intelligibleadj.n.

Brit.

/ɪnˈtɛlᵻdʒᵻbl/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈtɛlədʒəb(ə)l/

Forms:

α. Middle English intelligibil, Middle English– intelligible, 1500s intellygible, 1500s intellygyble, 1500s intilligible; Scottish pre-1700 intelligibil.

β. 1600s–1700s intellegable, 1700s intelligable.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French intelligible; Latin intelligibilis.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French intelligible (French intelligible ) capable of being apprehended only by the intellect and not by the senses (c1265 in Old French), capable of understanding, intelligent (although this sense is apparently first attested slightly later: beginning of the 15th cent.), capable of being understood (although this sense is first attested slightly later: 1521), or its etymon (ii) classical Latin intellegibilis, intelligibilis capable of appreciation by the mind, intellectual, in post-classical Latin also intelligent, understanding (Vetus Latina, Vulgate), perceptible by the intellect alone, conceptual (4th cent.) < intellegere to understand (see intelligent adj.) + -ibilis -ible suffix. Compare Catalan intel·ligible (14th cent.), Spanish inteligible , †intelligible (late 14th cent.), Portuguese inteligível (1510), Italian inteligibile (end of the 13th cent. in sense A. 2, first half of the 14th cent. in sense A. 3). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin intellegibilia (neuter plural) things which are intelligible (4th or 5th cent.).With the β. forms compare -able suffix.

A. adj.

†1. Capable of understanding; intelligent. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [adjective]

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nimbleOE

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well-feelinga1382

knowinga1398

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large?a1425

well-knowingc1425

of understanding1428

capax1432

sententiousc1440

well-wittedc1450

intellectual?a1475

clean1485

industriousc1487

intellective1509

cleanlyc1540

ingenious?a1560

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conceited1579

conceitful1594

intelligenced1596

dexter1597

ingenuous1598

intelligent1598

senseful1598

parted1600

thinking1605

dexterical1607

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solertic1623

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cunning1671

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perceptive1696

clever1716

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spiritual1807

bright1815

gnostic1819

knowledgeable1825

brainy1845

opulent1851

opening1872

super-cerebral1916

brainiac1976

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. vii. 23 The spirit of vnderstonding..alle thingus beholdende, and that taketh alle intelligible spiritis [a1425 L.V. able to vndurstonde: L. intelligibiles].

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure i. xii He must enclyne..to determine, And set his hert to be intelligible.

?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1584) ii. sig. Cvi^v The cell perceptible of my brain intelligible, was yet to grosse.

1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. G7^v A meere Scholler is an intelligible Asse.

1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 91 Come out Tom-Fool from behinde the hangings,..and put off your vizard, and be apert and intelligible.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. iii. 38 Plato supposeth the Universe..a living intelligible creature.

1694 R. Franck (title) Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland..together with..several curious and industrious Inspections, lineally drawn from Antiquaries and other noted and intelligible Persons.

1722 W. Blundel Let. 17 Jan. in I. Newton Corr. (1977) VII. 186 Those..may read at pleasure the great value of finding out the variation..and likewise the diligent search that..hath been made by severall great Mathematicians, the consideration of all which must needs make all intelligible men to believe the greatness of the value.

1744 in G. Sheldon Hist. Deerfield (Mass.) (1895) I. 535 A very Intellegable man about thirty years of age.

1777 E. Badlam in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1848) II. 49 The Mohawks are the most intelligible, as they live among the English in Caughnawaga.

2. Philosophy. Capable of being apprehended only by the intellect and not by the senses; objective to intellect. Opposed to sensible. Cf. intellectible adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > [adjective] > by intellect alone

intellectuala1398

intelligiblea1398

intellectible1557

intellective1644

epistemonicala1688

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [adjective] > of other doctrines and their adherents

intelligiblea1398

intellectualist1857

illuministic1860

noetic1882

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. ii. 59 An aungel..by resoun of þe spiritualte of his substaunce..perceyueþ in hymself al fourmes intelligibil.

a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1344/1 The sanctifying of the misticall sacrifice, and the translacion or chaunging of it from thynges sensible to thynges intelligible.

