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副詞

intelligibly (comparative more intelligibly, superlative most intelligibly)

1. In an intelligible manner.

   Antonyms: unintelligibly, incomprehensibly

   Near-synonym: comprehensibly

   • 1624, John Donne, “IX. Expostulation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 217:

     O my God, (euer conſtant to thine ovvne vvayes), thou haſt proceeded opẽly [openly], intelligibly, manifeſtly, by the book.

   • 1997, Frederic Raphael, The necessity of anti-semitism, page 87:

     When people can no longer disagree intelligibly, a society disintegrates; where they need interpreters, they cannot either unite or emerge from conflict into unbelittling compromise.

   • 2023, James D. Dana, Edward S. Dana, B. Silliman, The American Journal of Science: Vol. XXIV, page 221:

     In order to state intelligibly the working hypothesis suggested by the foregoing facts, it will be necessary to briefly state the conclusions as to the formation of åsar and the determination of river courses reached by the senior author after a practically exhaustive survey of the cenology of the north-eastern quarter of Iowa.

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