Intelligencing
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act of trading in information; serving as a go-between, diplomat, organizer, or spy. countable, uncountable
"Intelligencing for personal profit, albeit through the service of the crown, could call the agent's allegiance into question."
- 2 The exercise of intelligence; The manifestation of sentience or intellect. countable, uncountable
"As a necessary consequence of this pure spirituality and absolute independence of the angelic nature of all material aid or instrument for its operation, St. Thomas argues that the intellect of the angel, as regards whatever comes within the range of its natural knowledge, is always in the act of intelligencing, and can never be found in the state of potentiality."
- 1 Giving information; talebearing. not-comparable, obsolete
"that sad intelligencing tyrant"
Example
More examples"Hence with her, out o' door: A most intelligencing bawd!"
Etymology
From intelligence + -ing.
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