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

aining 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 disbelief or denial of the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being. Atheism is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. R. Hall. Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. Shipley.

One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.

t ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.

With lively intelligence; intelligently. Looking brightly into the mother's face. Hawthorne.

Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott.

resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor.…

Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.

te of culture. The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does notJ. C. Shairp

s, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor. The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness. Macaulay.

aic] Bp. Barlow. --Ex`is*ten"tial*ly, adv. [Archaic] Existentially as well as essentially intelligent. Colerige.

Any degree or relative position in an order or series. The several gradations of the intelligent universe. I. Taylor.

Narrow and unintelligent conventionalism. -- Grun"dy*ist, n.

Without expression or meaning; not expressive; dull; unintelligent; as, an inexpressive countenance.

Having knowledge or insight; intelligent. [R.] Gaze on, with inscient vision, toward the sun. Mrs. Browning.

Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. Glanvill.