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Webster 1913 Edition


Intelligencer

In-tel′li-gen-cer

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Noun.
One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.
All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the
intelligencers
. . . acted solely upon that principle.
Burke.

Webster 1828 Edition


Intelligencer

INTEL'LIGENCER

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Noun.
One who sends or conveys intelligence; one who gives notice of private or distant transactions; a messenger.
1.
A public paper; a newspaper.

Definition 2024


intelligencer

intelligencer

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Noun

intelligencer (plural intelligencers)

  1. (dated) A bringer of intelligence (news, information); a spy or informant.
    • 1922, Geoffrey Montagu Cookson (transl.), The Suppliant Maidens, page 8 in Four Plays of Aeschylus.
      'Tis likely that the Princes of this land
      Have heard of us from messengers and come
      To be their own intelligencers.

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