| 单词 |
comprehensible |
| 释义 |
comprehensible, a.|kɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪb(ə)l|
[ad. L. comprehensibil-em, f. comprehens- ppl. stem of comprehend-ĕre: see comprehend and -ble. Cf. mod.F. compréhensible (earlier comprehensable).]
Capable of being comprehended.
1. That may be comprised or contained.
1529More Heresyes i. Wks. 121/2 He is not comprehensyble nor circumscribed no where. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. ii. 11 An argument comprehensible within the notice and instructions of the writer. 1799T. Beddoes Contrib. Phys. & Med. 217 The phænomena in which light and oxygen are concerned, especially as the actions of life promise to be comprehensible under them.
2. That may be grasped:
†a. sensibly: Palpable.
1579North Plutarch 261 Things not comprehensible, and without body.
b. mentally: Conceivable, intelligible.
1598Florio Comprehensibile, comprehensible, that may be comprehended. a1631Donne Selections (1840) 181 It is apprehensible by sense, and not comprehensible by reason. 1815Scribbleomania 248 To render the subject comprehensible to the meanest capacity. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India i. vi. I. 325 For reasons not easily comprehensible.
compreˈhensibleness, comprehensible quality.
1669H. More Exp. 7 Epist. Pref. (T.), Which facility and comprehensibleness must needs improve the usefulness of these expositions very considerably. |
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