apprehensible

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CNN, like all televised media, specializes in nearsighted news, favoring big, easily apprehensible images and storylines.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2015

One of the best parts of “Ghettoside” is a wonderfully apprehensible crash course in legal anthropology.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2015

What he craved was neither luxury nor the high rhetoric of history painting, but apprehensible truth, visible, familiar, open to touch and repetition.

From Time Magazine Archive

The principle is clearer and more apprehensible in the concrete example than in the abstract statement; as a matter of fact it is applied in every experimental search for a cause.

From The Making of Arguments by Gardiner, J. H.

But the marginal reading, "Expansion," has definite value; and the statement that "God said, Let there be an expansion in the midst of the waters, and God called the expansion, Heaven," has an apprehensible meaning.

From Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' by Ruskin, John