\In`tel*lec"tu*al\ (?; 135), a. [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.
4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as,
   intellectual philosophy, sometimes called ``mental''
   philosophy.

\In`tel*lec"tu*al\, n.
The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
      Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh, Whose
      higher intellectual more I shun.         --Milton.
      I kept her intellectuals in a state of exercise. --De
                                               Quincey.