The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intelligencer \In*tel"li*gen*cer\, n. One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.
All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies,
and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that
principle.
--Burke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "spy, informant," agent noun from intelligence. Meaning "bringer of news" is from 1630s; as a newspaper name from 1640s.
Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) A bringer of intelligence (news, information); a spy or informant.
Wikipedia
intelligencer is an archaic word for someone "who conveys intelligence or information", "One employed to obtain secret information, an informer, a spy, a secret agent", or "A bringer of news; a messenger; an informant; a newsmonger". The term may refer to:
Newspapers- Daily Intelligencer (1849–1871) Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Edwardsville Intelligencer (1862–present) Edwardsville, Illinois, USA
- Illinois Intelligencer (1814–1832), earlier the Western Intelligencer, Kaskaskia and Vandalia, Illinois, USA
- Intelligencer Journal (1794–present) Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
- National Intelligencer (1800–1867) Washington, D.C., USA
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1863–present) Seattle, Washington, USA
- The Intelligencer, early name of The Advocate (Stamford) (1829–present) Stamford, Connecticut, USA
- The Intelligencer & Wheeling News Register (1859–present) Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
- The Pennsylvania Intelligencer, early name of The Patriot-News (1820–present) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- The Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) (1804–present) Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Belleville Intelligencer, Belleville, Ontario, Canada
- The English Intelligencer (1966–1968) poetry newsletter, UK
- The Mathematical Intelligencer (1979–present) New York, USA
- Informant
- Transatlantic Intelligencer
- Intelligencer, Inc., the name of a private investigation firm located in the metropolitan Los Angeles, California area, registered as a trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Usage examples of "intelligencer".
You want to get on the Intelligencer, you want to get in at once, and you have had no previous experience.
Get hold of a few back numbers, and study the Sunday Intelligencer feature story.
I should esteem it, ahem, a privilege to give you a line myself to the Intelligencer people.
He rolled his Intelligencer sideways, narrowing his vulnerable area as he slipped between them.
The Intelligencer tilted crazily as its pilot tried to compensate for broken symmetry.
He had aimed his Intelligencer toward a gap in the interceptors, but one had drifted into the center of his path.
You have the makings of an excellent intelligencer, can you but curb your impulse to reason in advance of your data.
As far as I can tell, the only practitioners in all of Vanguard are the young intelligencer Deveron and myself.
A moonstone named Concealer, the most puissant tool imaginable for a Royal Intelligencer, was now his own.
Marshal dy Palliar will need an experienced intelligencer, an officer who knows Jokona and the Jokonans better than any other, who speaks and writes both court and vile Roknari, possessing trunks full of maps and charts and ground plans, to advise his strategies in this region.
But he acquitted himself better than I had expected and showed more skill than many an intelligencer properly waged by the government.
Otherworld team, every intelligencer in the Southland has come to Tathcaer seeking news.
He will sit snug in Woodstock and send out intelligencers, and it will be odds against those intelligencers ever returning.
Cecil, the Spanish Ambassador at the English court de Spes, all had intelligencers to inform them.
His squadron of Intelligencers had covered half the distance from dropsite to objective without meeting any resistance.