INABIL'ITY, noun [Latin inhabilis; in and habilis.]

1. Want of sufficient physical power or strength; as the inability of a man to raise an arm or a leg.

2. Want of adequate means; as an inability to purchase a farm, or to fit out a ship.

3. Want of moral power. Moral inability is considered to be want of inclination, disposition or will, or a deep-rooted aversion to act, and therefore improperly so called.

Moral inability aggravates our guilt.

4. Want of intellectual strength or force; as an inability to comprehend a mathematical demonstration.

5. Want of knowledge or skill; as an inability to read or write.

INA'BLEMENT, noun [See Enable.] Ability. [Not in use.]

INAB'STINENCE, noun [in and abstinence.] A not abstaining; a partaking; indulgence of appetite; as the inabstinence of Eve.

INABU'SIVELY, adverb Without abuse.

INACCESSIBIL'ITY

INACCESS'IBLE, adjective [in and accessible.]

1. Not to be reached; as an inaccessible highth or rock. The depths of the sea are inaccessible.

2. Not to be obtained. The necessary vouchers are inaccessible.

3. Not to be approached; forbidding access; as an inaccessible prince.

INACCESS'IBLE, a. [in and accessible.]

INACCESS'IBLENESS, noun [from inaccessible.]

The quality or state of being inaccessible, or not to be reached.

INACCESS'IBLY, adverb So as not to be approached.

INAC'CURACY, noun [from inaccurate.] Want of accuracy or exactness; mistake; fault; defect; error; as an inaccuracy in writing, in a transcript, or in a calculation.

INAC'CURATE, adjective [in and accurate.] Not accurate; not exact or correct; not according to truth; erroneous; as an inaccurate man; he is inaccurate in narration; the transcript or copy is inaccurate; the instrument is inaccurate

INAC'CURATELY, adverb Not according to truth; incorrectly; erroneously. The accounts are inaccurately stated.

INAC'TION, noun Want of action; forbearance of labor; idleness; rest.

INAC'TIVE, adjective [in and active.] Not active; inert; having no power to move. Matter is, per se, inactive

1. Not active; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle. Also, habitually idle; indolent; sluggish; as an inactive officer.

INAC'TIVELY, adverb Idly; sluggishly; without motion, labor or employment.

INACTIV'ITY, noun [in and activity.] Inertness; as the inactivity of matter.

1. Idleness, or habitual idleness; want of action or exertion; sluggishness.

INAC'TUATE, verb transitive To put in action. [Not used.]

INACTUA'TION, noun Operation. [Not used.]

INAD'EQUACY, noun [from inadequate.] The quality of being unequal or insufficient for a purpose.

The inadequacy and consequent inefficacy

of the alleged causes--

1. Inequality.

Dr. Price considers this inadequacy of representation as our fundamental grievance.

2. Incompleteness; defectiveness; as the inadequacy of ideas.

INAD'EQUATE, adjective [in and adequate. Latin adoequatus, from adoequo, to equal.]

1. Not equal to the purpose; insufficient to effect the object; unequal; as inadequate power, strength, resources.

2. Not equal to the real state or condition of a thing; not just or in due proportion; partial; incomplete; as inadequate ideas of God, of his perfections, or moral government; an inadequate compensation for services.

3. Incomplete; defective; not just; as inadequate representation or description.

INAD'EQUATELY, adverb Not fully or sufficiently; not completely.

INAD'EQUATENESS, noun The quality of being inadequate; inadequacy; inequality; incompleteness.

INADEQUA'TION, noun Want of exact correspondence.

INADHE'SION, noun s as z. [in and adhesion.] Want of adhesion; a not adhering.

Porcelain clay is distinguished from colorific earths by inadhesion to the fingers.

INADMISSIBIL'ITY, noun [from inadmissible.] The quality of being inadmissible, or not proper to be received; as the inadmissibility of an argument, or of evidence in court, or of a proposal in a negotiation.

INADMIS'SIBLE, adjective Not admissible; not proper to be admitted, allowed or received; as inadmissible testimony; as inadmissible proposition.

INADVERT'ENCE

INADVERT'ENCY, noun [Latin in and advertens, adverto. See Advert.]

1. A not turning the mind to; inattention; negligence; heedlessness. Many mistakes and some misfortunes proceed from inadvertence

2. The effect of inattention; any oversight, mistake or fault which proceeds from negligence of thought.

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertencies, are infinitely preferable to works of an inferior kind of author.

INADVERT'ENCY, n. [L. in and advertens, adverto. See Advert.]

INADVERT'ENT, adjective [Latin in and advertens.] Not turning the mind to; heedless; careless; negligent.

INADVERT'ENTLY, adverb Heedlessly; carelessly; from want of attention; inconsiderately.

INAFFABIL'ITY, noun Reservedness in conversation.

INAF'FABLE, adjective Not affable; reserved.

INAFFECTA'TION, noun Destitution of affected manner.

INAFFECT'ED, adjective Unaffected. [Not used.]

INA'IDABALE, adjective That cannot be assisted.

INA'LIENABLE, adjective [Latin alieno, alienus.]

Unalienable; that cannot be legally or justly alienated or transferred to another. The dominions of a king are inalienable All men have certain natural rights which are inalienable The estate of a minor is inalienable without a reservation of the right of redemption, or the authority of the legislature.

INA'LIENABLENESS, noun The state of being inalienable.

INA'LIENABLY, adverb In a manner that forbids alienation; as rights inalienably vested.

INALIMENT'AL, adjective [in and aliment.] Affording no nourishment.

INALTERABIL'ITY, noun [from inalterable.] The quality of not being alterable or changeable.

INAL'TERABLE, adjective [in and alterable.] That cannot or may not be altered or changed; unalterable.

INA'MIABLE, adjective Unamiable. [Not in use.]

INA'MIABLENESS, noun Unamiableness. [Not in use.]

INAMIS'SIBLE, adjective [Latin in and amitto, to lose.] Not to be lost.

[Little used.]

INAMIS'SIBLENESS, noun The state of not being liable to be lost.

INAMORA'TO, noun [Latin in and amor, love.] A lover.

INA'NE, adjective [Latin inanis, empty.] Empty; void; sometimes used as a noun, to express a void space.

INAN'GULAR, adjective Not angular. [Little used.]

INAN'IMATE, verb transitive [infra.] To animate. [Little used.]

INAN'IMATE, adjective [Latin inanimatus; in and animo, animatus.]

1. Destitute of animal life. Plants, stones and earth are inanimate substances; a corpse is an inanimate body.

2. Destitute of animation or life.

INAN'IMATED, adjective Destitute of animal life.

1. Not animated; not sprightly. [See Unanimated.]

INANI'TION, noun [ Latin inanis, empty.]

Emptiness; want of fullness; as inanition of body or of the vessels.

INAN'ITY, noun [Latin inanitas, from inanis, void.]

Emptiness; void space; vacuity.

INAP'PETENCE

INAP'PETENCY, noun [in and appetence, Latin appetentia.]

Want of appetence, or of a disposition to seek, select or imbibe nutriment. [See Appetence.]

1. Want of desire or inclination.

INAP'PETENCY, n. [in and appetence, L. appetentia.]

Want of appetence, or of a disposition to seek, select or imbibe nutriment. [See Appetence.]

INAPPLICABIL'ITY, noun [from inapplicable.]

The quality of not being applicable; unfitness.

INAP'PLICABLE, adjective [in and applicable.] Not applicable; that cannot be applied; not suited or suitable to the purpose. The argument or the testimony is inapplicable to the case.

INAPPLICA'TION, noun Want of application; want of attention or assiduity; negligence; indolence; neglect of study or industry.

INAP'POSITE, adjective s as z. [in and apposite.] Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent; as an inapposite argument.

INAPPRE'CIABLE, adjective [in and appreciable, from appreciate.]

1. Not to be appreciated; that cannot be duly valued.

2. That cannot be estimated.

INAPPREHENS'IBLE, adjective Not intelligible.

INAPPREHENS'IVE, adjective Not apprehensive; regardless.

INAPPROACHABLE, adjective [in and approachable.]

Not to be approached; inaccessible.

INAPPRO'PRIATE, adjective [in and appropriate.]

Not appropriate; unsuited; not proper.

1. Not appropriate; not belonging to.

INAPT'ITUDE, noun [in and aptitude.] Want of aptitude; unfitness; unsuitableness.

INA'QUATE, adjective [Latin in and aquatus.] Embodied in water.

INAQUA'TION, noun The state of being inaquate.

INAR'ABLE, v. [in and arable.]

Not arable; not capable of being plowed or tilled.

IN'ARACHING, participle present tense Grafting by approach.

IN'ARCH, verb transitive [in and arch.] To graft by approach; to graft by uniting a cion to a stock without separating it from its parent tree.

IN'ARCHED, participle passive Grafted by approach.

IN'ARCHING, noun A method of ingrafting, by which a cion, without being separated from its parent tree, is joined to a stock standing near.

INARTIC'ULATE, adjective [in and articulate.] Not uttered with articulation or junction of the organs of speech; not articulate; not distinct, or with distinction of syllables. The sounds of brutes and fowls are, for the most part, inarticulate

INARTIC'ULATELY, adverb Not with distinct syllables; indistinctly.

INARTIC'ULATENESS, noun Indistinctness of utterance by animal voices; want of distinct articulation.

INARTICULA'TION, noun Indistinctness of sounds in speaking.

INARTIFI'CIAL, adjective [In and artificial.]

1. Not done by art; not made or performed by the rules of art; formed without art; as an inartificial style of composition.

2. Simple; artless.

INARTIFI'CIALLY, adverb Without art; in an artless manner; contrary to the rules of art.

INATTEN'TION, noun [in and attention.] The want of attention, or of fixing the mind steadily on an object; heedlessness; neglect.

Novel lays attract our ravished ears,

But old, the mind with inattention hears.

INATTENT'IVE, adjective [in and attentive.] Not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as an inattentive spectator or hearer, an inattentive habit.

INATTENT'IVELY, adverb Without attention; carelessly; heedlessly.

INAUD'IBLE, adjective [in and audible.] That cannot be heard; as an inaudible voice or sound.

1. Making no sound; as the inaudible foot of time.

INAUD'IBLY, adverb In a manner not to be heard.

INAUG'URAL, adjective [Latin inauguro; in and augur.]

1. Pertaining to inauguration; as inaugural ceremonies.

2. Made or pronounced at an inauguration; as an inaugural address.

INAUG'URATE, verb transitive [supra.] To introduce or induct into an office with solemnity or suitable ceremonies; to invest with an office in a formal manner; a word borrowed from the ceremonies used by the Romans when they were received into the college of augurs. Kings and emperors are inaugurated by coronation; a prelate, by consecration; and the president of a college by such ceremonies and forms as give weight and authority to the transaction.

1. To begin with good omens. [Not used.]

INAUG'URATE, adjective Invested with office.

INAUG'URATED, participle passive Inducted into office with appropriate ceremonies.

INAUG'URATING, participle present tense Inducting into office with solemnities.

INAUGURA'TION, noun The act of inducting into office with solemnity; investiture with office by appropriate ceremonies.

INAUG'URATORY, adjective Suited to induction into office; pertaining to inauguration; as inauguratory gratulations.

INAURA'TION, noun [Latin inauro, inauratus; in and aurum, gold.]

The act or process of gilding, or covering with gold.

INAUS'PICATE, adjective Ill omened.

INAUSPI'CIOUS, adjective [in and auspicious.] Ill omened; unfortunate; unlucky; evil; unfavorable. The war commenced at an inauspicious time, and its issue was inauspicious The counsels of a bad man have an inauspicious influence on society.

INAUSPI'CIOUSLY, adverb With ill omens; unfortunately; unfavorably.

INAUSPI'CIOUSNESS, noun Unluckiness; unfavorableness.

IN'BEING, noun [in and being.] Inherence; inherent existence; inseparableness.

IN'BORN, adjective [in and born.] Innate; implanted by nature; as inborn passions; inborn worth.

IN'BREATHED, adjective [in and breathe.] Infused by inspiration.

IN'BRED, adjective [in and bred, breed.] Bred within; innate; natural; as inbred worth; inbred affection.

INBREE'D, verb transitive To produce or generate within.

IN'CA, noun The name or title given by the natives of Peru to their kings and to the princes of the blood, before the conquest of that country by the Spaniards.

INCA'GE, verb transitive [in and cage.] To confine in a cage; to coop us; to confine to any narrow limits.

INCA'GED, participle passive Cooped up; confined to a cage or to narrow limits.

INCA'GEMENT, noun Confinement in a cage.

INCA'GING, participle present tense Confining to a cage or to narrow limits.

INCAL'CULABLE, adjective That cannot be calculated; beyond calculation.

INCAL'CULABLY, adverb In a degree beyond calculation.

INCALES'CENCE

INCALES'CENCY, noun [Latin incalescens, incalesco; in and calesco, caleo, to be hot.]

A growing warm; incipient or increasing heat.

INCALES'CENCY, n. [L. incalescens, incalesco; in and calesco, caleo, to be hot.]

