Definition of "intellection" [in•tel•lec•tion]

• The act or process of using the intellect; thinking or reasoning. (noun)
• A thought or an idea. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The intellection is the more profound for this internal possession of the object."
• "Nor therefore has it intellection which is a thing of the lower sphere where the first intellection, the only true, is identical with"
• "Intellectual-Principle — though, of course, there is another cause of intellection which is also a cause to Being, both rising in a source distinct from either."