The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intelligence \In*tel"li*gence\, n. [F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia. See Intelligent.]
The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
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The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
And dimmed with darkness their intelligence.
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Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
Intelligence is given where you are hid.
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Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.]
He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites.
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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.
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An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.
--Milton.The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there.
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(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.
Syn: Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report.
Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) An office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.
Usage examples of "intelligence office".
At 1:30 the Operations Center intercepted a report from the Air Defense station at Nakhodka to the intelligence office of the Marshal of the Air Force that their radar had gone haywire for nearly four minutes but that everything seemed to be all right now.
She had been approached by the Japanese Defense Intelligence Office, Jouhou Honbu, when she was a student at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Law and Politics.
In 1961 he had become an operations intelligence analyst at the Navy Field Operational Intelligence Office at the agency.
As soon as Mayfield returned to the District Intelligence Office, he had a messenger bring them down to Rochefort.
Event Horizon's commercial intelligence office noted that the molecular interaction studies Mousanta was doing would fit in with a couple of the company's own research programmes.
He ordered the arrest of every man, woman, and child on the farm, then spoke to the press while P-Squad vans transported the prisonersincluding those critically woundedoff-site, presumably to one of the P-Squad interrogation centers like the main Intelligence Office on Nineveh Base.
Blair glanced at the faces grouped around the table: the squadron commanders, deputies from each of the four squadrons, and representatives from the Wing's technical and maintenance staff and from Victory's Intelligence Office.
The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment Group at Roswell Army Air Force Base announced at noon today that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer.
But I called the nearest Scout Intelligence office and had them dead-brained.
Offhand, though, he could think of nothing he would like less than to be sitting in an Intelligence office somewhere trying to sift gold nuggets out of the effluvia of Peep propaganda 'faxes.
As Earl of Selern, he was reluctant to employ the full power of his Intelligence office without some shred of hard evidence.