A growing warm; incipient or increasing heat.

INCALES'CENT, adjective Growing warm; increasing in heat.

INCAMERA'TION, noun [in and camera, a chamber, or arched roof.]

The act or process of uniting lands, revenues or other rights to the pope's domain.

INCANDES'CENCE, noun [Latin incandescens, incandesco; in and candesco; candeo, caneo, to be white, to shine; canus, white.]

A white heat; or the glowing whiteness of a body caused by intense heat. We say, a metal is heated to incandescence

INCANDES'CENT, adjective White or glowing with heat.

INCANTA'TION, noun [Latin incantatio, incanto; in and canto, to sing.]

The act of enchanting; enchantment; the act of using certain formulas of words and ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits.

INCANT'ATORY, adjective Dealing by enchantment; magical.

INCANT'ING, adjective Enchanting. [Not used.]

INCAN'TON, verb transitive [in and canton.] To unite to a canton or separate community.

INCAPABIL'ITY

INCA'PABLE, adjective

1. Wanting capacity sufficient; not having room sufficient to contain or hold; followed by of. We say, a vessel is incapable of containing or holding a certain quantity of liquor; but I believe we rarely or never say, a vessel is incapable of that quantity.

2. Wanting natural power or capacity to learn, know, understand or comprehend. Man is incapable of comprehending the essence of the Divine Being. An idiot is incapable of learning to read.

3. Not admitting; not in a state to receive; not susceptible of; as, a bridge is incapable of reparation.

Is not your father grown incapable

Of reasonable affairs?

4. Wanting moral power or disposition. He is incapable of a dishonorable act.

5. Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; not having the legal or constitutional qualifications. A man not thirty years of age is unqualified, and therefore incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a man convicted on impeachment is disqualified, and therefore incapable of holding any office of honor or profit under the government.

Incapable properly denotes a want of passive power, the power of receiving, and is applicable particularly to the mind; unable denotes the want of active power or power of performing, and is applicable to the body or the mind. [See Incapacity.]

INCA'PABLE, a.

INCA'PABLENESS, noun [from incapable.] The quality of being incapable; natural incapacity or want of power; as the incapableness of a child to comprehend logical syllogisms.

1. Want of legal qualifications or of legal power; as the incapability of holding an office.

INCAPA'CIOUS, adjective [in and capacious.] Not capacious; not large or spacious; narrow; of small content; as an incapacious soul.

INCAPA'CIOUSNESS, noun Narrowness; want of containing space.

INCAPAC'ITATE, verb transitive [in and capacitate.]

1. To deprive of capacity or natural power of learning, knowing, understanding or performing. Old age and infirmity often incapacitate men to exercise the office of a judge.

2. To render or make incapable; as, infancy incapacitates a child for learning algebra.

3. To disable; to weaken; to deprive of competent power or ability. This is an improper use of the word. The loss of an arm disables a soldier, but does not incapacitate him.

4. To render unfit; as, infancy incapacitates one for marriage.

5. To disqualify; to deprive of legal or constitutional requisites; as, conviction of a crime incapacitates one to be a witness.

INCAPACITA'TION, noun Want of capacity; disqualification.

INCAPAC'ITY, noun [in and capacity.] Want of capacity, intellectual power, or the power of receiving, containing or understanding; applied to the mind, and it may be natural or casual. There is a natural incapacity in children to comprehend difficult propositions in logic or metaphysics, and a natural incapacity in men to comprehend the nature of spiritual beings. The defect of understanding proceeding from intoxication, or from an injury done to the brain, is a casual incapacity

1. Want of qualification or legal requisites; inability; as the incapacity of minors to make binding contracts.

2. Disqualification; disability by deprivation of power; as the incapacity of a convict to give testimony in a court of law.

INC'ARCERATE, verb transitive [Latin incarcero; in and carcer, a prison; Eng. cark, care; showing the primary sense is to press or strain.]

1. To imprison; to confine in a jail.

2. To confine; to shut up or inclose.

INC'ARCERATE, adjective Imprisoned; confined.

INCARCERA'TION, noun The act of imprisoning or confining; imprisonment.

INC'ARN, verb transitive [Latin incarno; in and caro, carnis, flesh.]

To cover with flesh; to invest with flesh.

INC'ARN, verb intransitive To breed flesh.

INC'ARNADINE, adjective [Latin in and caro, flesh.]

Flesh-colored; of a carnation color; pale red.

INC'ARNADINE, verb transitive To dye red or flesh-color. [Little used.]

INC'ARNATE, verb transitive [Latin incarno; in and caro, flesh.]

To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh.

INC'ARNATE, adjective Invested with flesh; embodied in flesh; a the incarnate Son of God.

1. In Scotland, of a red color; flesh-colored.

INCARNA'TION, noun The act of clothing with flesh.

1. The act of assuming flesh, or of taking a human body and the nature of man; as the incarnation of the Son of God.

2. In surgery, the process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh.

INC'ARNATIVE, v. Causing new flesh to grow; healing.

INC'ARNATIVE, noun A medicine that tends to promote the growth of new flesh, and assist nature in the healing of wounds.

INCA'SE, verb transitive [in and case.] To inclose in a case.

1. To inclose; to cover or surround with something solid.

Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase

INCA'SED, participle passive Inclosed as in a case, sheath or box.

INCA'SING, participle present tense Inclosing as in a case.

INC'ASK, verb transitive To put into a cask.

INCAS'TELLATED, adjective Confined or inclosed in a castle.

INCATENA'TION, noun [Latin catena, a chain.]

The act of linking together.

INCAU'TIOUS, adjective [in and cautious.] Not cautious; unwary; not circumspect; heedless; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; as incautious youth.

INCAU'TIOUSLY, adverb Unwarily; heedlessly; without due circumspection.

INCAU'TIOUSNESS, noun Want of caution; unwariness; want of foresight.

IN'CAVATED, adjective [Latin in and cavo, to make hollow.] Made hollow; bent round or in.

INCAVA'TION, noun The act of making hollow.

1. A hollow made.

INCEND', verb transitive [Latin incendo.] To inflame; to excite. [Little used.]

INCEND'IARY, noun [Latin incendiarius, from incendo, to burn; in and candeo, to shine, or be on fire.]

1. A person who maliciously sets fire to another man's dwelling house, or to any outhouse, being parcel of the same, as a barn or stable; one who is guilty of arson.

2. Any person who sets fire to a building.

3. A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels.

Several cities of Greece drove them out as incendiaries.

Incendiaries of figure and distinction, who are the inventors and publishers of gross falsehoods, cannot be regarded but with the utmost detestation.

4. He or that which excites.

INCEND'IARY, adjective Pertaining to the malicious burning of a dwelling; as an incendiary purpose.

1. Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition or quarrels.

IN'CENSE, noun in'cens. [Latin incensum, burnt, from incendo, to burn.]

1. Perfume exhaled by fire; the odors of spices and gums, burnt in religious rites, or as an offering to some deity.

A thick cloud of incense went up. Ezekiel 8:11.

2. The materials burnt for making perfumes. The incense used in the Jewish offerings was a mixture of sweet spices, stacte, onycha, galbanum, and the gum of the frankincense tree.

Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein and put incense thereon. Lex.10.

3. Acceptable prayers and praises. Mal. Latin

4. In the Materia Medica, a dry resinous substance known by the name of thus and olibanum.

IN'CENSE, verb transitive in'cens. To perfume with incense In the Romish church, it is the deacon's office to incense the officiating priest or prelate, and the choir.

INCENSE, verb transitive incens.' To enkindle or inflame to violent anger; to excite angry passions; to provoke; to irritate; to exasperate; to heat; to fire. It expresses less than enrage.

How could my pious son thy power incense?

INCENS'ED, participle passive Inflamed to violent anger; exasperated.

INCENSEMENT, noun incens'ment. Violent irritation of the passions; heat; exasperation. It expresses less than rage and fury.

INCENS'ING, participle present tense Inflaming to anger; irritating; exasperation.

INCEN'SION, noun [Latin incensio, from incendo, to burn.]

The act of kindling; the state of being on fire.

INCENS'IVE, adjective Tending to excite or provoke.

INCENS'OR, noun [Latin] A kindler of anger; an inflamer of the angry passions.

INCENS'ORY, noun The vessel in which incense is burnt and offered. [We generally use censer.]

INCEN'TIVE, adjective [Low Latin incentivus, from incendo, to burn.]

Inciting; encouraging or moving.

Competency is the most incentive to industry.

INCEN'TIVE, noun [Low Latin incentivum.]

1. That which kindles or inflames; used now in a figurative sense only.

2. That which moves the mind or operates on the passions; that which incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur. The love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two most powerful incentives to action.

INCEP'TION, noun [Latin inceptio, from incipio, to begin; in and capio, to take.] Beginning.

I hope this society will not be marked with vivacity of inception apathy of progress, and prematureness of decay.

INCEP'TIVE, adjective [Latin inceptivus, from incipio, to begin.]

Beginning; noting beginning; as an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action.

A point is inceptive of a line, and a line is inceptive of a surface.

INCEP'TOR, noun A beginner; one in the rudiments

INCERA'TION, noun [Latin incero, from cera.] The act of covering with wax.

INCER'TAIN, adjective [in and certain.] Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady.

INCER'TAINLY, adverb Doubtfully.

INCER'TAINTY, noun Uncertainty; doubt.

INCER'TITUDE, noun [Latin incertitudo, from incertus; in and certus, certain.] Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt.

INCES'SABLE, adjective Unceasing; continual. [little used.]

INCES'SANCY, noun [from incessant.] Unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.

INCES'SANT, adjective [Latin in and cessans, from cesso, to cease.]

Unceasing; unintermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as incessant rains; incessant clamors.

INCES'SANTLY, adverb Without ceasing; continually.

IN'CEST, noun [Latin incestum; in and castus, chaste.]

The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by the law of a country.

Spiritual incest is a like crime committed between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation. It is also understood of a vicar or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one depending on the collation of the other.

INCEST'UOUS, adjective Guilty of incest; as an incestuous person.

1. Involving the crime of incest; as an incestuous connection.

INCEST'UOUSLY, adverb In an incestuous manner; in a manner to involve the crime of incest.

INCEST'UOUSNESS, noun The state or quality of being incestuous.

INCH, noun [Latin uncia, the twelfth part.]

1. A lineal measure in Great Britain and the United States, being the twelfth part of a foot, and equal to the length of three barley corns.

2. Proverbially, a small quantity or degree; as, to die by inches, to gain ground by inches.

3. A precise point of time.

Beldame, I think, we watch'd you at an inch [Unusual.]

INCH, verb transitive To drive by inches or small degrees. [Little used.]

1. To deal out by inches; to give sparingly. [Little used.]

INCH, verb intransitive To advance or retire by small degrees. [Little used.]

INCHed, is added to words of number; as four-inched. But in American the common practice is to add only inch; as a seven-inch cable.

INCHAR'ITABLE, adjective Uncharitable. [The latter is the word used.]

INCHAS'TITY, noun [in and chastity.] Lewdness; impurity; unchastity.

INCHEST', verb transitive To put into a chest.

INCH'-MEAL, noun [inch and meal.] A piece an inch long.

IN'CHOATE, verb transitive [Latin inchoo.] To begin. [Little used.]

IN'CHOATE, adjective Begun; commenced.

It is neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate

IN'CHOATELY, adverb In an incipient degree.

INCHOA'TION, noun The act of beginning; commencement; inception.

The setting on foot some of those arts in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them. [Little used.]

INCHO'ATIVE, adjective Noting beginning; inceptive; as an inchoative verb, otherwise called inceptive.

INCI'DE, verb transitive [Latin incido; in and coedo, to strike.]

To cut; to separate; as medicines.

IN'CIDENCE, noun [Latin incidens; incido, to fall on; in and cado, to fall.]

1. Literally, a falling on; whence, an accident or casualty.

2. The manner of falling on, or the direction in which one body falls on or strikes another. The angle which the line of falling, or the direction of a moving body striking another, makes with the place struck, is called the angle of incidence When rays of light striking a body are reflected, the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are equal.

In equal incidences there is a considerable inequality of refractions.

IN'CIDENT, adjective Falling; casual; fortuitous; coming or happening occasionally, or not in the usual course of things, or not according to expectation or in connection with the main design.

As the ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so man's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered.

A proposition introduced by who, which, whose, whom, etc. is called an incident proposition; as, Julius, whose surname was Caesar, overcame Pompey.

1. Happening; apt to happen; as intemperate passions incident to human nature; diseases incident to a climate; misfortunes incident to the poor.

2. Appertaining to or following the chief or principal. A court baron is incident to a manor.

IN'CIDENT, noun That which falls out; an event; casualty.

1. That which happens aside of the main design; an episode or subordinate action.

No person, no incident in a play but must be of use to carry on the main design.

INCIDENT'AL, adjective Happening; coming without design; casual; accidental; as an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence.

1. Not necessary to the chief purpose; occasional.

By some persons, religious duties appear to be regarded as an incidental business.

INCIDENT'AL, noun An incident. [Little used.]

