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Verb: intellectualise  `in-tu'lek-choo-u`lIz
Usage: Brit
  1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize
    - intellectualize
     
  2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual
    - intellectualize

Derived forms: intellectualised, intellectualises, intellectualising