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1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xi. xiii. f. 172/1 Wherefore God infuseth all vertues, through the soule of the worlde, yet by a peculiar vertue, of Images and ruling intelligencies.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 7 The motion and light are in the superiour bodies, the instruments of the intelligencies and of the heauens.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila sig. A4^v Super-cœlestials are Intelligencies, altogether Spiritual and Immortal.

1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 88 The very Angels..those bright Intelligencies, glorious Ministers of the Court of Heaven.

1796 D. Kellogg Nat., Obligation & Importance Christian Compassion 10 Various ranks of intelligencies exist in the heavenly world.

a1844 R. Balmer Lect. & Disc. (1845) II. 113 Heaven, the dwelling place of incorporeal intelligencies.

1865 B. North Ourselves (1866) 101 Every created intelligency must have answered, ‘No one’.

1923 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 108 179/1 Some of us are tempted to look upon that community [sc. the business community] as being composed, not of practical intelligencies, but of incurable romantics with no sense of world realities.

1970 V. S. Alder Fifth Dimension (rev. ed.) i. 11 A serious student of Meditation seeks to build up his glands..so that they can become good recipients of the forces and intelligencies which play through the ether nuclei behind them.

1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques 74 To permit no banquets, assemblies, intelligencies, nor any like thing.

1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy ii. iii. sig. E2 This is a parcell of Intelligency Our Courtiers were caside-vp for?

1648 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Late Warres viii. 260 These allegations..had at this time given some signes of the Dukes no great good affected intelligency with the Swedes.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iii. ii. 183 (note) From Flocks, Herds, and other natural Assemblages..to human Intelligencys and Correspondencys.

?1777 tr. A. L. de Bonnières Memorial 34 Before the loss of the 1300l. sterling, and after the success of the private transaction..it was necessary still further to secure my good intelligencies, by making me a present.

1623 J. Hayward Davids Teares (new ed.) 109 She hath a thousand treacherous intelligencies within our owne bosome, which await but hower and occasion to surprise vs.

1675 Earl of Essex Lett. (1770) 32 I give you thanks for the divers intelligencies you send me.

1707 M.-C. d'Aulnoy Mem. Court Eng. i. xxvi. 219 I should have been over-joy'd if good Chance, and the Intelligencies of Love, would have brought her to this place.

1663 W. Clark Marciano i. v. 9 I have been at much pains and labour in educating him, I may say, ever since his pubertie: but now that he is come to the years of intelligency, I have given him over.

1722 T. Morgan Let. to Rev. Dr. Waterland 19 'Tis plainly impossible to have any Notion or Idea of Humanity, or Human Nature, without including the Ideas of Human Intelligency, and Human Agency.

1785 ‘Philanthropos’ Theol. Converse 67 The divine power, or principle, (which upon the entrance of sin into the human intelligency, withheld its potent influx).

1871 R. Browning Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau 42 Omniscience with intelligency.

1928 Times 20 Jan. 9/2 The ‘good news’ is that God is an In-dwelling Spirit in man, operating in the world, and slowly overcoming resistance through the growing consciences, intelligencies, and wills of men.

2006 R. Rieser in M. Cole Educat., Equality & Human Rights (ed. 2) vii. 148 Doctors who..subscribed to bogus theories, such as that someone's intelligency could be determined by their head shape and size.