INCIDENT'ALLY, adverb Casually; without intention; accidentally. I was incidentally present when the conversation took place.

1. Beside the main design; occasionally.

I treat either purposely or incidentally of colors.

IN'CIDENTLY, adverb Occasionally; by the way. [Not used.]

INCIN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin in and cinis, cineris, ashes]

To burn to ashes.

INCIN'ERATED, participle passive Burnt to ashes.

INCIN'ERATING, participle present tense Reducing to ashes by combustion.

INCINERA'TION, noun The act of reducing to ashes by combustion.

INCIP'IENCY, noun Beginning; commencement.

INCIP'IENT, adjective [Latin incipiens, incipio; in and capio, to take.]

Beginning; commencing; as the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light or day.

INCIR'CLET, noun A small circle.

INCIRCUMSCRIP'TIBLE, adjective That cannot be circumscribed or limited.

INCIRCUMSPEC'TION, noun [in and circumspection.] Want of circumspection; heedlessness.

INCI'SE, verb transitive s as z. To cut in; to carve.

INCI'SED, adjective [Latin incisus, from incido, to cut.]

Cut; made by cutting; as an incised wound; incised lips.

INCI'SELY, adverb In the manner of incisions or notches.

INCIS'ION, noun s as z. [Latin incisio, from incido, to cut.]

1. A cutting; the act of cutting into a substance.

2. A cut; a gash; the separation of the surface of any substance made by a sharp instrument. The surgeon with his knife makes an incision in the flesh, and the gardener, in a tree; but we do not say, an incision is made with a plow or a spade; at least such phraseology is unusual.

3. Separation of viscid matter by medicines.

INCI'SIVE, adjective Having the quality of cutting or separating the superficial part of any thing.

Incisive teeth, in animals, are the fore teeth, the cutters.

INCI'SOR, noun [Latin] A cutter; a fore tooth, which cuts, bites or separates.

INCI'SORY, adjective Having the quality of cutting.

INCIS'URE, noun [Latin incisura.] A cut; a place opened by cutting; an incision.

INCI'TANT, noun [from incite.] That which excites action in an animal body.

INCITA'TION, noun [Latin incitatio. See Incite.]

1. The act of inciting or moving to action; incitement.

2. Incitement; incentive; motive; that which excites to action; that which rouses or prompts.

INCI'TE, verb transitive [Latin incito; in and cito, to call, to stir up.]

1. To move the mind to action by persuasion or motives presented; to stir up; to rouse; to spur on.

Antiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans.

2. To move to action by impulse or influence.

No blown ambition does our arms incite

3. To animate; to encourage.

INCI'TED, participle passive Moved to action; stirred up; spurred on.

INCI'TEMENT, noun That which incites the mind or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse.

From the long records of a distant age,

Derive incitement to renew thy rage.

INCI'TER, noun He or that which incites or moves to action.

INCI'TING, participle present tense Exciting to action; stirring up.

In general, incite denotes to operate on the mind or will; excite has the same sense, but it extends also to the passions and to material substances; as, to excite action in the heart and arteries.

INCIV'IL, adjective [in and civil.] Uncivil; rude; unpolite. [But uncivil is generally used.]

INCIVIL'ITY, noun Want of courtesy; rudeness of manners towards others; impoliteness.

1. Any act of rudeness or ill breeding; with a plural. Loud laughter and uncomely jests in respectable company, are incivilities and indecencies.

INCIV'ILLY, adverb Uncivilly; rudely.

INCIV'ISM, noun [in and civism.] Want of civism; want of love to one's country or of patriotism; unfriendliness to the state or government of which one is a citizen.

INCL'ASP, verb transitive To clasp; to hold fast.

IN'CLAVATED, adjective Set; fast fixed.

IN'CLE, noun A kind of tape made of linen yarn.

INCLEM'ENCY, noun [Latin inclementia. See Clemency.]

1. Want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; harshness; severity; applied to persons.

2. Roughness, boisterousness; storminess; or simply raininess; severe cold, etc.; applied to the weather. We were detained by the inclemency of the weather.

INCLEM'ENT, adjective Destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.

1. Rough; stormy; boisterous; rainy; rigorously cold, etc.; as inclement weather; inclement sky.

INCLI'NABLE, adjective [Latin inclinabilis. See Incline.]

1. Leaning; tending; as a tower inclinable to fall.

2. Having a propension of will; leaning in disposition; somewhat disposed; as a mind inclinable to truth.

INCLINA'TION, noun [Latin inclinatio. See Incline.]

1. A leaning; any deviation of a body or line from an upright position, or from a parallel line, towards another body; as the inclination of the head in bowing.

2. In geometry, the angle made by two lines or planes that meet; as, the inclination of axis of the earth to the place of the ecliptic is 23 deg.28 feet.

3. A leaning of the mind or will; propension or propensity; a disposition more favorable to one thing than to another. The prince has no inclination to peace. The bachelor has manifested no inclination to marry. Men have a natural inclination to pleasure.

A mere inclination to a thing is not properly a willing of that thing.

4. Love; affection; regard; desire; with for. Some men have an inclination for music, others for painting.

5. Disposition of mind.

6. The dip of the magnetic needle, or its tendency to incline towards the earth; also, the angle made by the needle with the horizon.

7. The act of decanting liquors by stooping or inclining the vessel.

INCLI'NATORILY, adverb Obliquely; with inclination.

INCLI'NATORY, adjective Having the quality of leaning or inclining.

INCLI'NE, verb transitive [Latin inclino; in and clino; Eng. to lean.]

1. To lean; to deviate from an erect or parallel line toward any object; to tend. Converging lines incline toward each other. A road inclines to the north or south. Connecticut river runs south, inclining in some part of its course to the west, and below middletown, it inclines to the east.

2. To lean; in a moral sense; to have a propension; to be disposed; to have some wish or desire.

Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech. Judges 9:3.

3. To have an appetite; to be disposed; as, to be inclined to eat.

INCLI'NE, verb transitive To cause to deviate from an erect, perpendicular or parallel line; to give a leaning to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.

1. To give a tendency or propension to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose.

Incline our hearts to keep this law.

Incline my heart to thy testimonies. Psalms 119:36.

2. To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility.

INCLI'NED, participle passive Having a leaning or tendency; disposed.

Inclined plane, in mechanics, is a plane that makes an oblique angle with the plane of the horizon; a sloping plane.

INCLI'NER, noun An inclined dial.

INCLI'NING, participle present tense Leaning; causing to lean.

INCLI'NING, adjective Leaning.

INCLIP', verb transitive [in and clip.] To grasp; to inclose; to surround.

INCLOIS'TER, verb transitive [in and cloister.] To shut up or confine in a cloister. [But cloister is generally used.]

INCLO'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin inclusus, includo; in and claudo, or cludo.]

1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; as, to inclose a field with a fence; to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls.

2. To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands.

3. To include; to shut or confine; as, to inclose trinkets in a box.

4. To environ; to encompass.

5. To cover with a wrapper or envelop; to cover under seal; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note.

INCLO'SED, participle passive Surrounded; encompassed; confined on all sides; covered and sealed; fenced.

INCLO'SER, noun He or that which incloses; one who separates land from common grounds by a fence.

INCLO'SING, participle present tense Surrounding; encompassing; shutting in; covering and confining.

INCLO'SURE, noun The act of inclosing.

1. The separation of land from common ground into distinct possessions by a fence.

2. The appropriation of things common.

3. State of being inclosed, shut up or encompasses.

4. A space inclosed or fenced; a space comprehended within certain limits.

5. Ground inclosed or separated from common land.

6. That which is inclosed or contained in an envelop, as a paper.

INCLOUD', verb transitive [in and cloud.] To darken; to obscure.

INCLOUD'ED, participle passive Involved in obscurity.

INCLOUD'ING, participle present tense Darkening; obscuring.

INCLU'DE, verb intransitive [Latin includo; in and cludo, to shut up.]

1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. [But in these senses we more commonly use inclose.]

2. To comprise; to comprehend; to contain. The history of England necessarily includes a portion of that of France. The word duty, includes what we owe to God, to our fellow men, and to ourselves; it includes also a tax payable to the government.

INCLU'DED, participle passive Contained; comprehended.

INCLU'DING, participle present tense Containing; comprising.

INCLU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin inclusio.] The act of including.

INCLU'SIVE, adjective Inclosing; encircling.

1. Comprehended in the number or sum; as form Monday to Saturday inclusive that is, taking in both Monday and Saturday.

INCLU'SIVELY, adverb Comprehending the thing mentioned; as from Monday to Saturday inclusively

INCOAG'ULABLE, adjective [in and coagulable.] That cannot be coagulated or concreted.

INCOER'CIBLE, adjective [in and coercible, from coerce.]

Not to be coerced or compelled; that cannot be forced.

INCOEXIST'ENCE, noun [in and coexistence.] A not existing together. [Not common.]

INCOG', adverb [contracted from incognito.]

In concealment; in disguise; in a manner not to be known.

INCOG'ITANCY, noun [Latin incogitantia; in and cogito, to think.]

Want of thought, or want of the power of thinking.

INCOG'ITANT, adjective Not thinking; thoughtless.

INCOG'ITANTLY, adverb Without consideration.

INCOG'ITATIVE, adjective [in and cogitative.] Not thinking; wanting the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitative being.

INCOG'NITO, adverb [Latin incognitus; in and cognitus, known.]

In concealment; in a disguise of the real person.

INCOGN'IZABLE, adjective incon'izable. [in and cognizable.]

That cannot be recognized, known or distinguished.

The Lettish race, not a primitive stock of the Slavi, but a distinct branch, now become incognizable--

INCOHE'RENCE

INCOHE'RENCY, noun [in and coherence.]

1. Want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence; looseness or unconnected state of parts, as of a powder.

2. Want of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; want of agreement, or dependence of one part on another; as the incoherence of arguments, facts or principles.

3. Inconsistency; that which does not agree with other parts of the same thing.

INCOHE'RENCY, n. [in and coherence.]

INCOHE'RENT, adjective [in and coherent.]

1. Wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; not fixed to each other; applied to material substances.

2. Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; as, the thoughts of a dreaming man, and the language of a madman, are incoherent

INCOHE'RENTLY, adverb Inconsistently; without coherence of parts; as, to talk incoherently

INCOIN'CIDENCE, noun [in and coincidence.]

Want of coincidence or agreement.

INCOIN'CIDENT, adjective [in and coincident.]

Not coincident; not agreeing in time, place or principle.

INCOLU'MITY, noun [Latin incolumitas.] Safety; security.

INCOMBI'NE, verb intransitive To differ.

INCOMBUSTIBIL'ITY, noun [from incombustible.]

The quality of being incapable of being burnt or consumed.

INCOMBUST'IBLE, adjective [in and combustible.] Not to be burnt, decomposed or consumed by fire. Amianth is an incombustible substance.

INCOMBUST'IBLENESS, noun Incombustibility.

IN'COME, noun in'cum. [in and come.] That gain which proceeds from labor, business or property of any kind; the produce of a farm; the rent of houses; the proceeds of professional business; the profits of commerce or of occupation; the interest of money or stock in funds. income is often used synonymously with revenue, but income is more generally applied to the gain of private persons, and revenue to that of a sovereign or of a state. We speak of the annual income of a gentleman, and the annual revenue of the state.

1. A coming in; admission; introduction. [Not in use.]

IN'COMING, adjective Coming in.

IN'COMING, noun [in and come.] Income; gain.

Many incomings are subject to great fluctuations.

INCOMMENSURABIL'ITY, noun [from incommensurable.]

The quality or state of a thing, when it has no common measure with another thing, or when the same thing will not exactly measure both.

INCOMMEN'SURABLE, adjective [in and commensurable.]

Having no common measure. Two lines are incommensurable when, compared to each other, they have no common measure, that is, no measure that will exactly measure both. oth. Quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both.

INCOMMEN'SURATE, adjective [in and commensurate.]

1. Not admitting of a common measure.

2. Not of equal measure or extent; not adequate. Our means are incommensurate to our wants.

INCOMMEN'SURATELY, adverb Not in equal or due measure or proportion.

INCOMMIS'CIBLE, adjective [in and commix.]

That cannot be commixed or mutually mixed.

INCOMMIX'TURE, noun A state of being unmixed.

INCOMMO'DE, verb transitive [Latin incommodo; in and commodo, con and modus.]

To give inconvenience to; to give trouble to; to disturb or molest in the quiet enjoyment of something, or in the facility of acquisition. It denotes less than annoy, vex or harass. We are incommoded by want of room to sit at ease. Visits of strangers at unseasonable hours, incommode a family. Often we are incommoded by a fashionable dress.

INCOMMO'DED, participle passive Put to inconvenience; molested.

INCOMMO'DING, participle present tense Subjecting to trouble or inconvenience.

INCOMMO'DIOUS, adjective [Latin incommodus.] Inconvenient; not affording ease or advantage; unsuitable; giving trouble, without much injury. A seat in church, or the site of a house may be incommodious

INCOMMO'DIOUSLY, adverb In a manner to create inconvenience; inconveniently; unsuitably.

