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intelligibly, adv.|ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒɪblɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ly2. (Cf. late L. intellegibiliter, Augustine.)]
1. In an intelligible manner; so as to be capable of being understood; comprehensibly.
1607E. Grimstone tr. Goulart's Mem. Hist. 434 The Maide talked plainly and intelligibly with her. 1711Addison Spect. No. 165 ⁋6 When he writes for Money he knows how to speak intelligibly enough. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II. xlvii. 344 Do not many head lands, shoals, islands, speak most intelligibly to us, and say, we are but remnants of lands, rudely torn from other shores? 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 708 They..drew up a paper in which they very intelligibly hinted that this was their wish.
†2. In relation to the understanding; as an object of intellect. (Opp. to sensibly; cf. intelligible A. 3.) Obs.
1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 2 There are many things intelligible, which are not sensible; as time does, every article of it, intelligibly pass away, not sensibly. 1701Norris Ideal World i. i. 8 By the Ideal world I understand that world which is intelligibly what this is sensibly, the eternal model and exemplar of all created essence. |