Word Meanings - INTELLECTUALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell. 2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities

Additional info about word: INTELLECTUALIZE

1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell. 2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.

Related words: (words related to INTELLECTUALIZE)

• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• INTELLECTUALIST
  1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
• INTELLECT
  The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power
• SENTIMENT
  fr. L. sentire to perceive by the senses and mind, to feel, to think. 1. A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action
• ENDOWMENT
  1. The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support. 2. That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church,
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• SENTIMENTALIST
  One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
• TREAT
  To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
• INTELLECTUAL
  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;
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• EXPRESSURE
  The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
• INTELLECTIVELY
  In an intellective manner. "Not intellectivelly to write." Warner.
• INTELLECTUALLY
  In an intellectual manner.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• EXPRESS TRAIN
  Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
• DISCUSSIONAL
  Pertaining to discussion.
• EXPRESSIVE
  1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
• REENDOW
  To endow again.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• RESENTIMENT
  Resentment.
• INTREAT
  See SPENSER