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Quotation dates: 1881-1907
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INTELLECK, n. Gen.Sc. form of Eng. intellect. See P.L.D. §63.2. Used in pl. = wits, senses, in such phrs. as to be soun' in the intellecks, to have one's intellects, to have the full use of one's senses (Rxb.4 1958). Now obs. or dial. in Eng.Bnff. 1881 W. M. Philip K. MacIntosh's Scholars 135:
This young man had ance an uncle that wasna soun i' the intellecks. . . . He's terrible for gyaun throu' the wuds and muirs, speakin' till himsel'.Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) ii.:
That when a man's heid's fu' o' brains . . . he maun hae some occupation for his intelleck.Arg. 1907 N. Munro Daft Days i.:
George Jordan, the common cowherd . . . was always a little funny in his intellects.
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