different between intelligibly vs understandingly

English

intelligible +? -ly

intelligibly (comparative more intelligibly, superlative most intelligibly)

From Middle English undirstondingli, understandandly, equivalent to understanding +? -ly.

understandingly (comparative more understandingly, superlative most understandingly)

In an understanding manner; with empathy.
(obsolete) In a way that can be understood; intelligibly.
- , vol.I, New York, 2001, p.232:
  Garcias ab Horto writes of one whom he saw at Goa in the East Indies, that took ten drams of opium in three days; and yet consulto loquebatur, spake understandingly […]

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