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noun

Intelligence n.

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."

3.

Information communicated; news; notice; advice. "Intelligence is given where you are hid."

4.

Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. (Obs.) "He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites."

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 intelligence Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence."

6.

An intelligent being or spirit; generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. "The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there."

7.

(Mil.) The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.

Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.

Synonyms: Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intelligence" Quotes from Famous Books

... for example, the wealthiest of all college officials, a precise, old-fashioned, kind-hearted nonentity, a simple tool of more intelligent Conservatives; and Henry Smith, an Irishman of the keenest order of intelligence, ready to give an intellectual assent to the abstract desirability of the best and highest in all things. On another of the names originally suggested I may quote Smith himself, for when Dean Burgon's appointment was ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn

... analysis, and so he refused to study his motives. He did know that he had not seen her for a long time, the longest time it seemed, and that he had had no word from her since their last meeting, save the intelligence received from her father yesterday in response to his repeated inquiries concerning her welfare and that ...

— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

... query respecting William Basse and his poem, "Great Britain's Sun's Set," (No. 13. p. 200), produced no positive information touching that production, it gave an opportunity to some of your correspondents to communicate valuable intelligence relating to the author and to other works by him, for which I, for one, was very much obliged. If I did not obtain exactly what I wanted, I obtained something that hereafter may be extremely useful; and that I could not, perhaps, have obtained in any other way than through the ...

— Notes and Queries 1850.04.06 • Various

... began our daily visits to the women and children at the Wanderers' and Tattersall's to-day. At the Wanderers' alone are nearly three hundred. The wonderful provision made for their health and comfort spoke well for the intelligence as well as heart of the Reform Committee, and Mr. Lingham, an American, who has that especial department in charge. We found the dancing-hall of the Wanderers' converted into a huge dormitory, the supper-room into a sick ward, and the skating-rink reserved for women newly confined—fright ...

— A Woman's Part in a Revolution • Natalie Harris Hammond

... out of the dark glooms and sunlit spaces of the orchard, or creeping about the lofts and barns as though they were full of the most desperate dangers and hazards that she alone had the pluck and intelligence to overcome. Then Mrs. Monk was kind to her, and listened to her imaginative chatter with a most marvellous patience. Mary did not know that, after these narrations, she would shake her head and say to her husband: "Not long for this world, I'm thinking, poor worm...not ...

— Jeremy • Hugh Walpole

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