1.The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
2.The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. "And dimmed with darkness their intelligence."
3.Information communicated; news; notice; advice. "Intelligence is given where you are hid."
4.Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. (Obs.) "He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites."
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. "I write as he that none intelligence Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence."
6.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."
7.(Mil.) The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.
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