Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Intellectualize
In′tel·lec′tu·al·ize (·al·īz), 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.