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Meanings of intelligibly in English

In an intelligible manner.

Usage of intelligibly in English
1
And they rarely spoke intelligibly, except in response to a direct question.
The Forever War
2
That rarefaction cannot be intelligibly explained unless in the way here proposed.
Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
3
The rill-system is far too complicated to be intelligibly described in words.
The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical F...
4
So the tangled web will be most speedily and most intelligibly unrolled.
The Woman in White
5
Janice was so excited she could scarcely speak intelligibly for a minute.
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
6
Instead of answering intelligibly, Pennington turned and walked away a few feet.
Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis / Or, Two Midshipmen as N...
7
To do this intelligibly, I shall have to go back twenty-two years.
The Case of Summerfield
8
At home they spoke differently, more intelligibly, more simply, and more loudly.
Mother
9
The details of the movement were now intelligibly and clearly settled.
Satanstoe; Or, the Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony
10
He only insists that this natural fitness shall be intelligibly explained.
Cratylus
11
In a thick crowd of sounds, but still intelligibly enough to be understood.
Bleak House
12
On such a theory alone is the government of this world intelligibly just.
Essays in Literature and History
13
The vagabond nobleman made a resolute effort to explain himself intelligibly, this time:
Blind Love
14
The odious Bridget might after all have acted intelligibly, though abominably.
Missing
15
His voice shook so that he hardly uttered his sentence intelligibly.
The Moccasin Ranch: A Story of Dakota
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I can hardly write intelligibly, but I will tell you what we know.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 6
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Intelligibly across language varieties
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