intelligence 
tween them; to have iittellii/eiicc with the en- 
emy. 
From whence I found a secret means to have 
1 ntetligence with my kind lord, the king. 
Drayton, Pierce Gaveston. 
The inhabitants eould not long live In good intelligence 
among themselves ; they (ell Into disscntions. 
J. Adam*, Works, IV. 616. 
5. Information received or imparted ; commu- 
nicated knowledge; news: as, intelligence of a 
shipwreck. 
I can give you intelligence of an Intended marriage. 
shut.. Much Ado, I. ::,!>.. 
6. An intelligent being ; intellectual existence; 
concrete understanding: as, God is the Supreme 
Intelligence. 
How fully hast thou satisfied me, pure 
Intelligence of heaven, angel serene ! 
Jtfitton, P. L., vlii. 181. 
The great Intelligence* fair 
That range above our mortal state. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, bcxxv. 
Intelligence department, a burean of statistics or of 
information with regard to certain specified matters ; espe- 
cially, in the military and naval establishments of several 
countries, n department which collects and prepares ab- 
stracts of all the information attainable concerning the 
resources of all civilized nations for waging offensive or 
defensive wars. The subjects of information relatechiefly 
to organization of armies, topography and routes, speed and 
armament of naval vessels, defenses, strategy ana tactics, 
etc. Intelligence office, an office or place where Infor- 
mation may be obtained, particularly respecting servants 
to be hired. =8yn. 1. Understanding, intellect, mind, per- 
ception, common sense. 0. Advice, Tidings, etc. (see news), 
notification. 
intelligence! (in-tel'i-jens), v. t. [< intelligence, 
n.] To convey intelligence ; telltales; tattle. 
If vou stir far in this, lie have you whlpt, your ears 
nall'd for intelligencing o' the pillory, and your goods for- 
feit. Beau, and Ft., Scornful Lady, 111. 1. 
intelligencer (in-tel ' i- jen-ser), n. [< intelli- 
gence, v., + -eri.] One who or that which sends 
or conveys intelligence ; one who or that which 
gives notice of private or distant transactions ; 
a messenger or spy. [The word was formerly much 
used In the specific sense of 'a newspaper.'] 
Alas, I know not how to feign and lie, 
Or will a base intelligencer's meed. 
Middleton, Father Hubbard's Tales. 
It was a carnival of Intellect without faith, . . . when 
prime ministers and commanders in-chief could be intel- 
ligencers of the Pretender, nay, when even Algernon Sid- 
ney himself could be a pensioner of France. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 400. 
intelligencyt (in-tel'i-jen-si), . Same as in- 
telligetice. 
From flocks, herds, and other natural assemblages or 
groups of living creatures, to hu.uan intelligences and cor- 
respondeucys, or whatever is higher in the kind. 
Shafteslmry, Mlc. Reflect., lit 2. 
intelligent (in-tel'i-jent), a. [< F. intelligent = 
Sp. Pg. It. intelligent, < L. intellegen(t~)s, intelli- 
gen ( t-)s, discerning, understanding, ppr. of i ntel- 
legere, intcllir/ere, see into, perceive, discern, dis- 
tinguish, discriminate, understand, < inter, be- 
tween, 4- legere, gather, collect, pick, choose, 
read : see legend.} 1 . Having the faculty of un- 
derstanding; capable of comprehending facts 
or ideas: as, man is an intelligent being. 
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, how- 
ever rude, of the shape of an object and of their burrows, 
as seems to be the case, they deserve to be called intelli- 
gent. Darwin, Vegetable Mould, p. 97. 
2. Having an active intellect ; possessing apti- 
tude or skill; well informed: as, an intelligent 
artisan or officer. 
There is nothing that . . . may more easily deceive the 
unwary, or that may more amuse the most intelligent ob- 
server. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed, 1835X II. 381. 
8. Marked by or indicating intelligence; guided 
by knowledge or comprehension : as, the intelli- 
gent actions of ants; an intelligent answer. 
Vallandigham . . . was too far away for intelligent and 
efficient direction. The Century, XXXVIII. 553. 
4f. Having knowledge ; cognizant: folio wed by 
of. 
The eagle and the stork 
On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build : 
Part loosely wing the region : part, more wise, 
In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way. 
Intelligent of seasons. Xiltan, P. L, viL 427. 
5f. Bearing intelligence ; giving information ; 
communicativo. 
Servants, who seem no less ; 
Which are to France the spies and speculations 
Intelligent of our state. Shai., Lear, ill. 1, 26. 
= Syn. 2. Common-stnte, etc. (see trnrible); quick, bright, 
acute, discerning, sharp witted, clear-headed, 
intelligential (iu-tel-i-jen'shal), a. [< intelli- 
gence (L. intHligentia) + -a/.]' 1. Pertaining 
to the intelligence; relating to or capable of 
understanding; intellectual. 
