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intellective

[in-tl-ek-tiv] / ˌɪn tlˈɛk tɪv /








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So my intellective function from the day I met her started going up to keep up with her.

From Washington Post Jun. 13, 2021

On the other hand justice is in the intellective appetite as its subject, which can have the universal good as its object, knowledge whereof belongs to the intellect.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Aquinas Thomas

For Christ as man communicates with plants by His nutritive soul, with the brutes by His sensitive soul, and with the angels by His intellective soul, even as other men do.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas

But the intellective power of the angel extends to understanding all things: because the object of the intellect is universal being or universal truth.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas

Therefore it is an operation, not of the intellective, but of the appetitive power.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Aquinas Thomas




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