intelligential
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin intelligentia (“intelligence”) + -al.[1]
Adjective
editintelligential (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to intelligence.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost[1]:
- […] in at his mouth
The Devil entered; and his brutal sense,
In heart or head, possessing, soon inspired
With act intelligential; but his sleep
Disturbed not, waiting close the approach of morn.
- 1814, The Rev. H. F. Cary, M.A., The Vision of Paradise, Part 3.[2]:
- Nor demonstration physical alone,
Or more intelligential and abstruse,
Persuades me to this faith; but from that truth
It cometh to me rather, which is shed
Through Moses, the rapt Prophets, and the Psalms.
- 1918, Henry A. Beers, A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century[3]:
- In the line of light bringers who pass from hand to hand the torch of intelligential fire, there are men of most unequal stature, and a giant may stoop to take the precious flambeau from a dwarf.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editof or pertaining to intelligence
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References
edit- ^ “intelligential”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.