Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 56

Intelligence (n.) Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.

Intelligence (n.) An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.

Intelligencer (n.) One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger.

Intelligencing (a.) Informing; giving information; talebearing.

Intelligency (n.) Intelligence.

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

Intelligent (a.) Possessed of intelligence, education, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; marked by intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer.

Intelligent (a.) Gognizant; aware; communicate.

Intelligential (a.) Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual.

Intelligential (a.) Consisting of unembodied mind; incorporeal.

Intelligentiary (n.) One who gives information; an intelligencer.

Intelligently (adv.) In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.

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

Intelligible () Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc.

Intelligibleness (n.) The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility.

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

Intemerate (a.) Alt. of Intemerated

Intemerated (a.) Pure; undefiled.

Intemerateness (n.) The state of being unpolluted; purity.

Intemerament (n.) A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part.

Intemperance (n.) 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.

Intemperance (n.) Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.

Intemperancy (n.) Intemperance.

Intemperant (a.) Intemperate.

Intemperate (a.) Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion.

Intemperate (a.) Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.

Intemperate (a.) Excessive; ungovernable; inordinate; violent; immoderate; as, intemperate language, zeal, etc.; intemperate weather.

Intemperate (v. t.) To disorder.

Intemperately (adv.) In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint.

Intemperateness (n.) The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.

Intemperateness (n.) Severity of weather; inclemency.

Intemperature (n.) Intemperateness.

Intempestive (a.) Out of season; untimely.

Intempestively (adv.) Unseasonably.

Intempestivity (n.) Unseasonableness; untimeliness.

Intenable (a.) Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress.

Intended (imp. & p. p.) of Intend

Intending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intend

Intend (v. t.) To stretch' to extend; to distend.

Intend (v. t.) To strain; to make tense.

Intend (v. t.) To intensify; to strengthen.

Intend (v. t.) To apply with energy.

Intend (v. t.) To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey.

Intend (v. t.) To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard.

Intend (v. t.) To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain.

Intend (v. t.) To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold.

Intend (v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.

Intendancies (pl. ) of Intendancy

Intendancy (n.) The office or employment of an intendant.

Intendancy (n.) A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.

Intendant (n.) One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.

Intendant (a.) Attentive.

Intended (a.) Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.

Intended (a.) Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help.

Intended (a.) Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.

Intended (n.) One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an affianced lover.

Intendedly (adv.) Intentionally.

Intendent (n.) See Intendant, n.

Intender (n.) One who intends.

Intendiment (n.) Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding.

Intendment (n.) Charge; oversight.

Intendment (n.) Intention; design; purpose.

Intendment (n.) The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument.

Intenerated (imp. & p. p.) of Intenerate

Intenerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intenerate

Intenerate (a.) To make tender or sensitive; to soften.

Intenerate (a.) Made tender or soft; softened.

Inteneration (n.) The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening.

Intenible (a.) Incapable of holding or containing.

Intensated (imp. & p. p.) of Intensate

Intensating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intensate

Intensate (v. t.) To intensify.

Intensation (n.) The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax.

Intensative (a.) Adding intensity; intensifying.

Intense (a.) Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

Intense (a.) Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as: (a) Ardent; fervent; as, intense heat. (b) Keen; biting; as, intense cold. (c) Vehement; earnest; exceedingly strong; as, intense passion or hate. (d) Very severe; violent; as, intense pain or anguish. (e) Deep; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light.

Intensely (adv.) Intently.

Intensely (adv.) To an extreme degree; as, weather intensely cold.

Intenseness (n.) The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought.

Intensification (n.) The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

Intensifier (n.) One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.

Intensified (imp. & p. p.) of Intensify

Intensifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intensify

Intensify (v. t.) To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

Intensify (v. i.) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

Intension (n.) A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.

Intension (n.) Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency.

Intension (n.) The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; -- opposed to extension, extent, or sphere.

Intensitive (a.) Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive; as, the intensitive words of a sentence.

Intensity (n.) The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

Intensity (n.) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.

Intensity (n.) The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch.

Intensity (n.) The degree or depth of shade in a picture.

Intensive (a.) Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.

Intensive (a.) Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense.

Intensive (a.) Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb or preposition.

Intensive (n.) That which intensifies or emphasizes; an intensive verb or word.

Intensively (adv.) In an intensive manner; by increase of degree.

Intensiveness (n.) The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

Intent (a.) Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

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