Intelligence

Definition of Intelligence

In`tel´li`gence

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.

And dimmed with darkness their intelligence.

- Spenser.

Information communicated; news; notice; advice.

Intelligence is given where you are hid.

- Shak.

Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites.

- Clarendon.

(Mil.) Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.

I write as he that none intelligence
Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence.

- Court of Love.

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.

- Tennyson.

(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.

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