Ĭn′tel-lēct, n.

n. [Lat. intellectus, from intelligere, intellectum, to understand; from inter, between, and legere, to gather, collect; Fr. intellect, Sp. intelecto, It. intelletto.] The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; — sometimes the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive and imagine; the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend.