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Word Meanings - INTELLECTUALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Intellectual power; intellectuality. 2. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.

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  • DERIVATIVE
    Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
  • REASONING
    1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • POWERABLE
    1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
  • REASONLESS
    1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
  • INTELLECTUALIST
    1. One who overrates the importance of the understanding. Bacon. 2. One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.
  • REASONABLY
    1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
  • INTELLECTUAL
    1. Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. Logic is to teach us the right use of our reason or intellectual powers. I. Watts. 2. Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding;
  • INTELLECTUALLY
    In an intellectual manner.
  • REASONIST
    A rationalist. Such persons are now commonly called "reasonists" and "rationalists," to distinguish them from true reasoners and rational inquirers. Waterland.
  • REASON
    Ratio; proportion. Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view.
  • DERIVATIONAL
    Relating to derivation. Earle.
  • DERIVATION
    The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
  • INTELLECTUALITY
    Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.
  • REASONABLE
    1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being. 2. Governed by reason; being under influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason;
  • REASONABLENESS
    Quality of being reasonable.
  • DERIVEMENT
    That which is derived; deduction; inference. I offer these derivements from these subjects. W. Montagu.
  • POWERLESS
    Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
  • DERIVER
    One who derives.
  • REASONER
    One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.
  • PREKNOWLEDGE
    Prior knowledge.
  • CANDLE POWER
    Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
  • ACKNOWLEDGE
    1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
  • IMPOWER
    See EMPOWER
  • UNREASONABLE
    Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
  • MISDERIVE
    1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
  • UNKNOWLEDGED
    Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.
  • POLICE POWER
    The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
  • DISEMPOWER
    To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
  • ACKNOWLEDGER
    One who acknowledges.
  • TREASONABLE
    Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;

 

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