulain to his side, What stalked through the Post Office? What intellect, What calculation, number, measurement, replied? We Irish, born into that ancient sect But thrown upon this filthy modern tide And by its formless spawning fury wrecked, Climb to our proper dark, that we may trace The lineaments of a plummet-measured face.
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