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adjective

Comprehensible adj.

Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised. "Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it."

Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind. "The horizon sets the bounds... between what is and what is not comprehensible by us."

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Etymology of 'Comprehensible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Comprehensible" Quotes from Famous Books

... yes, 'tis comprehensible enough, Wherefore with your commission of to-day 40 You were not all too willing to remember ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... his intermediate agents, one half of the annual amount of lumber felled for market, the sale of which was arranged with the neighboring forge owners by mutual agreement; the other half was disposed of by notarial act. This latter arrangement was clear and comprehensible; the price of sale and the amounts falling due were both clearly indicated in the deed. But it was quite different with the bargains made by the owner himself, which were often credited by notes payable at sight, ...

— A Woodland Queen, Complete • Andre Theuriet

... objected to being made the subject of an article—first of all, for the very comprehensible reason that such publicity would draw down upon her a host of visitors; and when I suggested that visitors probably meant funds, she added a second, and not quite so comprehensible an objection—that ...

— Mystic London: - or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis • Charles Maurice Davies

... Hal[1] so fine a representative of all that is careless and gay in prodigal youth, with its noble qualities but half in abeyance, and abounding spirit and humour and reckless fancy making its course of wild adventure comprehensible even to the gravest. Perhaps the licence of the Stewart blood carried the hapless northern prince into more dangerous adventures than the wild fun of Gadshill and Eastcheap. And Prince David's future had already been compromised by ...

— Royal Edinburgh - Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets • Margaret Oliphant

... Agent he had come out to serve under. He looked into the open-ended dining-room and shyly round the verandah, and then sat down and waited for some one to turn up. Sundry natives turned up, and said a good deal, but no one white or comprehensible, so in desperation he made another and a bolder tour completely round the verandah and noticed a most peculiar noise in one of the rooms and an infinity of flies going into the venetian shuttered window. Plucking up courage he went in and found ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

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