intellectuals
From chapter 9 of the Tale of a Tub

Cf. Paradise. Lost, Bk. ix. 1.483, speakingof Adam, 'Whose higher intellectual more I shun.' Also Davenant, Preface to Gondibert, 'heroic poets . . . whose intellectuals were of so great a making ... as they will perhaps, in worthy memory, outlast even makers of laws.'