INCOMMO'DIOUSNESS, noun Inconvenience; unsuitableness.

INCOMMOD'ITY, noun [Latin incommoditas.]

Inconvenience; trouble. [Now little used.]

INCOMMUNICABIL'ITY

INCOMMU'NICABLE, adjective [in and communicable.]

1. That cannot be communicated or imparted to others.

2. That cannot or may not be communicated, told or revealed to others.

INCOMMU'NICABLE, a. [in and communicable.]

INCOMMU'NICABLENESS, noun [from incommunicable.]

The quality of not being communicable, or capable of being imparted to another.

INCOMMU'NICABLY, adverb In a manner not to be imparted or communicated.

INCOMMU'NICATED, adjective Not imparted.

INCOMMU'NICATING, adjective Having no communion or intercourse with each other; as an administration in incommunicating hands.

INCOMMU'NICATIVE, adjective Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation.

1. Not disposed to hold communion, fellowship or intercourse with.

The Chinese--an incommunicative nation.

INCOMMUTABIL'ITY

INCOMMU'TABLE, adjective [in and commutable.]

Not to be exchanged or commuted with another.

INCOMMU'TABLE, a. [in and commutable.]

Not to be exchanged or commuted with another.

INCOMMU'TABLENESS, noun The quality of being incommutable.

INCOMMU'TABLY, adverb Without reciprocal change.

INCOMPACT'

INCOMPACT'ED, adjective [in and compact.]

Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid.

INCOMPACT'ED, a. [in and compact.]

Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid.

INCOM'PARABLE, adjective [in and comparable.] That admits of no comparison with others; usually in a good sense, but it may be properly used in a bad sense. When we say, an incomparable man, we mean a man of good qualities, or of some excellence that raises him above comparison or equality with others. So we say, incomparable excellence, virtue, wit, etc. But incomparable baseness or malignity may be used with propriety.

INCOM'PARABLENESS, noun Excellence beyond comparison.

INCOM'PARABLY, adverb Beyond comparison; without competition. Newton was incomparably the greatest philosopher the English nation had produced.

INCOMPA'RED, adjective Not matched; peerless.

INCOMPAS'SIONATE, adjective [in and compassionate.]

Void of compassion or pity; destitute of tenderness.

INCOMPAS'SIONATELY, adverb Without pity or tenderness.

INCOMPAS'SIONATENESS, noun Want of pity.

INCOMPATIBIL'ITY, noun [from incompatible.]

1. Inconsistency; that quality or state of a thing which renders it impossible that it should subsist or be consistent with something else. There is a permanent incompatibility between truth and falsehood.

2. Irreconcilable disagreement. During the revolution in France, incompatibility of temper was deemed a sufficient cause for divorcing man and wife.

INCOMPAT'IBLE, adjective [Latin in and competo, to suit, to be proper or convenient; con and peto, to press toward, to seek, or press on. It was formerly incompetible.]

1. Inconsistent; that cannot subsist with something else. Thus, truth and falsehood are essentially incompatible as are virtue and vice. A degree of cold that congeals water is incompatible with vegetation. Dissipation is incompatible with health, reputation and virtue.

2. Irreconcilably different or disagreeing; incongruous; as incompatible tempers.

3. Legally or constitutionally inconsistent; that cannot be united in the same person, without violating the law or constitution. By our constitution, the offices of a legislator and of a judge are incompatible as they cannot be held at the same time by the same person.

INCOMPAT'IBLY, adverb Inconsistently; incongruously.

INCOM'PETENCE

INCOM'PETENCY, noun

1. Inability; want of sufficient intellectual powers or talents; as the incompetency of infants or idiots.

2. Want of natural adequate strength of body or of suitable faculties; as the incompetency of the eyes to discern the motions of the heavenly bodies.

3. Want of legal or constitutional qualifications; as the incompetency of a witness.

4. Want of adequate means.

5. Insufficiency; inadequacy; as the incompetency of testimony.

INCOM'PETENCY, n.

INCOM'PETENT, adjective [Latin in and competens, competo. See Incompatible.]

1. Wanting adequate powers of mind or suitable faculties; as an incompetent judge. Infancy, derangement, want of learning or dotage may render a person incompetent to fill an office or to transact business.

2. Wanting due strength or suitable faculties; unable.

3. Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications. A person convicted of a crime, is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity.

4. Destitute of means; unable.

5. Inadequate; insufficient; as incompetent testimony.

6. Unfit; improper; legally unavailable.

It is incompetent for the defendant to make this defense.

INCOM'PETENTLY, adverb Insufficiently; inadequately; not suitably.

INCOMPLE'TE, adjective [in and complete.]

Not finished. The building is incomplete

1. Imperfect; defective.

INCOMPLE'TELY, adverb Imperfectly.

INCOMPLE'TENESS, noun An unfinished state; imperfectness; defectiveness.

INCOMPLEX', adjective [in and complex.]

Not complex; uncompounded; simple.

INCOMPLI'ANCE, noun [in and compliance.]

1. Defect of compliance; refusal to comply with solicitations.

2. Untractableness; unyielding temper or constitution.

Self-conceit produces peevishness and incompliance of humor in things lawful and indifferent.

INCOMPLI'ANT, adjective [in and compliant.]

Unyielding to request or solicitation; not disposed to comply.

INCOMPO'SED, adjective [in and composed.] Disordered; disturbed. [But this word is little used. Instead of it we use discomposed.]

INCOM'POSITE, adjective incom'pozit. [in and composite.]

Uncompounded; simple.

INCOMPOSSIBIL'ITY, noun [in and composible.]

The quality of not being possible but by the negation or destruction of something; inconsistency with something. [Little used.]

INCOMPOS'SIBLE, adjective [in, con, and possible.] Not possible to be or subsist with something else. [This and the preceding word are little used, and can hardly be considered as legitimate English words.]

INCOMPREHENSIBIL'ITY, noun [See the next word.]

The quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; inconceivableness.

INCOMPREHENS'IBLE, adjective

1. That cannot be comprehended or understood; That is beyond the reach of human intellect; inconceivable. The nature of spiritual being is incomprehensible to us, or by us.

2. Not to be contained. [Little used.]

INCOMPREHENS'IBLENESS, noun Incomprehensibility, which see.

INCOMPREHENS'IBLY, adverb In a manner which the human mind cannot comprehend or understand; inconceivably.

INCOMPREHEN'SION, noun Want of comprehension or understanding.

INCOMPREHENS'IVE, adjective Not comprehensive; not extensive.

INCOMPRESSIBIL'ITY, noun [See Incompressible.] The quality of resisting compression, or of being incapable of reduction by force into a smaller compass.

INCOMPRESS'IBLE, adjective [in and compressible.] Not to be compressed; not capable of being reduced by force into a smaller compass; resisting compression. Water is not wholly incompressible

INCONCE'ALABLE, adjective [in and concealable]

Not concealable; not to be hid or kept secret.

INCONCE'IVABLE, adjective [in and conceivable.]

1. That cannot be conceived by the mind; incomprehensible. It is inconceivable to us, how the will acts in producing muscular motion.

2. That cannot be understood.

INCONCE'IVABLENESS, noun The quality of being inconceivable; incomprehensibility.

INCONCE'IVABLY, adverb In a manner beyond comprehension, or beyond the reach of human intellect.

INCONCEP'TIBLE, adjective Inconceivable. [Little used.]

INCONCIN'NITY, noun [Latin inconcinnitas.]

Unsuitableness; want of proportion.

INCONCLU'DENT, adjective [Latin in and concludens, concludo, to conclude.]

Not inferring a conclusion or consequence. [Little used.]

INCONCLU'DING, adjective Inferring no consequence.

INCONCLU'SIVE, adjective [in and conclusive.] Not producing a conclusion; not closing, concluding or settling a point in debate or a doubtful question. An argument or evidence is inconclusive when it does not exhibit the truth of a disputed case in such a manner as to satisfy the mind, and put an end to debate or doubt.

INCONCLU'SIVELY, adverb Without such evidence as to determine the understanding in regard to truth or falsehood.

INCONCLU'SIVENESS, noun Want of such evidence as to satisfy the mind of truth or falsehood, and put an end to debate.

INCONCOCT', adjective Inconcocted.

INCONCOCT'ED, adjective [in and concoct.]

Not fully digested; not matured; unripened.

INCONCOC'TION, noun [in and concoction.]

The state of being indigested; unripeness; immaturity.

INCONCUR'RING, adjective [in and concurring, from concur.]

Not concurring; not agreeing.

INCONCUS'SIBLE, adjective That cannot be shaken.

INCONDENSABIL'ITY, noun [See Incondensable.]

The quality of being not condensable.

INCONDENS'ABLE, adjective [in and condensable.]

1. Not capable of condensation; that cannot be made more dense or compact.

2. Not to be converted from a state of vapor to a fluid.

INCON'DITE, adjective [Latin inconditus; in and condo, to build.]

Rude; unpolished; irregular. [Little used.]

INCONDI'TIONAL, adjective [in and conditional.] Without any condition, exception or limitation; absolute. [Not now used. See Unconditional.]

INCONDI'TONATE, adjective [in and condition.]

Not limited or restrained by conditions; absolute. [Not now used.]

INCONFIRMED, for unconfirmed, is not in use.

INCONFORM'ITY, noun [in and conformity.] Want of conformity; incompliance with the practice of others, or with the requisitions of law, rule or custom; non-conformity. [The latter word is more commonly used, especially to express dissent in religion.]

INCONFU'SED, adjective s as z. Not confused; distinct.

INCONFU'SION, noun Distinctness.

INCONGE'NIAL, adjective [in and congenial.]

Not congenial; not of a like nature; unsuitable.

INCONGENIAL'ITY, noun Unlikeness of nature; unsuitableness.

INCON'GRUENCE, noun [in and congruence.] Want of congruence, adaptation or agreement; unsuitableness. [Little used. We now use incongruity.]

INCON'GRUENT, adjective Unsuitable; inconsistent.

INCONGRU'ITY, noun [in and congruity.]

1. Want of congruity; impropriety; inconsistency; absurdity; unsuitableness of one thing to another. The levity of youth in a grave divine, is deemed an incongruity between manners and profession.

2. Disagreement of parts; want of symmetry.

INCON'GRUOUS, adjective [L incongruus.] Not congruous; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper. The dress of a seaman on a judge, would be deemed incongruous with his character and station.

INCON'GRUOUSLY, adverb Unsuitably; unfitly; improperly.

INCONNEC'TION, noun [in and connection.]

Want of connection; loose, disjointed state.

INCON'SCIONABLE, adjective Having no sense of good and evil.

INCON'SEQUENCE, noun [Latin inconsequentia.]

Want of just inference; inconclusiveness.

INCON'SEQUENT, adjective Not following from the premises; without regular inference; as an inconsequent deduction or argument.

INCONSEQUEN'TIAL, adjective Not regularly following from the premises.

1. Not of consequence; not of importance; of little moment.

INCONSID'ERABLE, adjective [in and considerable.] Not worthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial. We speak of an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity or amount; inconsiderable value. No sin is inconsiderable in the sight of a holy God.

INCONSID'ERABLENESS, noun Small importance.

INCONSID'ERABLY, adverb In a small degree; to a small amount; very little.

INCONSID'ERACY, noun Thoughtlessness; want of consideration. [Unusual.]

INCONSID'ERATE, adjective [Latin inconsideratus. See Consider.]

1. Not considerate; not attending to the circumstances which regard safety or propriety; hasty; rash; imprudent; careless; thoughtless; heedless; inattentive. The young are generally inconsiderate

2. Proceeding from heedlessness; rash; as inconsiderate conduct.

3. Not duly regarding; with of, before the subject; as inconsiderate of consequences.

INCONSID'ERATELY, adverb Without due consideration or regard to consequences; heedlessly; carelessly; rashly; imprudently.

INCONSID'ERATENESS, noun Want of due regard to consequences; carelessness; thoughtlessness; inadvertence; inattention; imprudence.

INCONSIDERA'TION, noun Want of due consideration; want of thought; inattention to consequences.

INCONSIST'ENCE

INCONSIST'ENCY, noun [in and consistence.]

1. Such opposition or disagreement as that one proposition infers the negation of the other; such contrariety between things that both cannot subsist together.

There is a perfect inconsistency between that which is of debt and that which is of free gift.

2. Absurdity in argument or narration; argument or narrative where one part destroys the other; self-contradiction.

3. Incongruity; want of agreement or uniformity; as the inconsistency of a man with himself.

4. Unsteadiness; changeableness.

INCONSIST'ENCY, n. [in and consistence.]

INCONSIST'ENT, adjective Incompatible; incongruous; not suitable. Loud laughter in grave company is inconsistent with good breeding. Habitual gloom is inconsistent with health and happiness.

1. Not consistent; contrary, so that one infers the negation or destruction of the other; or so that the truth of one proves the other to be false. Two covenants, one that a man shall have an estate in fee, and the other that he shall hold it for years, are inconsistent

2. Not uniform; being contrary at different times. Men are sometimes inconsistent with themselves.

INCONSIST'ENTLY, adverb With absurdity; incongruously; with self-contradiction; without steadiness or uniformity.

