intelligible

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Intelligible and far from salacious, it manages to denounce pollution and corruption without invoking Mao Tse-tung.

From Time Magazine Archive

Intelligible to the searching mind, Is the Creator's message to mankind, If it with fervour study His grand laws, Which prove that each effect must have a cause.

From Home Lyrics by Battersby, H. S. (Hannah S.)

Intelligible statement, reasoned thought, and a certainty which excluded all suppositions and reservations,—these were his requirements from his young pupil.

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward

Intelligible word of command, not musical psalmody and fiddling, is possible in this fell storm of battle.

From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas

And from this Notion of it, we may easily give a more Intelligible reason how the Air becomes so capable of Rarefaction and Condensation.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert