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"ref": "1697, John Locke, Letter to the Bishop of Worcester (second reply)",
"text": "And indeed, my lord, there are so many passages in your writing in this controversy with me, which for their construction, as well as otherwise, are so unintelligible to me, that if I should be so unmannerly as to measure your understanding by mine, I should not know what to think of them."
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"text": "They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nerazbiraem",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "неразбираем"
},
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "inintel·ligible"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bù kě lǐjiě de",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "不可理解的"
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{
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"word": "onverstaanbaar"
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"word": "onbegrijpelijk"
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"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "käsittämätön"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "ei ymmärrettävä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "inintelligible"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "inintelixible"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gaugebari",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "გაუგებარი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ʒnelmisaxvedri",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "ძნელმისახვედრი"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "bundovani",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "ბუნდოვანი"
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"sense": "not intelligible",
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"roman": "akatáliptos",
"sense": "not intelligible",
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "érthetetlen"
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"word": "inintelligibile"
},
{
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{
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"sense": "not intelligible",
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},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "niezrozumiały"
},
{
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "not intelligible",
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},
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"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "ininteligible"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "obegriplig"
}
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},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nerazbiraem",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "неразбираем"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "not intelligible",
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},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bù kě lǐjiě de",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "不可理解的"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "nesrozumitelný"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "onverstaanbaar"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "onbegrijpelijk"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "käsittämätön"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "ei ymmärrettävä"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "inintelligible"
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{
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "inintelixible"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gaugebari",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "გაუგებარი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ʒnelmisaxvedri",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "ძნელმისახვედრი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "bundovani",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "ბუნდოვანი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gaurḳveveli",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "გაურკვეველი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "unverständlich"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "akatáliptos",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "ακατάληπτος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "akatanóitos",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "ακατανόητος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "érthetetlen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "inintelligibile"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "incomprensibile"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "manganga"
},
{
"code": "no",
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"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "uforståelig"
},
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"code": "oc",
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"sense": "not intelligible",
"word": "inintelligible"
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"sense": "not intelligible",
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"sense": "not intelligible",
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "not intelligible",
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"word": "невразуми́тельный"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"code": "es",
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{
"code": "sv",
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"word": "obegriplig"
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