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   Intelligence (?), n. [F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia. See Intelligent.]
   
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   1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
   
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   2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
   
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   And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser.
   
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   3. Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
   
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   Intelligence is given where you are hid. Shak.
   
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   4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.]
   
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   He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. Clarendon.
   
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   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.
   
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   I write as he that none intelligence
   
   Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence. Court of Love.
   
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   6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, “a created intelligence”.  Milton.
   
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   The great Intelligences fair
   
   That range above our mortal state,
   
   In circle round the blessed gate,
   
   Received and gave him welcome there. Tennyson.
   
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   7. (Mil.) The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.
   
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   Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.
   
   Syn. -- Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report.
   
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