WITNESS / 99
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 99
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE IMAGE WAS CHECKED.
The e-rara page image was directly inspected. It verifies a contextual 1704 use of Intelligence for official information or reports; it is not an INTELLIGENCE headword, is not claimed as the earliest occurrence, and does not prove the mental-capacity sense or deeper ancestry.
Present-Day English1704established
intelligence
The PAPER-OFFICE entry in John Harris’s Lexicon technicum includes Letters of Intelligence among official papers communicated to the King’s Council.
“Instructions for Foreign Ministers, Letters of Intelligence, and many other Publick Papers”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Printed book
- YEAR
- 1704
- LOCATOR
- Image [600], left column, PAPER-OFFICE entry; e-rara content image 2867664
- REPOSITORY
- ETH-Bibliothek Zürich
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Rar 98 Ex.A GF, content image 2867664
- FACSIMILE
- Linked below
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- Yes
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERintelligence ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 80 ↗
NAMED SOURCELexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences ↗OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
INSPECTED FACSIMILEOPEN OBJECT ↗
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REPEATABLE VISUAL REVIEW
THE INSPECTION LEDGER
OBSERVED FORMIntelligence
“Instructions for Foreign Ministers, Letters of Intelligence, and many other Publick Papers”
- INSPECTION DATE
- 2026-08-26
- METHOD
- visual facsimile
- INSPECTOR ROLE
- SET-U editorial review
- EXACT LOCATOR
- Image [600], left column, PAPER-OFFICE entry; e-rara content image 2867664
- CLAIM LIMIT
- Verifies a contextual use of Intelligence for official information or reports in 1704. It does not establish an INTELLIGENCE headword, the earliest occurrence, the mental-capacity sense, or the deeper ancestry.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciences
- AUTHOR
- John Harris
- YEAR
- 1704
- PUBLISHER
- Printed for Dan. Brown et al.
- SOURCE TYPE
- digitized primary source
- CITATION KEY
- erara-harris-lexicon-1704