Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Intellectualize \In`tel*lec"tu*al*ize\, v. t.
   1. To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss
      intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express
      intellectually; to idealize.

            Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. --Lowell.

   2. To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities
      upon; to cause to become intellectual.