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intelligible(dictionary)

intelligible (iou)



intelligible adjective & noun. LME.
[Latin intellegibilis, intelli-, from intellegere: see INTELLIGENT, -IBLE.]
A. adjective.
Capable of understanding; intelligent. LME-L18.
T. Gale Plato supposeth the Universe..a living intelligible creature.
Philosophy. Able to be apprehended only by the understanding, not by the senses. Opp. SENSIBLE adjective 1. LME.
J. Norris The Intelligible world,..of a nature purely spiritual and intellectual,..not sensible, but intelligible only.
Able to be understood; comprehensible. E16.
H. James I can give no intelligible account of how I fought out the interval. I. A. Richards Most of the difficult and obscure points about the structures of the arts..become easily intelligible.
b. noun. That which is intelligible; an object of understanding. E17.
intelligi'bility noun L17.
intelligibleness noun E17.
intelligibly adverb E17.