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Webster 1913 Edition


Comprehensible

Com′pre-hen′si-ble

,
Adj.
[L.
comprehensibilis
: cf. F.
compreéhensible
.]
1.
Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not
comprehensible
by axiom, we will set down some heads of it.
Bacon.
2.
Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.
The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not
comprehensible
by us.
Locke.

Webster 1828 Edition


Comprehensible

COMPREHENSIBLE

, a.
1.
That may be comprehended, or included; possible to be comprised.
2.
Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.

Definition 2024


comprehensible

comprehensible

See also: compréhensible

English

Adjective

comprehensible (comparative more comprehensible, superlative most comprehensible)

  1. Able to be comprehended.

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Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1375, borrowing from Latin comprehensibilis[1].

Adjective

comprehensible m, f (plural comprehensibles)

  1. comprehensible

References

  1. compréhensible” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).