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intuit, v.|ɪnˈtjuːɪt, ˈɪn-|
Also -ite.
[f. L. intuit-, ppl. stem of intuērī: see intuition.]
†1. trans. ? To tutor, to instruct. Obs. rare.
1776Adventures of a Corkscrew 15 Scarce..a sharper or gambler but what could freely take his lordship by the hand; intuited by such company, it was in vain his mother now attempted to remonstrate..against his proceedings.
2. a. intr. or absol. To receive or assimilate knowledge by direct perception or comprehension.
1840–1De Quincey Rhetoric Wks. 1859 XI. 42 God must see; he must intuit, so to speak; and all truth must reach him simultaneously. 1895Thinker VIII. 448 Anselm does not attempt to intuit, but only to prove. 1968J. C. Holmes Nothing more to Declare 105 You had to be able to intuit on the bias, to hear music being music.
b. trans. To know anything immediately, without the intervention of any reasoning process; to know by intuition.
1858Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. ii. (1862) 28 note, He is a being..who by the eternal necessity even of his nature, intuits everything. 1872H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. II. vii. iv. 359 note, If space and time are forms of intuition they can never be intuited; since it is impossible for anything to be at once the form of intuition and the matter of intuition. 1874Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 419 The mind intuites what the eye cannot see. 1881Sully Illusions 33 Our other senses are also avenues by which we intuit and recognize objects. 1926A. Huxley Two or three Graces 85 You intuit things that aren't there at all. 1968Times 13 Jan. 20/3 We may intuit his reality, but we cannot share it. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Feb. 178/1 What Johnson intuited and asserted in 1765, that of the Folios only the first had any textual authority, was demonstrated by Malone in 1790. |