Both Uses of
intelligible
in
Gulliver's Travels
- And I observe, when any Yahoo comes from London out of curiosity to visit me at my house, we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.†
Chpt Intr.
- I answered as loud as I could in several languages, and he often laid his ear within two yards of me: but all in vain, for we were wholly unintelligible to each other.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
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(intelligible) capable of being understood