a. [UN-1 7.]
† 1. Not endowed with intellect; unintelligent.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., IV. viii. (1677), 373. The rest of Mankind, or the unintellectual Creatures.
2. a. Not intellectually developed; dull.
1819. Keats, Lines to Fanny, 14. My muse … Unintellectual, yet divine to me.
1872. Liddon, Elem. Relig., i. 13. They thought that the apostles had been unintellectual persons.
b. Not characterized by the presence of intellect.
1837. Hallam, Hist. Lit., I. viii. § 3. A sound … not unpleasing to all…, but monotonous, unintellectual.
1846. Poe, A. C. Mowatt, Wks. 1865, III. 43. The forehead is … by no means an unintellectual one.
1856. N. Brit. Rev., XXVI. 129. It has become the fashion to decry such pleasures … as unintellectual.
Hence Unintellectualism, Unintellectuality.
Also unintellectually adv. (Webster, 1847).
1834. T. Taylor, trans. Plotinus, 78. Was it, however, not yet intellect when it beheld the good, but surveyed it unintellectually?
1850. Tait’s Mag., XVII. 735/1. The very same characteristics of inertia, unintellectuality, and uncombiningness.
1880. W. L. Courtney, in E. Abbott, Hellenica, 254. That theory of unintellectualism with which Epicurus started.