INCONSIST'ENTNESS, noun Inconsistency. [Not in use.]

INCONSIST'ING, adjective Inconsistent. [Not used.]

INCONSO'LABLE, adjective [in and consolable.] Not to be consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort.

INCONSO'LABLY, adverb In a matter or degree that does not admit of consolation.

INCON'SONANCE, noun Disagreement of sounds; discordance.

INCON'SONANCY, noun [in and consonancy.] Disagreement; inconsistency. In music, disagreement of sounds; discordance.

INCON'SONANT, adjective Not agreeing; inconsistent; discordant.

INCONSPIC'UOUS, adjective [in and conspicuous.]

1. Not discernible; not to be perceived by the sight.

2. Not conspicuous.

INCON'STANCY, noun [Latin inconstantia. See Constancy.]

1. Mutability or instability of temper or affection; unsteadiness; fickleness.

2. Want of uniformity; dissimilitude.

INCON'STANT, adjective [Latin inconstans.]

1. Mutable; subject to change of opinion, inclination or purpose; not firm in resolution; unsteady; fickle; used of persons; an inconstant in love or friendship.

2. Mutable; changeable; variable; used of things.

INCON'STANTLY, adverb In an inconstant manner; not steadily.

INCONSU'MABLE, adjective [in and consumable.] Not to be consumed; that cannot be wasted.

INCONSUM'MATE, adjective [in and consummate.]

Not consummate; not finished; not complete.

INCONSUM'MATENESS, noun State of being incomplete.

INCONSUMP'TIBLE, adjective [Latin in and consumptus.]

1. Not to be spent, wasted or destroyed by fire. [Not used.]

2. Not to be destroyed. [Not used.]

INCONTEST'ABLE, adjective Not contestable; not to be disputed; not admitting debate; too clear to be controverted; incontrovertible; as incontestable evidence, truth or facts.

INCONTEST'ABLY, adverb In a manner to preclude debate; indisputably; incontrovertibly; indubitably.

INCONTIG'UOUS, adjective [in and contiguous.]

Not contiguous; not adjoining; not touching; separate.

INCON'TINENCE

INCON'TINENCY, noun [Latin incontinentia. See Continence.]

1. Want of restraint of the passions or appetites; free or uncontrolled indulgence of the passions or appetites, as of anger.

2. Want of restraint of the sexual appetite; free or illegal indulgence of lust; lewdness; used of either sex, but appropriately of the male sex. incontinence in men is the same as unchastity in women.

3. Among physicians, the inability of any of the animal organs to restrain discharges of their contents, so that the discharges are involuntary; Also, the involuntary discharge itself; as an incontinence of urine in diabetes.

INCON'TINENCY, n. [L. incontinentia. See Continence.]

INCON'TINENT, adjective [Latin incontinens.] Not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging lust without restraint or in violation of law; unchaste; lewd.

1. Unable to restrain discharges.

In the sense of immediate or immediately, obs.

INCON'TINENT, noun One who is unchaste.

INCON'TINENTLY, adverb Without due restraint of the passions or appetites; unchastely.

1. Immediately.

INCONTRACT'ED, adjective Not contracted; not shortened.

INCONTROLLABLE, adjective [in and controllable.]

Not to be controlled; that cannot be restrained or governed; uncontrollable.

INCONTROLLABLY, adverb In a manner that admits of no control.

INCONTROVERT'IBLE, adjective [in and controvertible.]

Indisputable; too clear or certain to admit of dispute.

INCONTROVERT'IBLY, adverb In a manner or to a degree that precludes debate or controversy.

INCONVE'NIENCE

INCONVE'NIENCY, noun [Latin inconveniens; in and convenio, conveniens.]

1. Unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpedience.

They plead against the inconvenience not the unlawfulness of popish apparel.

2. That which gives trouble or uneasiness; disadvantage; any thing that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success. Rain and bad roads are inconveniences to the traveler; want of utensils is a great inconvenience to a family; but the great inconvenience of human life is the want of money and the means of obtaining it.

INCONVE'NIENCY, n. [L.inconveniens; in and convenio, conveniens.]

INCONVE'NIENT, adjective [Latin supra.]

1. Incommodious; unsuitable; disadvantageous; giving trouble or uneasiness; increasing the difficulty of progress or success; as an inconvenient dress or garment; an inconvenient house; inconvenient customs; an inconvenient arrangement of business.

2. Unfit; unsuitable.

INCONVE'NIENTLY, adverb Unsuitably; incommodiously; in a manner to give trouble; unseasonably.

INCONVERS'ABLE, adjective [in and conversable.] Not inclined to free conversation; incommunicative; unsocial; reserved.

INCON'VERSANT, adjective Not conversant; not familiar; not versed.

INCONVERTIBIL'ITY, noun [from inconvertible.] The quality of not being changeable or convertible into something else; as the inconvertibility of bank notes or other currency into gold or silver.

INCONVERT'IBLE, adjective [in and convertible.] Not convertible; that cannot be transmuted or changed into something else. One metal is inconvertible into another. Bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie.

INCONVIN'CIBLE, adjective [in and convincible.] Not convincible; that cannot be convinced; not capable of conviction.

INCONVIN'CIBLY, adverb In a manner not admitting of conviction.

INCO'NY, adjective or noun Unlearned; artless; an accomplished person, in contempt.

INCOR'PORAL, adjective [in and corporal. Not consisting of matter or body; immaterial. [Incorporeal is generally used.]

INCORPORAL'ITY, noun The quality of not consisting of matter; immateriality.

INCOR'PORALLY, adverb Without matter or a body; immaterially.

INCOR'PORATE, adjective [in and corporate.]

1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body. [Little used.]

2. Mixed; united in one body; associated.

INCOR'PORATE, verb transitive [Latin incorporo; in and corpus, a body.]

1. In pharmacy, to mix different ingredients in one mass or body; to reduce dry substances to the consistence of paste by the admixture of a fluid, as in making pills, etc.

2. To mix and embody one substance in another; as, to incorporate copper with silver.

3. To unite; to blend; to work into another mass or body; as, to incorporate plagiarisms into one's own composition.

4. To unite; to associate in another government or empire. The Romans incorporated conquered countries into their government.

5. To embody; to give a material form to.

The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.

6. To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute a body, composed of one or more individuals, with the quality of perpetual existence or succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation; as, to incorporate the inhabitants of a city, town or parish; to incorporate the proprietors of a bridge, the stockholders of a bank, of an insurance company, etc. New Haven was incorporated in January 1784; Hartford in May 1784.

INCOR'PORATE, verb intransitive To unite so as to make a part of another body; to be mixed or blended; to grow into, etc.; usually followed by with.

Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate with oil.

INCOR'PORATED, participle passive Mixed or united in one body; associated in the same political body; united in a legal body.

INCOR'PORATING, participle present tense Mixing or uniting in one body or mass; associating in the same political body; forming a legal body.

INCORPORA'TION, noun The act of incorporating.

1. Union of different ingredients in one mass.

2. Association in the same political body; as the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic.

3. Formation of a legal or political body by the union of individuals, constituting and artificial person.

INCORPO'REAL, adjective [Latin incorporalis, incorporeus.]

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; immaterial. Spirits are deemed incorporeal substances.

INCORPO'REALLY, adverb Without body; immaterially.

INCORPORE'ITY, noun The quality of being not material; immateriality.

INCORPSE, verb transitive incorps'. To incorporate.

INCORRECT', adjective [in and correct.] Not correct; not exact; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty.

The piece, you think, is incorrect

1. Not according to truth; inaccurate; as an incorrect statement, narration or calculation.

2. Not according to law or morality.

INCORREC'TION, noun Want of correction.

INCORRECT'LY, adverb Not in accordance with truth or other standard; inaccurately; not exactly; as a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.

INCORRECT'NESS, noun Want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy. incorrectness may consist in defect or in redundance.

INCORRIGIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being bad, erroneous or depraved beyond correction; hopeless depravity in persons and error in things.

INCOR'RIGIBLE, adjective [Latin corrigo; con and rego.]

1. That cannot be corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; as incorrigible error.

2. Too depraved to be corrected or reformed; as an incorrigible sinner; an incorrigible drunkard.

INCOR'RIGIBL'ENESS

INCOR'RIGIBLY, adverb To a degree of depravity beyond all means of amendment.

INCOR'RIGIBLY, adv. To a degree of depravity beyond all means of amendment.

INCORRUPT'

INCORRUPT'ED, adjective [Latin incorruptus; in and corrumpo, corruptus; con and rumpo, to break.] Not corrupt; not marred, impaired or spoiled; not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; applicable to persons, principles or substances.

INCORRUPT'ED, a. [L. incorruptus; in and corrumpo, corruptus; con and rumpo, to break.] Not corrupt; not marred, impaired or spoiled; not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; applicable to persons, principles or substances.

INCORRUPTIBIL'ITY, noun [from incorruptible.]

The quality of being incapable of decay or corruption.

INCORRUPT'IBLE, adjective

1. That cannot corrupt or decay; not admitting of corruption. Thus gold, glass, mercury, etc., are incorruptible Spirits are supposed to be incorruptible

Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances.

2. That cannot be bribed; inflexibly just and upright.

INCORRUPT'IBLENESS, noun The quality of being incorruptible, or not liable to decay.

INCORRUP'TION, noun [in and corruption.] Incapacity of being corrupted.

It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption 1 Corinthians 15:42.

INCORRUPT'IVE, adjective Not liable to corruption or decay.

INCORRUPT'NESS, noun Exemption from decay or corruption.

1. Purity of mind or manners; probity; integrity; honesty.

INCRAS'SATE, verb transitive [Latin incrasso, incrassatus; in and crassus, thick.]

1. To make thick or thicker; to thicken; the contrary to attenuate.

2. In pharmacy, to make fluids thicker by the mixture of other substances less fluid, or by evaporating the thinner parts.

Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate

INCRAS'SATE, verb intransitive To become thick or thicker.

INCRAS'SATE

INCRAS'SATED, adjective In botany, thickened or becoming thicker towards the flower, as a peduncle.

1. Fattened.

INCRAS'SATED, participle passive Made thick or thicker.

INCRAS'SATING, participle present tense Rendering thick or thicker; growing thicker.

INCRASSA'TION, noun The act of thickening, or state of becoming thick or thicker.

INCRAS'SATIVE, adjective Having the quality of thickening.

INCRAS'SATIVE, noun That which has the power to thicken.

INCRE'ASABLE, adjective That may be increased.

INCRE'ASE, verb intransitive [Latin incresco; in and cresco, to grow.]

1. To become greater in bulk or quantity; to grow; to augment; as plants. Hence, to become more in number; to advance in value, or in any quality good or bad. Animal and vegetable bodies increase by natural growth; wealth increases by industry; heat increases, as the sun advances towards the meridian; a multitude increases by accession of numbers; knowledge increases with age and study; passion and enmity increase by irritation, and misery increases with vice.

The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another. 1 Thessalonians 3:12.

2. To become more violent; as, the fever increases; the pain increases; cold, wind or a storm increases.

3. To become more bright or vivid; as, the light increases.

4. To swell; to rise.

The waters increased and bore up the ark. Genesis 7:17.

5. To swell; to become louder, as sound.

6. To become of more esteem and authority.

He must increase but I must decrease. John 3:30.

7. To enlarge, as the enlightened part of the moon's disk.

INCRE'ASE, verb transitive To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity or amount; as, to increase wealth or treasure; to increase a sum or value.

1. To advance in quality; to add to any quality or affection; as, to increase the strength of moral habits; to increase love, zeal or passion.

2. To extend; to lengthen; as, to increase distance.

3. To extend; to spread; as, to increase fame or renown.

4. To aggravate; as, to increase guilt or trespass.

INCRE'ASE, noun Augmentation; a growing larger; extension.

Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. Isaiah 9:7.

1. Increment; profit; interest; that which is added to the original stock.

Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God. Leviticus 25:7.

2. Produce, as of land.

Then shall the earth yield her increase Psalms 67:6.

3. Progeny; issue; offspring.

All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. 1 Samuel 2:33.

4. Generation.

5. The waxing of the moon; the augmentation of the luminous part of the moon, presented to the inhabitants of the earth.

Seeds, hair, nails, hedges and herbs will grow soonest, if set or cut in the increase of the moon.

6. Augmentation of strength or violence; as increase of heat, love or other passion; increase of force.

7. Augmentation of degree; as increase of happiness or misery.

INCRE'ASED, participle passive Augmented; made or grown larger.

INCRE'ASEFUL, adjective Abundant of produce.

INCRE'ASER, noun He or that which increases.

INCRE'ASING, participle present tense Growing; becoming larger; advancing in any quality, good or bad.

INCREA'TE

INCREA'TED, adjective Uncreated, which see. [The latter is the word mostly used.]

INCREA'TED, a. Uncreated, which see. [The latter is the word mostly used.]

INCREDIBIL'ITY, noun [See Incredible.] The quality of surpassing belief, or of being too extraordinary to admit of belief.

INCRED'IBLE, adjective [Latin incredibilis; in and credibilis, credible.]

That cannot be believed; not to be credited; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief.

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? Acts 26:8.

INCRED'IBLENESS, noun Incredibility, which see.

INCRED'IBLY, adverb In a manner to preclude belief.

INCREDU'LITY, noun The quality of not believing; indisposition to believe; a withholding or refusal of belief.

Of every species of incredulity religious unbelief is infinitely the most irrational.

INCRED'ULOUS, adjective [Latin incredulus; in and credulus; credo, to believe.] Not believing; indisposed to admit the truth of what is related; refusing or withholding belief.

INCRED'ULOUSNESS, noun Incredulity, which see.

INCREM'ABLE, adjective [Latin in and cremo.] That cannot be burnt. [not used.]

IN'CREMENT, noun [Latin incrementum, from incresco. See Increase.]

1. Increase; a growing in bulk, quantity, number, value or amount; augmentation.

2. Produce; production.

3. Matter added; increase.

4. In mathematics, the quantity by which a variable quantity increases; a differential quantity.

IN'CREPATE, verb transitive [Latin increpo.] To chide; to rebuke. [Not in use.]

INCREPA'TION, noun A chiding or rebuking; rebuke; reprehension.

INCRES'CENT, adjective [Latin increscens. See Increase.]growing; augmenting; swelling.

INCRIM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin in and criminor, to accuse. See Crime.]

To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault.

INCRUENT'AL, adjective [Latin incruentus.] Unbloody; not attended with blood. [Not in use.]

INCRUST', verb transitive [Latin incrusto; in and crusto, to crust.

To cover with a crust or with a hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of any substance; as iron incrusted with oxyd or rust; a vessel incrusted with salt.

INCRUST'ATE, verb transitive To incrust. [Less frequently used.]

INCRUSTA'TION, noun [Latin incrustatio.]

1. A crust or rough coat of any thing on the surface of a body.

2. A covering or lining of marble or other stone.

INCRYS'TALIZABLE, adjective [in and crystalizable.]

That will not crystalize; that cannot be formed into crystals.

IN'CUBATE, verb intransitive [Latin incubo; in and cubo, to lie down.] To sit, as on eggs for hatching.

INCUBA'TION, noun [Latin incubatio.] The act of sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young.

INCU'BATURE, noun Incubation. [Not used.]

IN'CUBUS, noun [Latin incubo, to lie on.]

1. The nightmare; an oppression of the breast in sleep, or sense of weight, with an almost total loss of the power of moving the body, while the imagination is frightened or astonished.

2. A demon; an imaginary being or fairy.

INCULC'ATE, verb transitive [Latin inculco, to drive or force on; in and calco, to tread, calx, the heel.] To impress by frequent admonitions; to teach and enforce by frequent repetitions; to urge on the mind. Our Savior inculcates on his followers humility and forgiveness of injuries.

INCULC'ATED, participle passive Impressed or enforced by frequent admonitions.

INCULC'ATING, participle present tense Impressing or enforcing by repeated instruction.

INCULCA'TION, noun The action of impressing by repeated admonitions.

INCULP'ABLE, adjective [Latin in and culpabilis, from culpa, a fault.]

Without fault; unblamable; that cannot be accused.

INCULP'ABLENESS, noun Unblamableness.

INCULP'ABLY, adjective Unblamably; without blame.

INCULT', adjective [Latin incultus; in and cultus, from colo.]

Untilled; uncultivated.

INCUL'TIVATED, adjective Not cultivated; uncultivated.

INCULTIVA'TION, noun Neglect or want of cultivation.

INCUL'TURE, noun Want or neglect of cultivation.

INCUM'BENCY, noun [from incumbent.] A lying or resting on something.

1. The state of holding or being in possession of a benefice, or of an office.

These fines are to be paid to the bishop, only during his incumbency

There is no test of the tenure, but incumbency on the part of the king.

INCUM'BENT, adjective [Latin incumbens, incumbo; in and cumbo, to lie down.]

1. Lying or resting on.

And when to move th'incumbent load they try.

2. Supported; buoyed up.

And fly incumbent on the dusky air.

3. Leaning on, or resting against; as incumbent stamens or anthers, in botany.

4. Lying on, as duty or obligation; imposed and emphatically urging or pressing to performance; indispensable.

All men, truly zealous, will perform those good works which are incumbent on all christians.

INCUM'BENT, noun The person who is in present possession of a benefice, or of any office. [It is applied to civil officers as well as to ecclesiastical.]

INCUM'BER, verb transitive To burden with a load; to embarrass. [See Encumber, and its derivatives.]

INCUM'BRANCE, noun A burdensome and troublesome load; any thing that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; embarrassment.

1. A legal claim on the estate of another.

INCUM'BRANCER, noun One who has an incumbrance, or some legal claim on an estate.

INCUM'BROUS, adjective Cumbersome; troublesome.

INCUR', verb transitive [Latin incurro, to run against; in and curro, to run.]

1. Literally, to run against; hence, to become liable to; to become subject to. Thus, a thief incurs the punishment of the law by the act of stealing, before he is convicted, and we have all incurred the penalties of God's law.

2. To bring on; as, to incur a debt; to incur guilt; to incur the displeasure of God; to incur blame or censure.

3. To occur; to meet; to press on.

INCURABIL'ITY, noun The state of being incurable; impossibility of cure; insusceptibility of cure or remedy.

INCU'RABLE, adjective

1. That cannot be cured; not admitting of cure; beyond the power of skill or medicine; as an incurable disease.

2. Not admitting remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as incurable evils.

INCU'RABLE, noun A person diseased beyond the reach of cure.

INCU'RABLENESS, noun The state of not admitting cure or remedy.

INCU'RABLY, adverb In a manner or degree that renders cure impracticable.

INCURIOS'ITY, noun Want of curiosity; inattentiveness; indifference.

INCU'RIOUS, adjective [in and curious.] Destitute of curiosity; not curious or inquisitive; inattentive.

INCU'RIOUSNESS, noun Want of curiosity or inquisitiveness.

INCUR'RED, participle passive Brought on.

INCUR'RING, participle present tense Becoming subject or liable to; bringing on.

INCUR'SION, noun [Latin incursio, from incurro. See Incur.]

1. Literally, a running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; an inroad; applied to the expeditions of small parties or detachments of an enemy's army, entering a territory for attack, plunder or destruction of a post or magazine. Hence it differs from invasion, which is the hostile entrance of any army for conquest. During the revolution, the British troops made an incursion to Danbury, and destroyed the magazines. In opposing this incursion Gen. Wooster was killed.

2. Attack; occurrence; as sins of daily incursion [Unusual.]

INCURV'ATE, verb transitive [Latin incurvo; in and curvus, bent.]

To bend; to crook; to turn from a right line or straight course.

INCURV'ATE, adjective Curved inwards or upwards.

INCURV'ATED, participle passive Bent; turned from a rectilinear direction.

INCURV'ATING, participle present tense Bending; turning from a right line.

INCURVA'TION, noun The act of bending.

1. The state of being bent, or turned from a rectilinear course; curvity; crookedness.

2. The act of bowing, or bending the body in respect or reverence.

INCURVE, verb transitive incurv'. To bend; to make crooked.

INCURV'ITY, noun [Latin incurvus.] A state of being bent or crooked; crookedness; a bending inward.

IN'DAGATE, verb transitive [Latin indago.] To seek or search out. [Not used.]

INDAGA'TION, noun The act of searching; search; inquiry; examination. [Little used.]

IN'DAGATOR, noun A searcher; one who seeks or inquires with diligence. [Little used.]

IND'ART, verb transitive [in and dart.] To dart in; to thrust or strike in.

Indebitatus assumpsit. [See Assumpsit.]

INDEBT, a verb, is never used.

INDEBT'ED, adjective indet'ted.

1. Being in debt; having incurred a debt; held or obliged to pay. A is indebted to B; he is indebted in a large sum, or to a large amount.

2. Obliged by something received, for which restitution or gratitude is due. We are indebted in our parents for their care of us in infancy and youth. We are indebted to God for life. We are indebted to the christian religion for many of the advantages, and much of the refinement of modern times.

INDEBT'EDNESS, noun indet'tedness. The state of being indebted.

INDEBT'MENT, noun indet'ment. The state of being indebted. [Little used.]

INDE'CENCY, noun [Latin indecens, indeceo; in and deceo, to become.]

That which is unbecoming in language or manners; any action or behavior which is deemed a violation of modesty, or an offense to delicacy, as rude or wanton actions, obscene language, and whatever tends to excite a blush in a spectator. Extreme assurance or impudence may also be deemed indecency of behavior towards superiors. [See Indecorum.]

INDE'CENT, adjective [Latin indecens.] Unbecoming; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as indecent language; indecent manners; an indecent posture or gesture.

INDE'CENTLY, adverb In a manner to offend modesty or delicacy.

INDECID'UOUS, adjective [in and deciduous.]

Not falling, as the leaves of trees in autumn; lasting; evergreen.

INDEC'IMABLE, adjective Not liable to the payment of tithes.

INDECIS'ION, noun s as z. [in and decision.] Want of decision; want of settled purpose or of firmness in the determinations of the will; a wavering of mind; irresolution.

INDECI'SIVE, adjective [in and decisive.] Not decisive; not bringing to a final close or ultimate issue; as an indecisive battle or engagement; an argument indecisive of the question.

1. Unsettled; wavering; vacillating; hesitating; as an indecisive state of mind; an indecisive character.

INDECI'SIVELY, adverb Without decision.

INDECI'SIVENESS, noun The state of being undecided; unsettled state; state of not being brought to a final issue.

INDECLI'NABLE, adjective [Latin indeclinabilis; in and declino.]

Not declinable; not varied by terminations; as, pondo, in Latin, is an indeclinable noun.

INDECLI'NABLY, adverb Without variation.

INDECOMPO'SABLE, adjective s as z. [in and decomposable, decompose.]

Not capable of decomposition, or of being resolved into the primary constituent elements.

INDECOMPO'SABLENESS, noun Incapableness of decomposition.

INDEC'OROUS, adjective [Latin indecorus; in and decor, decus, deceo, to become.] Unbecoming; violating good manners; contrary to the established rules of good breeding, or to the forms of respect which age and station require. It is indecorous in a young person to take the highest place in company, when his superiors are present. indecorous is sometimes equivalent to indecent; but it is less frequently applied to actions which offend modesty and chastity.

INDEC'OROUSLY, adverb In an unbecoming manner.

INDEC'OROUSNESS, noun Violation of good manners in words or behavior.

INDECO'RUM, noun [Latin in and decorum.] Impropriety of behavior; that in behavior or manners which violates the established rules of civility, or the duties of respect which age or station requires; an unbecoming action. It is sometimes synonymous with indecency; but indecency, more frequently than indecorum is applied to words or actions which refer to what nature and propriety require to be concealed or suppressed.

INDEE'D, adverb [in and deed.] In reality; in truth; in fact.

The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Romans 8:7.

Indeed is usually emphatical, but in some cases more so than in others; as, this is true; it is indeed

I were a beast indeed to do you wrong.

Some sons indeed; some very few we see,

Who keep themselves from this infection free.

There is indeed no greater pleasure in visiting these

magazines of war--

It is used to note concession or admission; as, ships not so large indeed but better manned.

Indeed is used as an expression of surprise, or for the purpose of obtaining confirmation of a fact stated. Indeed! is it possible? is it so in fact?

INDEFAT'IGABLE, adjective [Latin indefatigabilis; in and defatigo, fatigo, to fatigue.] Unwearied; not tired; not exhausted by labor; not yielding to fatigue; as indefatigable exertions; indefatigable attendance or perseverance.

Upborne with indefatigable wings.

INDEFAT'IGABLENESS, noun Unweariedness; persistency.

INDEFAT'IGABLY, adverb Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue.

INDEFATIGA'TION, noun Unweariedness. [Not used.]

INDEFEASIBIL'ITY, noun [from indefeasible.] The quality or state of being not subject to be made void; as the indefeasibility of a title.

INDEFE'ASIBLE, adjective s as z. [in and defeasible; facio.]

Not to be defeated; that cannot be made void; as an indefeasible estate or title.

INDEFE'ASIBLY, adverb In a manner not to be defeated or made void.

INDEFECTIBIL'ITY, noun [from indefectible.]

The quality of being subject to no defect or decay.

INDEFECT'IBLE, adjective [in and defect.] Unfailing; not liable to defect, failure or decay.

INDEFECT'IVE, adjective Not defective; perfect; complete.

INDEFE'ISIBLE, adjective Indefeasible. [Not used.]

INDEFENSIBIL'ITY, noun [form indefensible.]

The quality or state of not being capable of defense or vindication.

INDEFENS'IBLE, adjective [in and defensible, from defend.]

1. That cannot be defended or maintained. A military post may be indefensible A bad cause is indefensible

2. Not to be vindicated or justified. An improper action or indecent expression is indefensible

INDEFENS'IVE, adjective Having no defense.

