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Example sentences for "intelligibly"

Lexicographically close words:
intelligentsia; intelligi; intelligibility; intelligible; intelligibles; intelligitur; intemperance; intemperate; intemperately; intemperateness
  1. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, if not from that of Buffon himself, that the greater number of organs are as purposive to the evolutionist as to the theologian, and far more intelligibly so.

  2. The Lieutenant hinted very intelligibly that, if they came into his hands again, they should be put into heavy irons and should lie on bare stones.

  3. He hinted very intelligibly that there was one most desirable event which would completely secure the throne and quiet the distracted realm.

  4. You cannot tell the story intelligibly now, and if you could, I should not be willing to listen to it.

  5. He saw that there had been some serious difficulty with the bad boys, but he did not ask Rollo any thing about it, then; for he knew that he could not talk intelligibly till he had done crying.

  6. In like manner, since He is the First Being, and all other beings pre-exist in Him as in their First Cause, it follows that they exist intelligibly in Him, after the mode of His own Nature.

  7. Now whatever is intelligibly in an intelligent subject, is understood by that subject.

  8. For in the perfection itself of the divine existence are contained both the Word intelligibly proceeding and the principle of the Word, with whatever belongs to His perfection (Q.

  9. Each of these capacities of the wood is distinct; we cannot relate them intelligibly to one another, nor deduce them from the assumed fundamental 'woodiness'.

  10. I have already pointed out more than once in this work that evil is a consequence of privation, and I think that I have explained that intelligibly enough.

  11. These threats were most intelligibly interpreted to the Indians by Dona Marina, who also put them in mind of Motecusuma's army, which every moment might fall upon them.

  12. Phrases like these are constantly occurring, which can not be explained intelligibly by the existing grammars.

  13. According to the qualities thus learned, you may talk to them intelligibly of the sweetness of an apple, the color of a rose, the hardness of iron, the harmony of sounds, the smell or scent of things which possess that quality.

  14. Mr. Gladstone thought that freedom was the answer; what path the others would have us tread, neither Ruskin nor his stormy teacher ever intelligibly told us.

  15. Still there are propositions which we might intelligibly use.

  16. We can speak intelligibly of proportions in finite space, and determine their relations to each other and the whole.

  17. On the second day of Mr. Wallace's search the trouble he had given on the previous day for his money was intelligibly hinted to him.

  18. I have always been at a loss to understand how boys who have been studying a language for nine or ten years should leave school perfectly unable to converse intelligibly in that language for five minutes together.

  19. I guarantee that in a few months you will be able to understand all that is said to you in French, and express intelligibly in the same language any idea that may pass through your brain.

  20. And first--we will premise, that a revelation consists of an assemblage of rational ideas, intelligibly arranged and understood by those to whom it may be supposed to be revealed, for otherwise it could not exist in their minds as such.

  21. And, in fact, we cannot reflect at all on the propositions already laid down by Spinosa, without perceiving that they annihilate every possible hypothesis in which the being of a God can be intelligibly stated.

  22. But when men have once acquiesced in untrue opinions, and registered them as authentical records in their minds, it is no less impossible to speak intelligibly to such men, than to write legibly on a paper already scribbled over.

  23. How valuable for science to have naturalists who can distinguish properly what they see, and describe intelligibly that which they distinguish.

  24. You cannot impart to any man more than the words which he understands either now contain, or can be made, intelligibly to him, to contain.

  25. Nor, when the scene of the work is spread and distributed over the whole country, and the labour involved is shared in by a host of public servants, would any arrangement of figures put the matter intelligibly within our grasp.

  26. How I got there," he resumed after a brief pause, during which he appeared to be listening intently for an approaching sound, "is more than I can put intelligibly into words.

  27. Mr. Froude does not know enough to analyze and intelligibly present serious matters like these.

  28. Now, the Trinity, as intelligibly mirrored in the Word, is the objective life of the cosmos, or its typical cause.

  29. The objective life of the cosmos is the life of the infinite intelligibly expressed in the Word.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intelligibly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    clearly; definitely; distinctly; expressly; plainly; simply