Found 1 items, similar to Intelligence office.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Intelligence office Intelligence \In*tel"li*gence\, n. [F. intelligence, L. intelligentia, intellegentia. See Intelligent.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding. [1913 Webster] 2. The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. [1913 Webster] And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. Information communicated; news; notice; advice. [1913 Webster] Intelligence is given where you are hid. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] I write as he that none intelligence Of meters hath, ne flowers of sentence. --Court of Love. [1913 Webster] 6. An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The great Intelligences fair That range above our mortal state, In circle round the blessed gate, Received and gave him welcome there. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 7. (Mil.) The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy. [PJC] Intelligence office, an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired. Syn: Understanding; intellect; instruction; advice; notice; notification; news; information; report. [1913 Webster]