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intellected

intellected adjective: endowed with intellect; intellectual or intelligent.

Adjective

intellected (not comparable)

  1. Endowed with intellect; intellectual or intelligent.
    • [S]miting each with her enchanting wand, / She ſhut them in her ſties. In head, in voice, / In body, and in briſtles they became / All ſwine, yet intellected as before, […]1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book X.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 229...

Origin of intellected

From intellect + -ed.

Questions about intellected

What does intellected mean?
Intellected means endowed with intellect; intellectual or intelligent.
What part of speech is intellected?
Intellected is an adjective.

Words near intellected in the dictionary

  1. inteins
  2. intel
  3. intelectin
  4. intelectins
  5. intellect
  6. intellected
  7. intellection
  8. intellections
  9. intellective
  10. intellectively
  11. intellects

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