| 释义 |
† inˈtendible, a. Obs.
Forms: 5 en-, 7 in-. See also intendable.
[In sense 1, a. F. entendible (14th c. in Godef.) ‘conceiuable, intellegible, understandable’ (Cotgr.), f. entendre to understand, after a L. type *intendibilis; in sense 2, from juristic sense of L. intendĕre to aver, assert, maintain.]
1. Understandable, conceivable, intelligible.
1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. i. 1 The most playn and entendible langage. Ibid. (ad fin.), I hope..that it shal be entendyble & understanden to euery man.
2. Law. Capable of being averred or maintained.
1613Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 51 So a plea in a barre which is intendible at the Common Law cannot be maintained by a matter of custome or by Statute law. c1630in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 52 It is not intendible, that the Parliament should disadvantage themselves, in point of their priviledge. |