1578 T. Twyne tr. L. Daneau Wonderfull Woorkmanship of World xi. f. 25 They make two sortes of worldes, whereof the one is intelligible, Ideall, or as a patterne, which indeede subsisteth, but it is resident aboue this world: the other is earthly and figuratiue, which God hath created according to the representation and image of that spirituall and ideall worlde.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 18 Our mind..maketh up the conceivable or intelligible things out of the sensible.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 67 If intellect differ from true opinion, that which is intelligible differeth from that which is opinionable; and if so, there are intelligibles distinct from opinionables.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. i. 12 When we say the Intelligible world, the meaning is..a world of a nature purely spiritual and intellectual, and such as is not sensible, but intelligible only.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vii. 167 We substitute Things imaginable for Things intelligible, sensible Things for imaginable,..and greater things for such as are too small to be discerned distinctly.

1790 E. Sibly New & Compl. Illustr. Astrol. (new ed.) i. 52 If it speaks of things conversant in matter intelligible, but not sensible, as they are the abstracts of matter, it is named Mathematical, or Abstract Philosophy.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 54 The presumption of those who place sense above intelligence—who think that they can storm the Intelligible by the Sensible.

1893 Mind 2 313 The objects of experience being either sensible or intelligible, every object falling outside this list must be included under the object of reason.

1978 I. Kesarcodi-Watson & I. Kesarcodi-Watson tr. V. Lossky Orthodox Theol. ii. 62 This aeonic eternity is stable; it is what makes the world coherent and intelligible. Sensible and intelligible, time and aeon cling together, for, both having a beginning, they are commensurables.

2000 R. Polansky in J. J. Cleary & G. M. Gurtler Proc. Boston Area Colloquium in Anc. Philos. 15 82 The intelligible objects connected with sensible substances will either be the essences of such substances or attributes of them.

3. Capable of being understood; comprehensible.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > [adjective]

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intendable?1577

excogitable1592

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cognoscible1648

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cognizable1681

apprehensive1692

susceptible1694

tangible1709

apprehensible1715

pronounced1728

comprehendible1814

graspable1818

prehensiblea1832

prononcé1838

possible1864

receivable1865

unsmothered1891

readable1908

discriminable1946

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > [adjective] > of speech or speaker

intelligible1509

treatable1530

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xliii. 213 Whose fame renowmed is full openly..In flamynge tongues to be intellygyble.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 13 I hef vsit domestic scottis langage, maist intelligibil for the vlgare pepil.

1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 21^v Memory,..imprinting in it selfe al the Images and formes of visible & intelligible things, could not vtter them in time conuenient..vnlesse it had so ordered.

a1610 J. Healey in tr. Theophrastus Characters To Rdr., in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) The hardest wordes are made intelligiblest.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 81 Aidan, who naturally spoke Irish, was not intelligible of his English Congregation.

1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions xxxii An universal Character..easie to be written, yet intelligible in any Language.

1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned i. i. 11 Discourses..plain and intelligible to such unprejudicate minds.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iii. viii. 173 What you now say is very intelligible.

1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 58 A Rule of Action must be plain and intelligible.

1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music iii. 166 The verses were easy and..prosaic enough to be intelligible to the meanest capacity.

1809 M. Edgeworth Ennui xii, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 275 The news, of which she was the first, and not very intelligible enunciator.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 168 Calvin deemed that to render the people intelligent their instructor should be intelligible.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 194 The aim of our institutions is easily intelligible to any one.

1914 Times 13 July 9/3 It offers an adequate and intelligible explanation of the disaster, and attributes it to a human error.

1953 Radio Times 23 Jan. 19/2 There are many passages in the Bible, especially those about God and his dealings with man,..and if they are to be intelligible in the twentieth century they must be interpreted.

1975 K. Katzner Langs. of World ii. 257 The only language known to be related to Eskimo is the Aleut language of the Aleutian Islands. The two are not mutually intelligible, but there are sufficient similarities to indicate that they were a single language several thousand years ago.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 17 Aug. 133/1 His rap-schooled enunciation of Jamaican patois is so deliberate that his rhymes are often intelligible without much strain.

