The motive is simple and intelligible and commendable, but its nature and operation is popularly and grossly misapprehended.
Principles of Political Economy|Arthur Latham Perry
And if he has done so he will find such comparisons and images the most distinct and the most intelligible.
Criminal Psychology|Hans Gross
Indeed it has not seen anything, and it never could see anything such (as the intelligible beings).
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2|Plotinos (Plotinus)
But a study of the photographs taken by aeroplanes makes it at least intelligible.
Canada in Flanders, Volume II (of 3)|Lord Max Aitken Beaverbrook
That in every Art certain complete sciences may be included is intelligible of itself, and should not perplex us.
On War|Carl von Clausewitz
British Dictionary definitions for intelligible
intelligible
/ (ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəbəl) /
adjective
able to be understood; comprehensible
philosophy
capable of being apprehended by the mind or intellect alone
(in metaphysical systems such as those of Plato or Kant) denoting that metaphysical realm which is accessible to the intellect as opposed to the world of mere phenomena accessible to the senses