INDEFI'CIENCY, noun The quality of not being deficient, or of suffering no delay.

INDEFI'CIENT, adjective Not deficient; not failing; perfect.

INDEFI'NABLE, adjective That cannot be defined.

INDEF'INITE, adjective [Latin indefinitus; in and definitus, definio, to define; de and finio, to end, finis, end.]

1. Not limited or defined; not determinate; not precise or certain; as an indefinite time. An indefinite proposition, term or phrase, is one which has not a precise meaning or limited signification.

2. That has no certain limits, or to which the human mind can affix none, as indefinite space. A space may be indefinite though not infinite.

INDEF'INITELY, adverb Without any settled limitation; as space indefinitely extended.

1. Not precisely; not with certainty or precision; as, to use a word indefinitely

INDEF'INITENESS, noun The quality of being undefined, unlimited, or not precise and certain.

INDEFIN'ITUDE, noun Quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite. [Not used.]

INDELIB'ERATE, adjective [in and deliberate.] Done or performed without deliberation or consideration; sudden; unpremeditated; as the indeliberate commission of sin.

INDELIB'ERATELY, adverb Without deliberation or premeditation.

INDELIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being indelible.

INDEL'IBLE, adjective [Latin indelebilis; in and delebilis, from deleo, to blot out.]

1. Not to be blotted out; that cannot be effaced or canceled; as indelible letters or characters. indelible ink is such as cannot be taken out of paper or cloth, or not by ordinary means.

2. Not to be annulled.

They are endued with indelible power from above, to feed and govern this household. [Unusual.]

3. That cannot be effaced or lost; as, impressions on the mind may be indelible; reproach or stain on reputation may be indelible

INDEL'IBLY, adverb In a manner not to be blotted out or effaced; too deeply imprinted to be effaced, or to vanish.

INDEL'ICACY, noun [in and delicacy.] Want of delicacy; want of decency in language or behavior, regarding what nature and manners

require to be concealed.

1. Want of a nice sense of propriety, or nice regard to refinement in manners or in the treatment of others; rudeness; coarseness of manners or language; that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind.

INDEL'ICATE, adjective Wanting delicacy; indecent; but it expresses less than indecent; as an indelicate word or expression; indelicate behavior; indelicate customs.

1. Offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind.

INDEL'ICATELY, adverb Indecently; in a manner to offend against good manners or purity of mind.

INDEMNIFICA'TION, noun [from indemnify.]

1. The act of indemnifying, saving harmless, or securing against loss, damage or penalty.

2. Security against loss.

3. Reimbursement of loss, damage or penalty.

INDEM'NIFIED, participle passive Saved harmless; secured against damage.

INDEM'NIFY, verb transitive [in and damnify; Latin damnificus; damnum, loss.]

1. To save harmless; to secure against loss, damage or penalty.

2. To make good; to reimburse to one what he has lost. We indemnify a man, by giving sufficient security to make good a future loss, or by actual reimbursement of loss, after it has occurred.

INDEM'NIFYING, participle present tense Saving harmless; securing against loss; reimbursing loss.

INDEM'NITY, noun [Latin in and damnum, loss.]

1. Security given to save harmless; a writing or pledge by which a person is secured against future loss.

2. Security against punishment.

INDEMON'STRABLE, adjective [in and demonstrable.]

That cannot be demonstrated.

INDENIZA'TION, noun The act of naturalizing, or the patent by which a person is made free.

IN'DENIZE, verb transitive To endenize, which see.

INDEN'IZEN, verb transitive To invest with the privileges of a free citizen.

INDENT', verb transitive [Latin dens, a tooth.]

1. To notch; to jag; to cut any margin into points or inequalities, like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

The margins--are indented.

2. To bind out by indentures or contract; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.

INDENT', verb intransitive To contract; to bargain or covenant. [From the practice of using indented writings or counterparts.]

INDENT', noun Incisure; a cut or notch in the margin of any thing, or a recess like a notch.

1. A stamp.

IN'DENT, noun A certificate or indented certificate issued by the government of the United States at the close of the revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.

INDENTA'TION

INDENT'ED, participle passive Cut in the edge into points, like teeth.

1. Bound out by indented writings; as an indented apprentice or servant.

2. Bound out by writings, or covenants in writing. [The practice of indenting writings is in some places discontinued, but the term remains in use.]

INDENT'ED, pp. Cut in the edge into points, like teeth.

INDENT'ING, participle present tense Cutting into notches.

1. Binding out by covenants in writing.

INDENT'MENT, noun Indenture.

INDENT'MENT, noun A notch; a cut in the margin of paper or other things.

1. A recess or depression in any border.

INDENT'URE, noun A writing containing a contract. Indentures are generally duplicates, laid together and indented, so that the two papers or parchments correspond to each other. But indenting is often neglected, while the writings or counterparts retain the name of indentures.

INDENT'URE, verb transitive To indent; to bind by indentures; as, to indenture an apprentice.

INDEPEND'ENCE, noun [in and dependence.]

1. A state of being not dependent; complete exemption from control, or the power of others; as the independence of the Supreme Being.

2. A state in which a person does not rely on others for subsistence; ability to support one's self.

3. A state of mind in which a person acts without bias or influence from others; exemption from undue influence; self-direction. independence of mind is an important qualification in a judge.

Declaration of independence the solemn declaration of the Congress of the United States of America, on the 4th of July 1776, by which they formally renounced their subjection to the government of Great Britain.

INDEPEND'ENT, adjective [in and dependent.]

1. Not dependent; not subject to the control of others; not subordinate. God is the only being who is perfectly independent

2. Not holding or enjoying possessions at the will of another; not relying on others; not dependent. We all wish to be independent in property; yet few men are wholly independent even in property, and none independent for the supply of their wants.

3. Affording the means of independence; as an independent estate.

4. Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as a man of an independent mind.

5. Not connected with. It is believed the soul may exist independent of matter.

6. Free; easy; self-commanding; bold; unconstrained; as an independent air or manner.

7. Separate from; exclusive.

I mean the account of that obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement.

8. Pertaining to an independent or congregational church. It is followed by of or on, both of which are well authorized. On is most conformable to analogy, for it always follows depend, but of is most common.

INDEPEND'ENT, noun One who, in religious affairs, maintains that every congregation of christians is a complete church, subject to no superior authority, and competent to perform every act of government in ecclesiastical affairs.

INDEPEND'ENTLY, adverb Without depending or relying on others; without control.

1. Without undue bias or influence; not obsequiously.

2. Without connection with other things.

INDEP'RECABLE, adjective That cannot be deprecated.

INDEPREHENS'IBLE, adjective That cannot be found out.

INDEPRI'VABLE, adjective That cannot be deprived.

INDESCRI'BABLE, adjective That cannot be described.

INDESCRIP'TIVE, adjective Not descriptive or containing just description.

INDESERT', noun s as z. [in and desert.] Want of merit or worth.

INDES'INENT, adjective [Latin in and desino, to cease; de and sino.]

Not ceasing; perpetual.

INDES'INENTLY, adverb Without cessation.

INDESTRUCTIBIL'ITY, noun [from indestructible.]

The quality of resisting decomposition, or of being incapable of destruction.

INDESTRUC'TIBLE, adjective [in and destructible.] That cannot be destroyed; incapable of decomposition; as a material substance.

INDETERM'INABLE, adjective [in and determinable.]

1. That cannot be determined ascertained or fixed.

2. Not to be determined or ended.

INDETERM'INATE, adjective [in and determinate.]

1. Not determinate; not settled or fixed; not definite; uncertain; as an indeterminate number of years.

2. Not certain; not precise.

INDETERM'INATELY, adverb Not in any settled manner; indefinitely; not with precise limits; as a space indeterminately large.

1. Not with certainty or precision of signification; as an idea indeterminately expressed.

INDETERM'INATENESS, noun Indefiniteness; want of certain limits; want of precision.

INDETERMINA'TION, noun [in and determination.]

1. Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind.

2. Want of fixed or stated direction.

INDETERM'INED, adjective [in and determined.]

Undetermined; unsettled; unfixed.

INDEVO'TE, adjective Not devoted.

INDEVO'TED, adjective Not devoted.

INDEVO'TION, noun Want of devotion; absence of devout affections.

INDEVOUT, adjective Not devout; not having devout affections.

INDEVOUT'LY, adverb Without devotion.

IN'DEX, noun plural indexes, sometimes indices. [Latin connected with idico, to show; in and dico.]

1. That which points out; that which shows or manifests.

Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.

2. The hand that points to any thing, as the hour of the day, the road to a place.

3. A table of the contents of a book.

A table of references in an alphabetical order.

4. In anatomy, the fore finger, or pointing finger.

5. In arithmetic and algebra, that which shows to what power any quantity is involved; the exponent.

6. The index of a globe, or the gnomon, is a little style fitted on the north pole, which by turning with the globe, serves to point to certain divisions of the hour circle.

7. In music, a direct, which see.

Index expurgatory, in catholic countries, a catalogue of prohibited books.

INDEX'ICAL, adjective Having the form of an index; pertaining to an index.

INDEX'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of an index.

INDEXTER'ITY, noun [in and dexterity.]

1. Want of dexterity or readiness in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness.

2. Want of skill or readiness in any art or occupation.

IN'DIA, noun A country in Asia, so named from the river Indus.

IN'DIAN, adjective [from India, and this from Indus, the name of a river in Asia.] Pertaining to either of the Indies, East or West.

IN'DIAN, noun A general name of any native of the Indies; as an East indian or West indian it is particularly applied to any native of the American continent.

INDIAN Arrow Root, noun A plant of the genus Maranta.

INDIAN, Berry, noun A plant of the genus Menispermum.

INDIAN Bread, noun A plant of the genus Jatropha.

INDIAN Corn, noun A plant, the maiz, of the genus Zea; a native of American.

INDIAN Cress, noun A plant of the genus Tropaeolum.

INDIAN, Fig, noun A plant of the genus Cactus.

INDIAN Ink, noun A substance brought from China, used for water colors. It is in rolls or in square cakes, and is said to consist of lampblack and animal glue.

IN'DIANITE, noun [from India.] A mineral occurring in masses having a foliated structure and shining luster. Its color is white or gray.

INDIAN, Reed, noun A plant of the genus Canna.

INDIAN, Red, noun A species of ocher, a very fine purple earth, of a firm, compact texture and great weight.

INDIA Rubber, noun The caoutchouc, a substance of extraordinary elasticity, called also elastic gum or resin. It is produced by incision from the syringe tree of Cayenne.

IN'DICANT, noun [Latin indicans; in and dico, to show.]

Showing; pointing out what is to be done for the cure of disease.

IN'DICATE, verb transitive [Latin indico; in and dico, to show.]

1. To show; to point out; to discover; to direct the mind to a knowledge of something not seen, or something that will probably occur in future. Thus, fermentation indicates a certain degree of heat in a liquor. A heavy swell of the sea in calm weather often indicates a storm at a distance. A particular kind of cloud in the west at evening, indicates the approach of rain.

2. To tell; to disclose.

3. In medicine, to show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.

IN'DICATED, participle passive Shown; pointed out; directed.

IN'DICATING, participle present tense Showing; pointing out; directing.

INDICA'TION, noun The act of pointing out.

1. Mark; token; sign; symptom; whatever serves to discover what is not before known, or otherwise obvious.

The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places, are plain indications of their weariness.

2. In medicine, any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.

3. Discovery made; intelligence given.

4. Explanation; display. [Little used.]

INDIC'ATIVE, adjective [Latin indicativus.] Showing; giving intimation or knowledge of something not visible or obvious. Reserve is not always indicative of modesty; it may be indicative of prudence.

1. In grammar, the indicative mode is the form of the verb that indicates, that is, which affirms or denies; as, he writes, he is writing; they run; we misimprove advantages. It also asks questions; as, has the mail arrived?

INDIC'ATIVELY, adverb In a manner to show or signify.

IN'DICATOR, noun He or that which shows or points out.

IN'DICATORY, adjective Showing; serving to show or make known.

INDICE. [See Index.]

IN'DICOLITE, noun [indigo, or indico, and a stone.]

In mineralogy, a variety of shorl or tourmalin, of an indigo blue color, sometimes with a tinge of azure or green.

INDICT, verb transitive indi'te. [Latin indictus, from indico; in and dico, to speak.] In law, to accuse or charge with a crime or misdemeanor, in writing, by a grand jury under oath. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict as it is of a house of representatives to impeach. It is followed by of; as indicted of treason or arson.

INDICTABLE, adjective indi'table. That may be indicted; as an indictable offender.

1. Subject to be presented by a grand jury; subject to indictment; as an indictable offense.

INDICTED, participle passive indi'ted. Accused by a grand jury.

INDICTER, noun indi'ter. One who indicts.

INDICTING, participle present tense indi'ting. Accusing, or making a formal or written charge of a crime by a grand jury.

INDIC'TION, noun [Low Latin indictio, indico.]

