adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a comprehensible manner.

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1755.  in Johnson [with quot. from Tillotson, where it occurs in ed. 1671 for comprehensively of Wks., 1714].

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1887.  Sat. Rev., 5 March, 337. He undertakes nothing that he cannot carry out clearly and comprehensibly.

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