3133 
That grand prerogative of our nature, a hungering and 
thirsting after truth, as the appropriate end of our intelli- 
gential, and its point of union witii our moral, nature. 
Coleridge, The Friend, ii. ;i. 
The generality of men attend . . . hardly at all to the 
Indications ... of a true law of our being on its esthetic 
and intelligential side. 
M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, I. 
2. Consisting of intelligence or concrete mind. 
Food alike those pure 
Intelligential substances require. 
Mdton, P. L, 1. 408. 
3f. Intelligent. 
In at his mouth 
The devil enter'd ; and his brutal sense, 
In heart or head, possessing, soon Inspired 
With act intelligential. Milton, P. L., Ix. 190. 
4. Conveying intelligence ; serving to transmit 
information. 
The New York telegraph office, radiating 250,000 miles 
of intelligential nerves to ten thousand mind-centers in 
America, The Century, XXVI. 992. 
intelligentiaryt (in-tel-i-jen'shi-a-ri), n. [< i- 
telligence (L. tntelligentia) + -ary.] One who 
conveys intelligence; one who communicates 
information ; an intelligencer. Holinshed. 
intelligently (in-tel'i-jent-li), adr. In an in- 
telligent manner; so as to manifest knowledge 
or understanding. 
intelligibility (in-tel'i-ji-bil'i-ti). . [= F. n- 
telligibilite = It. intelligibility', < L. as if 'intel- 
legibilita(t-)s, < intellegibilis, intelligible: see 
intelligible.} 1. The quality or character of 
being intelligible; capability of being under- 
stood. 
I call It outline, for the sake of immediate intellvjiliUi- 
ty; strictly speaking, it is merely the edge of the shade. 
Kutkin, Elem. of Drawing. 
2f. The property of possessing intelligence or 
understanding ; intellection. 
The soul's nature consists in intelligibility. QlanvUlc. 
intelligible (in-tel'i-ji-bl), a. [= F. intelligi- 
ble = Sp. inteligible = Pg. intelligirel = It. in- 
ti I / i;i Hi il<; < L. intcllegibilis, intelligibilis, that 
can be understood, < intellegere.inUUigere, un- 
derstand: see intelligent.'] 1. That can be un- 
derstood ; capable of being apprehended by the 
intellect or understanding; comprehensible. 
If Charles had been the last of his line, there would 
have been an intelligible reason for putting htm to death. 
Macaulay, Uallam's Const. Hist. 
2. In the Kantian philosophy, capable of being 
apprehended by the understanding only; in- 
capable of being given in sense or applied to it. 
In the middle ages intelligible and intellective were care- 
fully distinguished, the former word having its ordinary 
present sense, and the latter that of being apprehended 
only by the intellect acting alone, without the senses. 
The distinction became later somewhat broken down, 
and finally Kant introduced the use of intelligible defined 
above. 
A real division of objects Into phenomena and noumena, 
and of the world into a sensible and intelligible world, is 
therefore quit* Inadmissible, although concepts may very 
well be divided into sensible and intelligible. No objects 
can be assigned to iioumena, nor can they be represented 
as objectively valid. . . . With all this, the concept of a 
noumenon, if taken as problematical only, remains not 
only admissible, but, as a concept to limit the sphere of 
sensibility, indispensable. In this case, however, it Is not 
a purely intelligible object for onr understanding, but an 
understanding to which it could belong is Itself a problem, 
if we ask how I could know an object not discursively by 
means of categories, but Intuitively, and yet in a non-sen- 
suous Intuition a process of which we could not under- 
stand even the bare possibility. ... If by purely intel- 
liyible objects we understand things which, without all 
schemata of sensibility, are thought by mere categories, 
such objects are simply impossible. 
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, tr. by Max Muller, II. 111. 
Intelligible form, In metaph. See form. Intelligible 
matter, in metaph., that which la distinguished as mat- 
ter by the understanding. 
Aristotle divides matter Into intelligible and sensible : 
and intelligible is that when in accidents or other simple 
things the mind distinguishes between material and for- 
mal. So letters are said to be the matter of words, words 
of speech. Burgtrsdicius, tr. by a Gentleman. 
Intelligible species. See species. = Syn. 1. Comprehen- 
sible, perspicuous, plain, clear. 
intelligibleness (in-tel'i-ji-bl-nes), n. The qual- 
ity of being intelligible; intelligibility. 
intelligibly (in-teri-ji-bli), adv. In an intelli- 
gible manner ; so as to be understood; clearly; 
plainly: as, to write or speak intelligibly. 
intemeratet (in-tem'e-rat), a. [= OF. i'ntemerc 
= Pg. It. intemerato, ( L. intemeratus, undeflled, 
< I'M- priv. + temeratus, pp. of temerare, defile: 
see temcration.] Pure; undefiled. 
The entire and internet-ate comeliness of virtues. 
