What is "intelligible"

Usage examples of "intelligible".

Further, admitting that there is an Intelligible Realm beyond, of which this world is an image, then, since this world-compound is based on Matter, there must be Matter there also.

I observed that individual children, born totally deaf, preferred, even in conversation with one another, and when ignorant of the fact that I was observing them, the articulate words just learned, although these were scarcely intelligible, to their own signs.

Intelligibles, have set as it were a footprint there but must still advance within the realm--lasts until they reach the extreme hold of the place, the Term attained when the topmost peak of the Intellectual realm is won.

She was blubbering, and her broken sentences were scarcely intelligible anyway.

In any event his fingers danced around his hands like agitated medusae and the translator chirped and whined and burbled in an increasing tempo with fewer and fewer intelligible words.

Before the Deity created any Ideal, any limited and intelligible Nature, or any form whatever, He was alone, and without form or similitude, and there could be no cognition or comprehension of Him in any wise.

But after He had formed this Idea, the particular conception, limited and intelligible, which the Ten Numerations are, of the medium of transmission, Adam Kadmon, the Primal or Supreme Man, He by that medium descended, and may, through that Idea, be called by the name IHUH, and so created things have cognizance of Him, by means of His proper likeness.

Maurice Ferre, more stable than Joe Carollo, more intelligible than Demetrio Perez and more energetic than Miller Dawkins and J.

I began to consider of the intelligible effect of honest loue, and withall of the cleerenes of the skies, the sweete and milde aire, the delightfull site, the pleasant countrie, the green grasse decked with diuersity of flowers, the faire hils adorned with thicke woods, the quiet time, fresh windes, and fruitfull place, beautifully enriched with diffluent streames, sliding downe the moist vallies betwixt the crooked hils in their grauelled channels, and into the next seas with a continued course softly vnlading themselues.

Other serums made the victim so groggy that much of what was said was not intelligible.

On the day after next, just as we were sitting down to dinner, the marchioness smilingly gave me a letter which Possano had written her in bad but perfectly intelligible French.

Since your bum hole has never learned to make intelligible speech, we must keep your tongue unfettered for the rest of your tale.

The Italian checked him by saying that their discourse must be conducted in a language intelligible to the lady, and I agreed with him.

If so, I despair of your making your meaning intelligible to a poor fellow wallowing, like me, in the Hylic Borboros--or whatever else you may choose to call the unfortunate fact of being flesh and blood.

The only idea intelligible to the majority was a juristic and political notion, viz.