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Endowed with the faculty of reason
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intelligent
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question" [ant: unintelligent ] possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers" [syn: well-informed ] exercising ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, a back-formation from intelligence or else from Latin intelligentem (nominative intelligens ), present participle of intelligere , earlier intellegere (see intelligence ). Intelligent design , as a name for an alternative to atheistic cosmology ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intelligent \In*tel"li*gent\, a. [L. intelligens, intellegens, -entis, p. pr. of intelligere, intellegere, to perceive; inter between + legere to gather, collect, choose: cf. F. intelligent. See Legend .] Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an intelligent guess ▪ Analysis of the archaeological site will help us make an intelligent guess as to what it was used for. intelligent design intelligent/conscious/rational etc being ▪ a story about alien beings ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
Usage examples of intelligent.
Binah, elected to live in the Peninsula, since the greatest concentration of intelligent aborigines now resides there.
For ourselves, while whatever in us belongs to the body of the All should be yielded to its action, we ought to make sure that we submit only within limits, realizing that the entire man is not thus bound to it: intelligent servitors yield a part of themselves to their masters but in part retain their personality, and are thus less absolutely at beck and call, as not being slaves, not utterly chattels.
Clerval, the actor, had been gathering together a company of actors at Paris, and making her acquaintance by chance and finding her to be intelligent, he assured her that she was a born actress, though she had never suspected it.
In both cases amelioration is a matter of intelligent experimental contrivance based upon the nature of immediate conditions and equipped with every available resource and weapon.
All experiments of any kin, upon other adults, whether patients or inmates of public institutions or otherwise, if made without direct ameliorative purpose and the intelligent personal consent of the person who is the MATERIAL for the research.
The secret of the epoch-making success of the apologetic theology is thus explained: These Christian philosophers formulated the content of the Gospel in a manner which appealed to the common sense of all the serious thinkers and intelligent men of the age.
She saw his young, clear eyes, so deep, so intelligent, the well-formed young head, the willing face, all his young ardency for her, and it reassured her.
In school, Atta came across as very intelligent and reasonably pleasant,with an excellent command of the German language.
Sir--During the last day or two several of the more Intelligent of my acquaintances have suggested that The Avenger, whoever he may be, must be known to a certain number of persons.
Lumbee was not so quick to accept that Bazil was what he was, an intelligent person who could speak and be spoken to.
In Folge dieser Erziehung wird das Kind in der Assoziation mit drei Jahren intelligenter und geschickter sein, als es bei uns mit sechs Jahren ist.
Bauer was being opposed by a strong and intelligent man, Richard Bencher, the father of Bedelia.
Every minute the king passed her sofa, Biche raised her beautiful head and greeted her royal friend with an intelligent and friendly glance and a gentle wagging of her tail, and this salutation was returned each time by Frederick before he passed on.
Because the Talmud says when you mourn the dead you get ten Jewish men who come to the home of the deceased, not eight or seven or four, butten men, and you sit and you pray, and you hold services, and you light theyorzeit candles, and you recite thekaddish which as every intelligent life-form in the Cluster except maybe a nut butterfly knows, is the prayer for the dead, in honor and praise of God and the deceased.
The doctor came while I was with her, and just as her intelligent conversation was making me forget her face.