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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INTELLECTIVE

a.Having power to understand. 1. Produced by the understanding.
2. To be perceived by the understanding, not by the senses.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INTELLECTIVE

In `tel *lec "tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. intellectif.]

1. Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.

2. Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. Glanvill.

3. Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses. Intellective abstractions of logic and metaphysics. Milton.

INTELLECTIVELY

INTELLECTIVELY In `tel *lec "tive *ly, adv.

Defn: In an intellective manner. [R.] "Not intellectivelly to write. " Warner.