intellected
English
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- Endowed with intellect; having intellectual capacities or powers.
- 1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book X.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 229, lines 294–297:
- [S]miting each with her enchanting wand, / She ſhut them in her ſties. In head, in voice, / In body, and in briſtles they became / All ſwine, yet intellected as before, […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “intellected”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)