n. The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. comprehensibilis: cf. F. compreéhensible. ]
Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
n. [ Cf. F. incompréhensibilité. ] The quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; incomprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability. [ 1913 Webster ]
The constant, universal sense of all antiquity unanimously confessing an incomprehensibility in many of the articles of the Christian faith. South. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. incomprehensibilis: cf. F. incompréhensible. See In- not, and Comprehensible. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
An infinite and incomprehensible substance. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
And all her numbered stars that seem to roll
Spaces incomprehensible. Milton.
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