B. n.

That which is intelligible; an object of intellect or understanding; spec. (in Philosophy) that which is intelligible to the intellect alone and not the senses.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > [noun] > something intelligible

intelligible1597

intelligibility1610

knowable1652

cognoscible1683

intellectible1839

1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. iv. sig. C Co. Howe many elements are there. Lo. Two according to the contemplation of Chirurgerie, viz. simples or intilligibles & composed of sensibles.

1601 A. Gil Treat. conc. Trinitie 21 An Infinite intelligible, cannot bee conceiued of an Infinite intelligent, but by an Infinite intelligere.

1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 118 The Philosophy which is of incorporealls, and intelligibles, and immaterialls, and eternalls,..is firmly established.

1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. sig. Ssss2^v This divine Word..is it self the Image of God, the most ancient of all intelligibles, and next to the most High.

1744 Erskine tr. Trav. & Adventures Mademoiselle de Richelieu II. 97 In the wide Field of Intelligibles, appear some Parts which have been more cultivated than the rest... These Spots..make what we call the Arts and Sciences.

1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 44 The ancient theologists..affirmed that the soul was of a certain middle nature and condition between intelligibles and sensibles.

1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. I. 53 Draw off the mind from Sensible things and conduct them to Intelligibles.

1904 Classical Rev. 18 6/2 It employs no visible symbols..but intelligibles or ideas alone.

1944 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 12 252/2 Physics and all sciences are built upon intelligibles, the realities and truths within their own fields.

