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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Comprehensible, a. [e.m.E. comprehensyble (1529), L. comprehensibilis.] Capable of being understood. —1490 Irland Mir. I. 154/35.
The perfectioun of this … virgin is comprehensible to mannis wit
