intelligencern.

1540 T. Wyatt Let. 2 Apr. in Life & Lett. (1963) v. 157 I dare well say the Intelligensirs penetrate no furder then the comon bruyte.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Q3^v The hellish detested Iudas name of an Intelligencer.

1644 King Charles I in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 317 Wee desire you to keep forth Scouts and Intelligencers to give you timely advertisement, if he shall advance Westward.

1658 F. Osborne Advice to Son (1673) 85 It is an Office unbecoming a Gentleman to be an Intelligencer, which in real truth is no better than a Spie.

1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 444 He has no diplomatic character whatever, but is to receive eight thousand livres a year, as an intelligencer.

1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France ii, in Wks. (1808) VIII. 241 All the spies, all the intelligencers, actually or late in function.

1824 J. Nichols Calvinism & Armin. ii. 461 This letter..was taken before the Close Committee of Parliament, by whose directions Dr. Featly was arrested as a spy and intelligencer.

1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. i. 68 He was all-sufficient as a spy and intelligencer.

1932 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 15 216 Colonel Bampfield, who had figured in Thurloe's list of intelligencers and repeatedly expressed his willingness to serve Arlington and later Jenkins, obtained £50 from the former.

1984 M. Gentle Golden Witchbreed iii. x. 122 The last time we met, I was—a little formal, perhaps. Not because of yourself, envoy; but I dislike the company of grubby intelligencers.

2008 P. Satia Spies in Arabia iv. 143 Intelligencers played a greater role in these campaigns ‘than in any other campaign of the First World War’.

1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander i. xix. f. 28^v They secretly in the night aduertised Antigone by their intelligencers, that they would deliuer Alcete alyue or dead.

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 6) 1215 He [sc. Noah] sends out his Intelligencers, the Raven and the Dove.

1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 21 Think ye, that those ministring Angels who are called Intelligencers, give them no intelligence?

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 427. ⁋2 The many Stories which every Body furnishes her with..make her the general Intelligencer of the Town of all that can be said by one Woman against another.

1780 W. Cowper Let. 10 Dec. (1979) I. 419 My Intelligencer with respect to Lady Cowper's Legacy proved to be mistaken.

1829 London Lit. Gaz. 9 May 299/2 By the aid of a female attendant, who acted as an intelligencer, she had made herself mistress of all that was heard, said, or suspected, concerning..the Baronness Hermione.

1863 P. Ruysdale Pilgrimage over Prairies II. 3 Bryce and I eagerly followed our intelligencer to assure ourselves of the truth of his report.

1948 D. Stimson Scientists & Amateurs vi. 108 The Royal Society was taking over the work of the earlier intelligencers, like Hartlib.

1994 Sci. Amer. Dec. 96/2 Foremost among the areas in which nasa might have learned a great deal from the intelligencers is the case of the Hubble Space Telescope.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. v. sig. R3 Whose eyes (being his diligent intelligencers) coulde carrie vnto him no other newes, but discomfortable.

1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia i. iii. 13 The Nerves..are the Intelligencers and way of conveyance untill they come into the moveable parts.

1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 76 Oliver's Nose was no doubt a wonderful intelligencer.

1775 E. Hargrove Hist. Knaresborough (new ed.) ii. 99 The subscription book to this library is of great use as an intelligencer to know what company are at the place.

1878 E. Dowden Stud. Lit. 247 The avenues between the senses and the imagination are traversed to and fro by swift and secret intelligencers.

1999 Oxf. Compan. to Irish Hist. 179 The use of the ethnic repertory as an intelligencer of political sentiment entailed a remarkable degree of cultural stasis, by which ‘Irish music’ and ‘folk melody’ were judged to be synonymous.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 145/2 Gazzettiere, an intelligencer or such as have daily occurrences.

1632 W. Watts (title) The Swedish Intelligencer.

1641 R. Brathwait (title) Mercurius Britannicus: or, the English Intelligencer.

1659 (title) The Parliamentary Intelligencer.

1728 Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 89 Desire her to shew it to the author of the Intelligencer, and to print it if he thinks fit.

1769 Public Advertiser 18 May 4/2 Thy Paper is the Macarony Intelligencer.

1801 F. Barrett (title) The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer; being a complete system of Occult Philosophy.

1859 J. Downing My 30 years out of Senate liv. 268 We undertake to say positively that these letters in the Intelligencer are something of humbugs.

1902 W. D. Howells Kentons i. 10 The interview that resulted in the Intelligencer was the least evil that came of this error.

1989 New Scientist 18 Mar. 72/1 Our local intelligencer, the Cambridge Evening News, presents us with the insights..of that justly renowned cosmic analyst..Russell Grant.

1999 London Student 24 Feb. 6/3 A new regular monthly evening for skeptics in London has been created by Dr. Scott Campbell..in conjunction with..The Skeptical Intelligencer and The Skeptic magazine.