n.
    - the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.
 - a person with this ability.
 - the gathering of information of military or political value. 
▸information gathered in this way.
 - archaic news.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    
      - intelligential adj. (archaic).
 
    
   
  Etymology
  ME: via OFr. from L. intelligentia, from intelligere ‘understand’, var. of intellegere ‘understand’, from inter ‘between’ + legere ‘choose’.