the intellect that is mind (divine or human; in thought feeling or will); by implication meaning

1. the mind, comprising alike the faculties of perceiving and understanding and those of feeling, judging, determining

a. the intellectual faculty, the understanding

b. reason in the narrower sense, as the capacity for spiritual truth, the higher powers of the soul, the faculty of perceiving divine things, of recognising goodness and of hating evil

c. the power of considering and judging soberly, calmly and impartially

2. a particular mode of thinking and judging, i.e thoughts, feelings, purposes, desires