Crossword clues for intellectualize
intellectualize
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intellectualize \In`tel*lec"tu*al*ize\, v. t.
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To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion.
--Lowell. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1819, from intellectual + -ize. Related: Intellectualized; intellectualizing.\n
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually. 2 To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual. 3 (context US transitive English) to find a seemingly rational explanation for something: 4 # (context psychology English) to use (excessive) reasoning and rationalization to block out emotional stress and anxiety associated with painful or traumatic experiences vb. 1 To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually. 2 To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual. 3 (context US transitive English) to find a seemingly rational explanation for something: 4 # (context psychology English) to use (excessive) reasoning and rationalization to block out emotional stress and anxiety associated with painful or traumatic experiences
Usage examples of "intellectualize".
Oh, there was a holiday, of course, and even the gaunt, Gaullist figure of Pere Noel, an ascetic and intellectualized version of Santa.
This is shown herein, not by abstract formulae and intellectualized theories, but organically and historically.
There were these two great powers out there gobbling up the galaxy world by world, fighting over each life-zone planet, letting everything go to hell while they spent all their energy on breeding and building new fleets and new weapons and intellectualizing mightily over which system was best, the tight, central control of the Empire or the allied dictatorships of the Cassiopeian sectors.