intelligiblyadv.

?1548 tr. J. Calvin Faythfvl Treat. Sacrament sig. Dvi But in the masse, it is so farre vnlyke that any doctrine should be intelligibly harde, that contrary wyse al the whole mistery is thought to be prophaned vnlesse all thinges be sayd and done priuily & couertly to the intent nothing may be perceyued or vnderstande.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. xv. 381 Euen hee that in his owne nature speaketh..not sensiblie but intelligibly [L. intellegibiliter], not temporally, but (as I may say) æternall, neither beginning speach, nor ending.

1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated 2 There are many things intelligible, which are not sensible; as time does, every article of it, intelligibly pass away, not sensibly.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. i. 8 By the Ideal world I understand that world which is intelligibly what this is sensibly, the eternal model and exemplar of all created essence.

a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1754) IV. iv. xxvii. 475 Now the second hypostasis, or the first mind, is according to this hypothesis an architypal world, which contains intelligibly all that is contained sensibly in our world.

1880 G. S. Morris Brit. Thought & Thinkers xii. 377 The whole result is to set before us..what mind is felt to be..and not what it is intelligibly known to be.

1941 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 2 22 It is also this ontologically neutral approach of phenomenology to the given which alone could place the intelligibly given alongside of the sensibly given..and thus lead to a rediscovery of the realm of the ideal.

1969 Mind 78 184 Give the Forms their intermediate but additionally equivocal role of the intelligibly definite behind the sensibly indefinite, and the presence of the regress..can only be saved at the price of artificiality.

2000 J. Secada Cartesian Metaphysics: Late Scholastic Origins of Mod. Philos. ix. 248 Each thinking nature is intelligibly individual in some intrinsic, non-trivial way.

1564 J. Rastell Confut. Serm. M. Iuell sig. Av Therefore to conclude. as I wrote this for my frind, intelligiblie and familiarlie, so I leaue it vnto the Reader. nothinge alteringe of that manner.

1607 E. Grimeston tr. S. Goulart Admirable & Memorable Hist. 434 The Maide talked plainly and intelligibly with her.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell iii. 28 To speake French intelligibly roundly, and congruously.

1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo iii. 318 It had been therefore more plain-heartedly and ingenuously done, had our Author written a Confutation of the Scripture, proving that the Spirit did not speak intelligibly.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 165. ¶6 When he writes for Mony he knows how to Speak intelligibly enough.

1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village iii. ix. 72 Really, aunt, I don't know what you mean; when you talk intelligibly, I'll answer you.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. xlvii. 344 Do not many head lands, shoals, islands, speak most intelligibly to us, and say, we are but remnants of lands, rudely torn from other shores?

1830 W. Dunlap Trip to Niagara i. i. 18 Perhaps the gentleman can tell his story quite as intelligibly as you can, Monsieur Tonson!

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 708 They..drew up a paper in which they very intelligibly hinted that this was their wish.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors (ed. 2) II. ii. 24 One subject, conceived by her only of late, and not intelligibly, not communicably: a subject thickly veiled.

1927 Observer 6 Feb. 14/4 This does not mean papping food for babes; it means speaking intelligibly to grown-ups.

1966 C. M. Bowra Memories 1898–1939 xiv. 352 Knowing how cruelly conscientious objectors had been treated in the First World War, I was determined to see that their cases were put intelligibly before the tribunals.

1999 New Republic 8 Nov. 83/1 Historians..have to communicate their findings, intelligibly and attractively.