intercommunicable

Updated: May 23, 2025

In the last capacity he was called upon to listen to the woes of George Selwyn, who, having lost at Newmarket more money than he could possibly hope to pay, saw ruin staring him in the face. There is in Selwyn's letter a note of eloquent misery. He was, save when lulled to sleep in Parliament, a man of many words. Selwyn's debts and his friend's money are intercommunicable.

Agnes Repplier - Americans and Others

Let it be understood, however, that it was not the correct and original pronunciation that we cared for that has perished probably beyond recall, even in the case of Greek, in spite of the Asiatic and the Insular Greeks what we demanded in vain was any pronunciation whatever that should be articulate, apprehensible, and intercommunicable, such as might differentiate the words: whereas a system of mere vowels too inadequately strengthened by consonants, seemed to leave all words pretty nearly alike.

Thomas De Quincey - Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1