make understood

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It is a fact that, by playing it alone, they carry on a conversation and make understood whatever they wish to say.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

In spite of certain details which it seems impossible to make understood on the Potomac, the whole American preparation and enthusiasm seem from this distance to be very fine.

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Hendrick, Burton Jesse

And how great the desire which Love excited to behold this Lady, it would be impossible either to tell or to make understood.

From The Banquet (Il Convito) by Sayer, Elizabeth Price

Bentham and Kant required interpreters—Dumont and Cousin—to make understood what was well worth understanding.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. by Various