Parthenein Sacra, Pr. A. Ulj. b: !&'. (Latham.) 
intemeratenesst (in-tem'e-rat-nes), n. The 
state of being intemerate, pure, or undefiled. 
intemperature 
They (letters] shall therefore ever keep the sincerity and 
intemcrateneia of the fountain whence they are derived. 
l*mne, Letters, x. 
intemperament (in-tem'per-a-ment), n. [= Pg. 
iiitimpiramento; as i-S + temperament.] A 
physically bad state or constitution. [Bare.] 
The inlcmprrament of the part ulcerated. Haney. 
intemperance (in-tem'per-ans), n. [= F. in- 
ti-ni/ii'i-iiiii'i: = Sp. intemperdncia = Pg. intempe- 
ranca = It. intempcrama, < L. intemperantia, 
want of mildness, inclemency (as of weather), 
want of moderation, excess (intemperantia vini, 
immoderate use of wine), insolence, arrogance, 
< inti nijii riin(l-)n, immoderate, given to excess, 
intemperate, incontinent, profligate: see intem- 
perant, temperance.] 1. The quality of being 
intemperate; lack of temperance or modera- 
tion ; immoderateness or excess in any kind of 
action ; excessive indulgence of any passion or 
appetite. 
Boundless intemperance 
In nature is a tyranny. Shak., Macbeth, IT. S, 07. 
God Is In every creature ; be cruel toward none, neither 
abuse any by intemperance. Jer. Taylor. 
Their fierce and irregular magnificence, their feverish 
and strenuous intemperance of rhetoric. 
Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 530. 
2. In a restricted sense, excessive indulgence 
in intoxicating drink ; habitual lack of temper- 
ance in drink, with or without actual drunken- 
ness. 
The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate 
drunkenness and intemperance by bringing a drunken man 
Into their company. Watts. 
intemperancyt (in-tem'per-an-si), n. Same as 
intemperance. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 619. 
intemperant (in-tem'per-ant), a. and n. [< L. 
intemperan(t-)n, ppr., intemperate, immoderate, 
given to excess, profligate, < in-, not, + tempe- 
ran(t-)s, ppr. of temperare: see temper, temper- 
ate.] I.t a. Intemperate. 
Soche as be intetnperaunt that Is, f oloersof their naugh- 
tle appetites and lustes. 
I' 'lull, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 15. 
IL n. One who is intemperate ; especially, 
one who uses alcoholic liquors intemperately. 
Dr. Richardson. 
intemperate (in-tem'per-at), a. [< ME. intem- 
perat = F. intempere = It. intcmpcrato, < L. 
intempcratus, untempered, inclement (of the 
weather), immoderate, excessive, < in- priv. + 
temperahis, tempered, moderatej temperate: 
see temperate.'} 1. Immoderate in conduct or 
action; not exercising or characterized by 
proper moderation : as, intemperate in labor or 
in zeal; intemperate in study. 
They understand It not, and think no such matter, but 
admire and dote upon worldly riches and honours, with 
an easie and intemnerat life. 
Milton, Church-Government, IL, ConcL 
2. In a restricted sense, immoderate in the 
use of intoxicating drink; given to excessive 
drinking. 3. Immoderate in measure or de- 
gree; excessive; inordinate; violent: as, intem- 
pera ^language; intempera reactions; uninfr-/- 
perate climate. 
The fitful philosophy and intemperate eloquence of Tul- 
ly. Summer, Orations, L 148. 
Intemperate habits, habitual and excessive Indulgence 
in the use of alcoholic drinks : In late, the habit of drink- 
ing to intoxication when occasion offers, sobriety or ab- 
stinence being the exception, atone, ]., in Tatum vs. 
State, 63 Ala., 152. 
intemperately (in-tem'per-at-li), adr. In an 
intemperate manner; immoderately; exces- 
sively. 
At little or rather less am I able to coerce the people 
at large, who behaved very unwisely and intemperately on 
that occasion. Burke, Conduct of the Minority. 
intemperatene88(in-tem'per-at-nes),H. 1. The 
state of being intemperate; want of modera- 
tion; excessive indulgence: as, the intemper- 
ate-ness of appetite or passion. 
For a Christian to excuse his intemperateneme by bis 
natural inclination, and to say I am borne cholericke, 
sullen, amorous, is an apology worse than the fault 
ftp. Hall, Heaven upon Earth, f 7. 
2f. Disturbance of atmospheric conditions; ex- 
cess of heat or cold. 
I am very well aware that divers diseases . . . may be 
rationally referred to manifest intemperateneste* at the 
air. Boyle, Works, V. 60. 
intemperaturet (in-tem'per-a-tur), n. [< OF. 
intemperature; < in- priv. + temperature, tem- 
perature: see temperature.] Intemperance; ex- 
The prince was layed vpon his bed bare beaded, In his 
ierkin, for the great heat and intemperatitre of the wea- 
ther. HaUuyft Voyages, IL 87. 
