What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an
intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not
the cause, of his pains. --Fuller.
2. Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as
in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from
``mediate'' knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows
by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not
a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or
ready insight or apprehension.
Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us
call it intuition. --Hawthorne.
3. Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition;
especially, a first or primary truth.