The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intelligibly \In*tel"li*gi*bly\, adv. In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.
Wiktionary
adv. In an intelligible manner.
WordNet
adv. in an intelligible manner; "the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly" [syn: clearly, understandably] [ant: unintelligibly]
Usage examples of "intelligibly".
The whole middle expanse of Asia was not academically conquered for Orientalism until, during the later eighteenth century, Anquetil-Duperron and Sir William Jones were able intelligibly to reveal the extraordinary riches of Avestan and Sanskrit.
Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, if not from that of Buffon himself, that the majority of organs are as purposive to the evolutionist as to the theologian, and far more intelligibly so.
He had made the Macassar voyage, wore a kris, and spoke the Bugis Malay intelligibly enough.
Hardy had brought up perhaps thirty examples of accidents at the Port, large or small, that might have been attributed to faulty equipment, but Mr Lowitz, when he answered intelligibly at all, had an alternate interpretation for every mishap.
It was, he suggested, just a way of dramatising the fact that there was a minimal act of faith involved in assuming that the world of appearances was intelligibly connected with things as they were.
If I have reported the behaviour of the House intelligibly, the reader has been surprised by it, and has wondered whence these law-makers come and what they are made of.
They heard Cleary's voice carrying on a one-sided conversation with the saviors of the mission, who carried no radios and whose words could not be heard intelligibly over Cleary's throat microphone.