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intelligible, a. (n.)|ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒɪb(ə)l|
[f. L. intellegi-, intelligibil-is, f. intellegĕre to understand + -ible.]
†1. Capable of understanding; able to understand; intelligent. Obs.
1382Wyclif Wisd. vii. 23 The spirit of vnderstonding..alle thingus beholdende, and that taketh alle intelligible spiritis [1388 able to vndurstonde: Vulg. intelligibiles]. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. i. xii, He must enclyne..to determine, And set his hert to be intelligible. a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 124 A meere Scholer is an intelligible Asse. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 38 Plato supposeth the Universe..a living intelligible creature. 1744in G. Sheldon Hist. Deerfield (Mass.) (1895) I. 535 A very Intellegable man about thirty years of age. 1777E. Badlam in New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1848) II. 49 The Mohawks are the most intelligible, as they live among the English in Caughnawaga.
2. Capable of being understood; that may be apprehended by the intellect; comprehensible.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xliii. (Percy Soc.) 211 Whose fame renowmed is ful openly..In flamynge tongues to be intellygyble. 1549Compl. Scot. To Rdr. 16, I hef vsit domestic scottis langage, maist intelligibil for the vlgare pepil. a1610Healey Theophrastus (1636) To Rdr., The hardest wordes are made intelligiblest. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. iii. §8 What you say now is very intelligible. 1754Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 58 A Rule of Action must be plain and intelligible. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 194 The aim of our institutions is easily intelligible to any one.
b. Of a person in reference to his words.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. ii. §73 Aidan, who naturally spoke Irish, was not intelligible of his English Congregation. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 105 Calvin deemed that to render the people intelligent their instructor should be intelligible. Mod. He spoke so fast as to be hardly intelligible. He is not a very intelligible writer.
3. Philos. Capable of being apprehended only by the understanding (not by the senses); objective to intellect. (Opp. to sensible.) (Cf. intellectible.)
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. ii. (Add. MS. 27944), An aungel, by resoun of þe spiritualte of his substaunce perceyueþ in hymself al fourmes intelligibil. 1534More Treat. on Passion Wks. 1344/1 The sanctifying of the misticall sacrifice, and the translacion or chaunging of it from thynges sensible to thynges intelligible. 1638F. Junius Paint. of Ancients 18 Our mind..maketh up the conceivable or intelligible things out of the sensible. 1701Norris 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. 1856Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 54 The presumption of those who place sense above intelligence—who think that they can storm the Intelligible by the Sensible.
B. n. That which is intelligible; an object of intellect or understanding; spec. in Philos. (see A. 3).
1601Gill Trinity in Sacr. Philos. (1625) 218 An Infinite intelligible, cannot be conceived of an Infinite intelligent, but by an Infinite action of the understanding. 1659Stanley Hist. Philos. III. ii. 118 The philosophy which is of incorporealls, and intelligibles, and immaterialls, and eternalls..is firmly established. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 634 This divine Word..is itself the Image of God, the most ancient of all Intelligibles, and next to the most High. 1788T. Taylor Proclus I. 44 The ancient theologists..affirmed that the soul was of a certain middle nature and condition between intelligibles and sensibles. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 23 Draw off the mind from Sensible things and conduct them to Intelligibles. |