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Webster 1913 Edition
Intelligence
1.
The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
2.
The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
And dimmed with darkness their
intelligence
. Spenser.
3.
Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
Intelligence
is given where you are hid. Shakespeare
4.
Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
[Obs.]
He lived rather in a fair
intelligence
than any friendship with the favorites. Clarendon.
5.
Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
Specifically;
(Mil.)
Information about an enemy or potential enemy, his capacities, and intentions.
I write as he that none
Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence.
intelligence
Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence.
Court of Love.
6.
An intelligent being or spirit; – generally applied to pure spirits;
as, a created
. intelligence
Milton.
The great
That range above our mortal state,
In circle round the blessed gate,
Received and gave him welcome there.
Intelligences
fairThat range above our mortal state,
In circle round the blessed gate,
Received and gave him welcome there.
Tennyson.
Syn. – Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report.
Webster 1828 Edition
Intelligence
INTEL'LIGENCE
,Noun.
1.
Understanding; skill.2.
Notice; information communicated; an account of things distant or before unknown. Intelligence may be transmitted by messengers, by letters, by signals or by telegraphs.3.
Commerce of acquaintance; terms of intercourse. Good intelligence between men is harmony. So we say, there is a good understanding between persons, when they have the same views, or are free from discord.4.
A spiritual being; as a created intelligence. It is believed that the universe is peopled with innumerable superior intelligences.INTEL'LIGENCE
,Verb.
T.