intellectualizev.
/ˌɪntᵻˈlɛktʃʊəlʌɪz/, /ˌɪntᵻˈlɛktʃᵿlʌɪz/, /ˌɪntᵻˈlɛktʃl̩ʌɪz/, /ˌɪntᵻˈlɛktjʊəlʌɪz/, /ˌɪntᵻˈlɛktjᵿlʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌɪn(t)əˈlɛk(t)ʃ(əw)əˌlaɪz/ 1. † b. intransitive with reflexive meaning. To become intellectual. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To make (a subject, concept, etc.) intellectual; to give an intellectual character or quality to (something). Also intransitive.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > render intellectual [verb (transitive)]
intellectualize?1792
athleticize1879
?1792 J. Stewart Trav. Most Interesting Parts Globe II. 114 As the body animalizes food or matter, so serves wisdom to intellectualize knowledge.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 525 It makes literature popular, and refines and intellectualizes life.
1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 594 The bent of Sir Joshua's mind was to elevate, to dignify, to intellectualize.
1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. xiii. 506 Leibnitz intellectualised perception just as Locke sensualised the conceptions of the understanding.
1930 I. Goldberg Tin Pan Alley vii. 193 Herbert..was not so easily intellectualized, by the sophisticates, as of late our comic-strip men and our jazzophiles have been intellectualized.
1975 A. J. Damico Democracy & Case for Amnesty iii. 37 An examination of men's motives..is likely to result in a bias that favors the educated and articulate over those who cannot intellectualize their motives.
2008 D. Lett Phoenix Rising xii. 207 These are all necessary to remind us and to remember the atrocity, lest we intellectualize and trivialize this experience.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose poetry [verb (intransitive)] > of poetry: become intellectual
intellectualize1897
1897 A. Birrell in Daily News 8 Nov. 6/7 If they considered the characteristics of the poetry of that day and its progress down to the present time, he thought they could not fail to see that it had intellectualised a great deal.
2. intransitive. To exercise the intellect; to talk or write intellectually; to reason, philosophize.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosopher > [verb (intransitive)]
philosophya1382
philosophize1594
philosophate1603
intellectualize1827
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > have intelligence [verb (intransitive)] > apply intelligence
to cast one's wits15..
intellectualize1827
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > exercise intellect [verb (intransitive)]
intellectualize1827
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 516 Yet could I sit and moralize, and intellectualize, for hours at this window.
1941 W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee vi. 59 The fidgety folk of cities who palaver and intellectualize.
1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 31 May 31/4 Rita only wants to talk about Chekhov and to intellectualise.
Derivatives
inteˈllectualized adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [adjective] > rendered
intellectualized?1792
?1792 J. Stewart Trav. Most Interesting Parts Globe II. 178 So moral bodies, conjoined with intellectualized minds, move upon the axis self, in the orbit of society.
1897 Times 8 Nov. 12/3 Browning began as he ended with an intellectualized treatment of poetry.
1970 Oxf. Compan. Art 293/2 Cubism is the outcome of intellectualized rather than spontaneous vision.
2006 Church Times 6 Jan. 19/1 Merton's lectures to the novices at Gethsemane were revolutionary in evoking a monastic spirituality very different from the..intellectualised meditation that was generally found elsewhere.
inteˈllectualizing n. and adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > [noun] > philosophizing
philosophying1591
philosophizing1594
philosophation1644
philosophating1649
philosophization?1795
intellectualizing1829
philosophication1851
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] > exercise of intellect
intellectualizing1829
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [adjective] > adding quality of
intellectualizing1829
1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 368 Whatever may be pleaded for its soothing and intellectualizing effects.
1854 E. G. Holland Mem. J. Badger iv. 46 This intellectualizing on great vital facts.
1881 J. C. Shairp Aspects Poetry vii. 202 One sentiment, one emotion, simple, passionate, unalloyed with intellectualising or analysis.
1951 Jrnl. of Personality 29 472 We hypothesized that intellectualizing patients..would show higher accuracy for threatening material than the repressing type of patient.
1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 37 In our universities '68 meant a great deal of romantic posturing, outright intolerance, and shabby intellectualizing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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