† inˈtelligencing, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. intelligence v. or n. + -ing2.]
1. Conveying intelligence or information; playing the intelligencer or spy.
| 1608 Chapman Byron's Consp. ii. Plays 1873 II. 203 You much wrong me To thinke me an intelligencing instrument. 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. ii. iii. 68 A most intelligencing bawd. a 1711 Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 160 Happy the Prince..Who is omniscient in his Royal sphere, By a diffus'd intelligencing Ear. |
2. Acting as an ‘intelligence’: cf. quot. 1685 s.v. intelligence n. 4.
| 1669 Cokaine Poems, Elegie Eliz. Reppington 76 Begetting harmony to emulate What the Intelligencing Spirits create By motion of the Spheres. |