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Grammar : Verb
Spell : in-too-it, -tyoo-; in-too-it, -tyoo-
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈtu ɪt, -ˈtyu-; ˈɪn tu ɪt, -tyu-



Definition of intuit

Origin :
  • 1776, "to tutor," from Latin intuit-, past participle stem of intueri (see intuition). Meaning "to perceive directly without reasoning" is from 1840, in this sense perhaps a back-formation from intuition. Related: Intuited; intuiting.
  • verb perceive
Example sentences :
  • I managed to intuit a fierce battle in which they were engaging.
  • Extract from : « Walls of Acid » by Henry Hasse
  • He cannot intuit, or think otherwise than in accordance with them.
  • Extract from : « Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation » by Jesse H. Jones
  • What I intuit must be true for me, what he intuits true for him.
  • Extract from : « A Critical History of Greek Philosophy » by W. T. Stace
  • Intuit′ionalism, the doctrine that the perception of truth is by intuition; Intuit′ionalist.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
  • Man, after a process of culture, comes to intuit some first principles, in some combinations.
  • Extract from : « Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation » by Jesse H. Jones
  • No one save a Bohemian could ever so intuit the gloomy profundity and unearthly fire of the Colchian sorceress.
  • Extract from : « The Gypsies » by Charles G. Leland
  • You cannot think without universalising, nor intuit without thinking.
  • Extract from : « Beauty and the Beast » by Stewart A. McDowall

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