intuit

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US /ɪnˈtuɪt/ UK /ɪnˈtjuːɪt/
verb Freq #95267

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    To know intuitively or by immediate perception.

    Accordingly ſome have been pleaſed to name the complex of the phaenomena, so far as it is intuited i.e. apprehended immediately, the ſenſual world, but ſo far as its connection is thought according to univerſal laws of understanding, the intellectual world.

  2. 2
    verb

    know or grasp by intuition or feeling

Etymology

A back-formation from intuition and intuitive; compare Latin intuitus (“observed; considered”), perfect participle of intueor (“to look at, upon or towards; to observe, regard; to consider, contemplate”), from in- (“in, inside”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”)) + tueor (“to look or gaze at”). Related to tuition, tutor.

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