1. Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.
2. Possessed of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; marked by intelligence; as,
an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer.
3. Cognizant; aware; communicative. [Obs.]
Intelligent of seasons.
Milton.
Which are to France the spies and speculations
Intelligent of our state.
Shak. Syn. — Sensible; understanding. See Sensible.
Intelligential
(In*tel`li*gen"tial) a. [Cf. F. intelligentiel.] [R.]
1. Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential."
Milton.
2. Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal.
Food alike those pure
Intelligential substances require.
Milton. Intelligentiary
(In*tel`li*gen"tia*ry) n. One who gives information; an intelligencer. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Intelligently
(In*tel"li*gent*ly) adv. In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.
Intelligibility
(In*tel`li*gi*bil"i*ty) [Cf. F. intelligilibilité.] The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.
Intelligible
(In*tel"li*gi*ble) [L. intellegibilis: cf. F. intelligible. See Intelligent.] Capable of being understood
or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc.
The intelligible forms of ancient poets.
Coleridge. Syn. — Comprehensible; perspicuous; plain; clear.
Intelligibleness
(In*tel"li*gi*ble*ness), n. The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility. Locke.
Intelligibly
(In*tel"li*gi*bly), adv. In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to
write or speak intelligibly.
Intemerate
(In*tem"er*ate In*tem"er*a`ted) a. [L. intemeratus; pref. in- not + temeratus defiled.] Pure; undefiled.
[Obs.]
Intemerateness
(In*tem"er*ate*ness) n. The state of being unpolluted; purity. [Obs.] Donne.
Intemperament
(In*tem"per*a*ment) n. A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. [R.]
Harvey.
Intemperance
(In*tem"per*ance) n. [F. intempérance, L. intemperantia. See In- not, and Temperance.]
1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any
immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions.
God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance.
Jer. Taylor.
Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die,
By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more
In meats
and drinks.
Milton.