1991 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 42 26 At the same time there are intelligibles, the [Greek in text] which, to the bafflement of later commentators, are said to partake of the Ideas.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	intelligible
释义	intelligibleadj.n. Brit. /ɪnˈtɛlᵻdʒᵻbl/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtɛlədʒəb(ə)l/ Forms: α. Middle English intelligibil, Middle English– intelligible, 1500s intellygible, 1500s intellygyble, 1500s intilligible; Scottish pre-1700 intelligibil. β. 1600s–1700s intellegable, 1700s intelligable. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French intelligible; Latin intelligibilis. Etymology: < (i) Middle French intelligible (French intelligible ) capable of being apprehended only by the intellect and not by the senses (c1265 in Old French), capable of understanding, intelligent (although this sense is apparently first attested slightly later: beginning of the 15th cent.), capable of being understood (although this sense is first attested slightly later: 1521), or its etymon (ii) classical Latin intellegibilis, intelligibilis capable of appreciation by the mind, intellectual, in post-classical Latin also intelligent, understanding (Vetus Latina, Vulgate), perceptible by the intellect alone, conceptual (4th cent.) < intellegere to understand (see intelligent adj.) + -ibilis -ible suffix. Compare Catalan intel·ligible (14th cent.), Spanish inteligible , †intelligible (late 14th cent.), Portuguese inteligível (1510), Italian inteligibile (end of the 13th cent. in sense A. 2, first half of the 14th cent. in sense A. 3). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin intellegibilia (neuter plural) things which are intelligible (4th or 5th cent.).With the β. forms compare -able suffix. A. adj. †1. Capable of understanding; intelligent. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [adjective] keena1000 nimbleOE wittya1100 smeighc1200 understandingc1200 aperta1330 skillwisea1340 witted1377 intelligiblea1382 well-feelinga1382 knowinga1398 finec1400 large?a1425 well-knowingc1425 of understanding1428 capax1432 sententiousc1440 well-wittedc1450 intellectual?a1475 clean1485 industriousc1487 intellective1509 cleanlyc1540 ingenious?a1560 fine-headed1574 conceited1579 conceitful1594 intelligenced1596 dexter1597 ingenuous1598 intelligent1598 senseful1598 parted1600 thinking1605 dexterical1607 solert1612 apprehensivea1616 dexterous1622 solertic1623 intelligential1646 callent1656 cunning1671 thoughtful1674 perceptive1696 clever1716 uptaking1756 spiritual1807 bright1815 gnostic1819 knowledgeable1825 brainy1845 opulent1851 opening1872 super-cerebral1916 brainiac1976 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. vii. 23 The spirit of vnderstonding..alle thingus beholdende, and that taketh alle intelligible spiritis [a1425 L.V. able to vndurstonde: L. intelligibiles]. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure i. xii He must enclyne..to determine, And set his hert to be intelligible. ?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1584) ii. sig. Cvi^v The cell perceptible of my brain intelligible, was yet to grosse. 1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. G7^v A meere Scholler is an intelligible Asse. 1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 91 Come out Tom-Fool from behinde the hangings,..and put off your vizard, and be apert and intelligible. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. iii. 38 Plato supposeth the Universe..a living intelligible creature. 1694 R. Franck (title) Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland..together with..several curious and industrious Inspections, lineally drawn from Antiquaries and other noted and intelligible Persons. 1722 W. Blundel Let. 17 Jan. in I. Newton Corr. (1977) VII. 186 Those..may read at pleasure the great value of finding out the variation..and likewise the diligent search that..hath been made by severall great Mathematicians, the consideration of all which must needs make all intelligible men to believe the greatness of the value. 1744 in G. Sheldon Hist. Deerfield (Mass.) (1895) I. 535 A very Intellegable man about thirty years of age. 1777 E. Badlam in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1848) II. 49 The Mohawks are the most intelligible, as they live among the English in Caughnawaga. 2. Philosophy. Capable of being apprehended only by the intellect and not by the senses; objective to intellect. Opposed to sensible. Cf. intellectible adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > [adjective] > by intellect alone intellectuala1398 intelligiblea1398 intellectible1557 intellective1644 epistemonicala1688 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [adjective] > of other doctrines and their adherents intelligiblea1398 intellectualist1857 illuministic1860 noetic1882 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. ii. 59 An aungel..by resoun of þe spiritualte of his substaunce..perceyueþ in hymself al fourmes intelligibil. a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1344/1 The sanctifying of the misticall sacrifice, and the translacion or chaunging of it from thynges sensible to thynges intelligible. 1578 T. Twyne tr. L. Daneau Wonderfull Woorkmanship of World xi. f. 25 They make two sortes of worldes, whereof the one is intelligible, Ideall, or as a patterne, which indeede subsisteth, but it is resident aboue this world: the other is earthly and figuratiue, which God hath created according to the representation and image of that spirituall and ideall worlde. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 18 Our mind..maketh up the conceivable or intelligible things out of the sensible. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 67 If intellect differ from true opinion, that which is intelligible differeth from that which is opinionable; and if so, there are intelligibles distinct from opinionables. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. i. 12 When we say the Intelligible world, the meaning is..a world of a nature purely spiritual and intellectual, and such as is not sensible, but intelligible only. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vii. 167 We substitute Things imaginable for Things intelligible, sensible Things for imaginable,..and greater things for such as are too small to be discerned distinctly. 1790 E. Sibly New & Compl. Illustr. Astrol. (new ed.) i. 52 If it speaks of things conversant in matter intelligible, but not sensible, as they are the abstracts of matter, it is named Mathematical, or Abstract Philosophy. