Intellectualize

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intellectualize \In`tel*lec"tu*al*ize\, v. t.
     1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss
        intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express
        intellectually; to idealize.
        [1913 Webster]
  


              Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. --Lowell.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities
        upon; to cause to become intellectual.
        [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "intellectualize":
     analyze, apply reason, cerebrate, cogitate, conceive,
     conceptualize, deduce, entertain ideas, exercise the mind,
     form ideas, generalize, hypothesize, ideate, infer, logicalize,
     logicize, philosophize, provide a rationale, rationalize, reason,
     syllogize, synthesize, theorize, think, use reason