Both Uses
intelligible
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
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- If you are in an intelligible condition, I've thirty-five roubles to remit to you, as Semyon Semyonovitch has received from Afanasy Ivanovitch at your mamma's request instructions to that effect, as on previous occasions.†
Chpt 2.3intelligible = capable of being understood
- He is in 'an intelligible condition'!†
Chpt 2.3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(intelligible) capable of being understood
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)