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 54 The presumption of those who place sense above intelligence—who think that they can storm the Intelligible by the Sensible. 1893 Mind 2 313 The objects of experience being either sensible or intelligible, every object falling outside this list must be included under the object of reason. 1978 I. Kesarcodi-Watson & I. Kesarcodi-Watson tr. V. Lossky Orthodox Theol. ii. 62 This aeonic eternity is stable; it is what makes the world coherent and intelligible. Sensible and intelligible, time and aeon cling together, for, both having a beginning, they are commensurables. 2000 R. Polansky in J. J. Cleary & G. M. Gurtler Proc. Boston Area Colloquium in Anc. Philos. 15 82 The intelligible objects connected with sensible substances will either be the essences of such substances or attributes of them. 3. Capable of being understood; comprehensible. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > [adjective] understandinga1382 sensiblea1393 knowablea1425 perceivablec1443 takablec1449 understandablec1475 intendible1489 intentiblea1492 intelligible1509 facile1531 level1559 discernable1561 receptible1574 intendable?1577 excogitable1592 penetrable1594 comprehensible1598 scrutablec1604 distinguishable1611 discernible1616 perviousa1631 fathomable1633 cognoscible1648 colligible1650 determinable1658 intelligent1676 cognizable1681 apprehensive1692 susceptible1694 tangible1709 apprehensible1715 pronounced1728 comprehendible1814 graspable1818 prehensiblea1832 prononcé1838 possible1864 receivable1865 unsmothered1891 readable1908 discriminable1946 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > [adjective] > of speech or speaker intelligible1509 treatable1530 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xliii. 213 Whose fame renowmed is full openly..In flamynge tongues to be intellygyble. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 13 I hef vsit domestic scottis langage, maist intelligibil for the vlgare pepil. 1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 21^v Memory,..imprinting in it selfe al the Images and formes of visible & intelligible things, could not vtter them in time conuenient..vnlesse it had so ordered. a1610 J. Healey in tr. Theophrastus Characters To Rdr., in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) The hardest wordes are made intelligiblest. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 81 Aidan, who naturally spoke Irish, was not intelligible of his English Congregation. 1663 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Names & Scantlings Inventions xxxii An universal Character..easie to be written, yet intelligible in any Language. 1679 J. Goodman Penitent Pardoned i. i. 11 Discourses..plain and intelligible to such unprejudicate minds. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iii. viii. 173 What you now say is very intelligible. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 58 A Rule of Action must be plain and intelligible. 1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music iii. 166 The verses were easy and..prosaic enough to be intelligible to the meanest capacity. 1809 M. Edgeworth Ennui xii, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 275 The news, of which she was the first, and not very intelligible enunciator. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 168 Calvin deemed that to render the people intelligent their instructor should be intelligible. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 194 The aim of our institutions is easily intelligible to any one. 1914 Times 13 July 9/3 It offers an adequate and intelligible explanation of the disaster, and attributes it to a human error. 1953 Radio Times 23 Jan. 19/2 There are many passages in the Bible, especially those about God and his dealings with man,..and if they are to be intelligible in the twentieth century they must be interpreted. 1975 K. Katzner Langs. of World ii. 257 The only language known to be related to Eskimo is the Aleut language of the Aleutian Islands. The two are not mutually intelligible, but there are sufficient similarities to indicate that they were a single language several thousand years ago. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 17 Aug. 133/1 His rap-schooled enunciation of Jamaican patois is so deliberate that his rhymes are often intelligible without much strain. B. n. That which is intelligible; an object of intellect or understanding; spec. (in Philosophy) that which is intelligible to the intellect alone and not the senses. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > [noun] > something intelligible intelligible1597 intelligibility1610 knowable1652 cognoscible1683 intellectible1839 1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. iv. sig. C Co. Howe many elements are there. Lo. Two according to the contemplation of Chirurgerie, viz. simples or intilligibles & composed of sensibles. 1601 A. Gil Treat. conc. Trinitie 21 An Infinite intelligible, cannot bee conceiued of an Infinite intelligent, but by an Infinite intelligere. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 118 The Philosophy which is of incorporealls, and intelligibles, and immaterialls, and eternalls,..is firmly established. 1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. sig. Ssss2^v This divine Word..is it self the Image of God, the most ancient of all intelligibles, and next to the most High. 1744 Erskine tr. Trav. & Adventures Mademoiselle de Richelieu II. 97 In the wide Field of Intelligibles, appear some Parts which have been more cultivated than the rest... These Spots..make what we call the Arts and Sciences. 1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 44 The ancient theologists..affirmed that the soul was of a certain middle nature and condition between intelligibles and sensibles. 1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. I. 53 Draw off the mind from Sensible things and conduct them to Intelligibles. 1904 Classical Rev. 18 6/2 It employs no visible symbols..but intelligibles or ideas alone. 1944 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 12 252/2 Physics and all sciences are built upon intelligibles, the realities and truths within their own fields. 1991 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 42 26 At the same time there are intelligibles, the [Greek in text] which, to the bafflement of later commentators, are said to partake of the Ideas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1382
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