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[ad. L. intelligentia: see intelligence and -ency.]
1. = intelligence n. 1.
1871Browning Pr. Hohenst. 598 Omniscience with intelligency.
2. = intelligence n. 4.
1652Benlowes Theoph. Pref., Super-cœlestials are Intelligencies altogether Spiritual and Immortal. 1720Waterland Eight Serm. 88 The very Angels..those bright Intelligencies, glorious Ministers of the Court of Heaven. a1844R. Balmer Lect. & Disc. (1845) II. 113 Heaven, the dwelling place of incorporeal intelligencies. 1865Brownlow North Ourselves (1866) 101 Every created intelligency must have answered, ‘No one’.
†3. = intelligence n. 5. Obs.
1598J. D. tr. Le Roy's Aristotles Politiqves 74 To permit no banquets, assemblies, intelligencies, nor any like thing. 1711Shaftesbury Misc. Refl. iii. ii. note, From Flocks, Herds, and other natural Assemblages..to human Intelligencys and Correspondencys.
†4. = intelligence n. 7 b. Obs.
1675Earl of Essex Lett. (1770) 32, I give you thanks for the divers intelligencies you send me. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. xxvi. 181 He cannot come at these intelligencies fairly. |