单词 | intelligencing |
释义 | intelligencingn. Now chiefly historical. The action or process of obtaining or passing on intelligence or information; the work of an intelligencer. ΚΠ 1792 Fortnights Ramble through London 58 Her propensity for intelligencing and tale-bearing. 1857 ‘Thomas of Swarraton’ Noble Traytour III. xiii. 180 Then were there whispering and intelligencing by notable signs, mysterious looks and quaint cant terms passing among the employed. 1871 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 587/1 A scout detached for intelligencing purposes. 1902 M. A. Lane Level of Social Motion x. 433 In ancient Rome this quick intelligencing would have been impossible. 1960 Science 14 Oct. 10101/1 It comes almost as a warming refreshment when one or another of those writing to Newton goes beyond the bounds of strict scientific intelligencing. 2004 P. Arblaster Antwerp & World v. 103 His intelligencing was now of far less general importance than it had been in the fifteen-nineties. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † intelligencingadj. Obsolete. 1. That conveys intelligence or information; that acts as an intelligencer. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > action of informing > [adjective] informatory?a1475 copiousa1500 informing1581 intelligentiary1590 intelligencing1595 informative1646 intelligential1820 informational1821 instructional1832 telling1834 factful1842 facty1871 FYI1973 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [adjective] intelligencing1595 under-cover1920 1595 A. Bacon Let. 30 Mar. in W. H. Dixon Personal Hist. Ld. Bacon (1861) 374 Beware in anywise of the Lord H. [sc. Howard]! He is a dangerous intelligencing man. 1608 G. Chapman Conspiracie Duke of Byron ii. sig. C4 You much wrong me To thinke me an intelligencing Lord. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. iii. 69 A most intelligencing bawd. View more context for this quotation a1711 T. Ken Edmund vi, in Wks. (1721) II. 160 Happy the Prince..Who is omniscient in his Royal sphere, By a diffus'd intelligencing Ear. 1819 C. Lloyd Nugæ Canoræ (ed. 3) 208 Oh, blessed thou, who thus hast power to impress With sweet intelligencing looks and speech. 1895 H. C. Beeching In Garden & Other Poems 18 Th'intelligencing current thrills From each to each the thought love wills. 2. That acts in an intelligent or rational way. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > [adjective] > exercising reason reasonablec1400 rational1598 fair1603 sober1638 intelligencing1658 unperverse1665 open1672 wise-like1816 sane1843 1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 76 Begetting harmony to emulate What the Intelligencing Spirits create By motion of the Spheres. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1792adj.1595 |
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