The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intellective \In`tel*lec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. intellectif.]
Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.
Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational.
--Glanvill.-
Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.
Intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics.
--Milton.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, related to, or caused by the intellect. 2 Having the capacity to reason and understand.
Usage examples of "intellective".
In each particular human being we must admit the existence of the authentic Intellective Act and of the authentically knowable object--though not as wholly merged into our being, since we are not these in the absolute and not exclusively these--and hence our longing for absolute things: it is the expression of our Intellective activities: if we sometimes care for the partial, that affection is not direct but accidental, like our knowledge that a given triangular figure is made up of two right angles because the absolute triangle is so.
Intellective Principle, not previously possessing the Idea of Magnitude or any trace of that Idea or any other.
This combined power springs from the Supreme, an outflow and as it were development from That and remaining dependent upon that Intellective nature, showing forth That which, in the purity of its oneness, is not Intellectual-Principle since it is no duality.
Sprung, in other words, from the Intellectual-Principle, Soul is intellective, but with an intellection operation by the method of reasonings: for its perfecting it must look to that Divine Mind, which may be thought of as a father watching over the development of his child born imperfect in comparison with himself.
This principle is the primally intellective since there can be no intellection without duality in unity.
Intellective causes which are to be unfolded from it, author as it is not of the chance--made but of what the divine willed: and this willing was not apart from reason, was not in the realm of hazard and of what happened to present itself.
The Intellectual-Principle, the veritably and essentially intellective, can this be conceived as ever falling into error, ever failing to think reality?
To its quality of being intellective it adds the quality by which it attains its particular manner of being: remaining, therefore, an Intellectual-Principle, it has thenceforth its own task too, as everything must that exists among real beings.
If then intellection is apprehension apart from body, much more must there be a distinction between the body and the intellective principle: sensation for objects of sense, intellection for the intellectual object.