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Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.

To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize. Sentiment is intellectualized emotion. Lowell.

In an intellectual manner.

The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser.

One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.

Informing; giving information; talebearing. [Obs.] Shak. That sad intelligencing tyrant. Milton.

Intelligence. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton.

One who gives information; an intelligencer. [Obs.] Holinshed.

In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.

The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.

Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc. The intelligible forms of ancient poets. Coleridge.

The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility. Locke.

In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.

Between or among the stars; as, interstellar space. Bacon.

Interstellar.

The European cricket warbler.

A silk or woolen vestment without sleeves worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court. It has a low collar, is fastened in front, and reaches almost to the knees.

A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.