1. Declaration; proclamation.

2. In chronology, a cycle of fifteen years, instituted by Constantine the Great; originally, a period of taxation. Constantine having reduced the time which the Romans were obliged to serve in the army to fifteen years, imposed a tax or tribute at the end of that term, to pay the troops discharged. This practice introduced the keeping of accounts by this period. But, as it is said, in honor of the great victory of Constantine over Mezentius, Sep. 24, adjective D. 312, by which christianity was more effectually established, the council of Nice ordained that accounts of years should no longer be kept by Olympiads, but that the indiction should be used as the point from which to reckon and date years. This was begun Jan.1, adjective D. 313.

INDIC'TIVE, adjective Proclaimed; declared.

INDICTMENT, noun indi'tement. A written accusation or formal charge of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred by a grand jury under oath to a court.

1. The paper or parchment containing the accusation of a grand jury.

IN'DIES, noun plural of India.

INDIF'FERENCE, noun [Latin indifferentia; in and differo, to differ. Indifferency is little used.]

1. Equipoise or neutrality of mind between different persons or things; a state in which the mind is not inclined to one side more than the other; as when we see a contest of parties with indifference

2. Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession or bias; as when we read a book on controverted points with indifference [This is a different application of the first definition.

3. Unconcernedness; a state of the mind when it feels no anxiety or interest in what is presented to it. No person of humanity can behold the wretchedness of the poor with indifference

4. State in which there is no difference, or in which no moral or physical reason preponderates; as when we speak of the indifference of things in themselves.

INDIF'FERENT, adjective [Latin indifferens.]

1. Neutral; not inclined to one side, party or thing more than to another.

Cato knows neither of them,

Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die.

2. Unconcerned; feeling no interest, anxiety or care respecting any thing. It seems to be impossible that a rational being should be indifferent to the means of obtaining endless happiness.

It was a remarkable law of Solon, that any person who, in the commotions of the republic, remained neuter, or an indifferent spectator of the contending parties, should be condemned to perpetual banishment.

3. Having no influence or preponderating weight; having no difference that gives a preference. It is indifferent which road we take.

4. Neutral, as to good or evil. Things in themselves indifferent may be rendered evil by the prohibition of law.

5. Impartial; disinterested; as an indifferent judge, juror or arbitrator.

6. Passable; of a middling state or quality; neither good, nor the worst; as indifferent writing or paper.

Indifferent, used adverbially, as indifferent honest, is ungrammatical and vulgar.

INDIF'FERENTLY, adverb Without distinction or preference; as, to offer pardon indifferently to all.

1. Equally; impartially; without favor, prejudice or bias.

--They may truly and indifferently minister justice.

2. In a neutral state; without concern; without wish or aversion.

Set honor in one eye and death i'th' other,

And I will look on death indifferently

3. Not well; tolerably; passably; as indifferently well; to be indifferently entertained.

IN'DIGENCE

IN'DIGENCY, noun [Latin indigentia, from indigeo; in or ind, and egeo, to want, to lack.] Want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty. A large portion of the human race live in indigence while others possess more than they can enjoy.

IN'DIGENCY, n. [L. indigentia, from indigeo; in or ind, and egeo, to want, to lack.] Want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty. A large portion of the human race live in indigence, while others possess more than they can enjoy.

IN'DIGENE, noun [Latin indigena; in or ind, and geno, gigno, to beget, or to be born.] One born in a country; a native animal or plant.

INDIG'ENOUS, adjective [Latin indigena, supra.]

1. Native; born in a country; applied to persons.

2. Native; produced naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; applied to vegetables.

IN'DIGENT, adjective [Latin indigens.] Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor.

Charity consists in relieving the indigent

INDIGEST', noun A crude mass. [Not used.]

INDIGEST'ED, adjective [in and digested; Latin indigestus.]

1. Not digested; not concocted in the stomach; not changed or prepared for nourishing the body; indigested; crude.

2. Not separated into distinct classes or orders, or into proper from; not regularly disposed and arranged. Chaos is represented as a rude or indigested mass.

3. Not methodized; not reduced to due form; crude; as an indigested scheme.

4. Not prepared by heat.

5. Not brought to suppuration, as the contents of an abscess or boil; as an indigested wound.

INDIGEST'IBLE, adjective [in and digestible.]

1. Not digestible; not easily converted into chyme, or prepared in the stomach for nourishing the body.

2. Not to be received or patiently endured.

INDIGES'TION, noun [in and digestion.] Want of due coction in the stomach; a failure of that change in food which prepares it for nutriment; crudity.

As a disease, dyspepsy; that state of the stomach, in which it is incapable of performing its natural healthy functions.

INDIG'ITATE, verb transitive To point out with the finger.

INDIGITA'TION, noun The act of pointing out with the finger.

INDIGN, adjective indi'ne. [Latin indignus.] Unworthy; disgraceful.

INDIG'NANCE, noun Indignation. [Not in use.]

INDIG'NANT, adjective [Latin indignans, from indignor, to disdain; in and dignor, dignus.] Affected at once with anger and disdain; feeling the mingled emotions of wrath and scorn or contempt, as when a person is exasperated at one despised, or by a mean action, or by the charge of a dishonorable act. Goliath was indignant at the challenge of David.

He strides indignant and with haughty cries

To single fight the fairy prince defies.

INDIGNA'TION, noun [Latin indignatio.]

1. Anger or extreme anger, mingled with contempt, disgust or abhorrence.

When Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai. Esther 5:9.

2. The anger of a superior; extreme anger; particularly, the wrath of God against sinful men for their ingratitude and rebellion. 2 Kings 3:27.

3. The effects of anger; the dreadful effects of God's wrath; terrible judgments. Isaiah 26:20.

4. Holy displeasure at one's self for sin. 2 Corinthians 7:11.

INDIG'NIFY, verb transitive To treat disdainfully. [Not used.]

INDIG'NITY, noun [Latin indignitas.] Unmerited, contemptuous conduct towards another; any action towards another which manifests contempt for him; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult. Contemptuous words respecting one, or foul language in the presence of persons of character and delicacy, and indecent behavior, are indignities. Christ on the cross was treated with the foulest indignity

INDIGNLY, adverb indi'nely. Unworthily.

IN'DIGO, noun [Latin indicum, from India.] A substance or dye, prepared from the leaves and stalks of the indigo-plant, which are steeped in water till the pulp is extracted, when the tincture is drawn off and churned or agitated, till the dye begins to granulate. The flakes are then left to settle; the liquor is drawn off, and the indigo is drained in bags and dried in boxes. It is used for dyeing blue.

INDIGOM'ETER, noun An instrument for ascertaining the strength of indigo.

INDIL'ATORY, noun [in and dilatory. Not dilatory or slow.

INDIL'IGENCE, noun [in and diligence.]

Want of diligence; slothfulness.

INDIL'IGENT, adjective Not diligent; idle; slothful.

INDIL'IGENTLY, adverb Without diligence.

INDIMIN'ISHABLE, adjective That cannot be diminished.

INDIRECT', adjective [Latin indirectus; in and directus, from dirigo.]

1. Not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous. From New York to England by Bordeaux, is an indirect course.

2. Not direct; in a moral sense; not tending to a purpose by the shortest or plainest course, or by the obvious, ordinary means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as an indirect accusation; an indirect attack on reputation; an indirect answer or proposal. Hence,

3. Wrong; improper.

4. Not fair; not honest; tending to mislead or deceive.

INDIRECT dealing will be discovered one time or other.

5. indirect tax, is a tax or duty on articles of consumption, as an excise, customs, etc.

INDIREC'TION, noun [in and direction.] Oblique course or means.

1. Dishonest practice.

INDIRECT'LY, adverb Not in a straight line or course; obliquely.

1. Not by direct means.

2. Not in express terms. He indirectly mentioned the subject.

3. Unfairly.

Your crown and kingdom indirectly held.

INDIRECT'NESS, noun Obliquity; devious course.

1. Unfairness; dishonesty.

INDISCERN'IBLE, adjective [in and discernible.] That cannot be discerned; not visible or perceptible; not discoverable.

INDISCERN'IBLENESS, noun Incapability of being discerned.

INDISCERN'IBLY, adverb In a manner not to be seen or perceived.

INDISCERP'IBLE, adjective Indiscerptible.

INDISCERPTIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being incapable of dissolution, or separation of parts.

INDISCERP'TIBLE, adjective [in and discerptible.] Incapable of being destroyed by dissolution, or separation of parts.

INDIS'CIPLINABLE, adjective [in and disciplinable.] That cannot be disciplined or subjected to discipline; not capable of being improved by discipline.

INDISCOV'ERABLE, adjective [in and discoverable.]

That cannot be discovered; undiscoverable.

INDISCOV'ERY, noun [in and discovery.] Want of discover. [Unusual.]

INDISCREE'T, adjective [in and discreet.] Not discreet; wanting in discretion; imprudent; inconsiderate; injudicious; as persons.

1. Not according to discretion or sound judgment; as indiscreet behavior.

INDISCREE'TLY, adverb Not discreetly; without prudence; inconsiderately; without judgment.

INDISCRE'TE, adjective Not discrete or separated.

INDISCRE'TION, noun [in and discretion.] Want of discretion; imprudence. The grossest vices pass under the fashionable name, indiscretions.

INDISCRIM'INATE, adjective [Latin indiscriminatus. See Discriminate.]

1. Undistinguishing; not making any distinction; as the indiscriminate voraciousness of a glutton.

2. Not having discrimination; confused.

3. Undistinguished or undistinguishable.

INDISCRIM'INATELY, adverb Without distinction; in confusion.

INDISCRIMIN'ATING, participle present tense or adjective Not making any distinction; as the victims of an indiscriminating spirit of rapine.

INDISCRIMINA'TION, noun Want of discrimination or distinction.

INDISCUS'SED, adjective Not discussed.

INDISPENSABIL'ITY, adjective Indispensableness. [Little used.]

INDISPENS'ABLE, adjective Not to be dispensed with; that cannot be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite. Air and water are indispensable to the life of man. Our duties to God and to our fellow men are of indispensable obligation.

INDISPENS'ABLENESS, noun The state or quality of being absolutely necessary.

INDISPENS'ABLY, adverb Necessarily; in a manner or degree that forbids dispensation, omission or want.

INDISPERS'ED, adjective Not dispersed.

INDISPO'SE, verb transitive s as z.

1. To disincline; to alienate the mind and render it averse or unfavorable to any thing. A love of pleasure indisposes the mind to severe study and steady attention to business. The pride and selfishness of men indispose them to religious duties.

2. To render unfit; to disqualify for its proper functions; to disorder; as the distemperature of indisposed organs.

3. To disorder slightly, as the healthy functions of the body.

It made him rather indisposed than sick.

4. To make unfavorable or disinclined; with towards.

The king was sufficiently indisposed towards the persons, or the principles of Calvin's disciples.

INDISPO'SED, participle passive or adjective Disinclined; averse; unwilling; unfavorable.

1. Disordered; disqualified for its functions; unfit.

2. Slightly disordered; not in perfect health.

INDISPO'SEDNESS, noun Disinclination; slight aversion; unwillingness; unfavorableness.

1. Unfitness; disordered state.

INDISPO'SING, participle present tense Disinclining; rendering somewhat averse, unwilling or unfavorable.

1. Disordering; rendering unfit.

INDISPOSI'TION, noun

1. Disinclination; aversion; unwillingness; dislike; as the indisposition of men to submit to severe discipline; an indisposition to abandon vicious practices.

A general indisposition towards believing.

2. Slight disorder of the healthy functions of the body; tendency to disease. indisposition is a slight defect of healthy action in bodily functions, rather than settled or marked disease.

3. Want of tendency or natural appetency or affinity; as the indisposition of two substances to combine.

INDIS'PUTABLE, adjective Not to be disputed; incontrovertible; incontestable; too evident to admit of dispute.

INDIS'PUTABLENESS, noun The state or quality of being indisputable, or too clear to admit of controversy.

INDIS'PUTABLY, adverb Without dispute; in a manner or degree not admitting of controversy; unquestionably; without opposition.

INDISPU'TED, adjective Not disputed or controverted; undisputed.

INDISSOLUBIL'ITY, noun

1. The quality of being indissoluble, or not capable of being dissolved, melted or liquefied.

2. The quality of being incapable of a breach; perpetuity of union, obligation or binding force.

INDIS'SOLUBLE, adjective [Latin indissolubilis; in and dissolubilis, from dissolvo; dis and solvo, to loosen.]

1. Not capable of being dissolved, melted or liquefied, as by heat or water. Few substances are absolutely indissoluble by heat; many are indissoluble in water.

2. That cannot be broken or rightfully violated; perpetually binding or obligatory; as an indissoluble league or covenant. The marriage covenant is indissoluble except in certain specified cases.

3. Not to be broken; firm; stable; as indissoluble friendship; indissoluble bands of love.

INDIS'SOLUBLENESS, The quality of being incapable of dissolution, separation or breach; indissolubility.

INDIS'SOLUBLY, adverb In a manner resisting separation; firmly united beyond the power of separation; in a manner not to be dissolved or broken.

On they move

Indissolubly firm.

INDISSOLV'ABLE, adjective [in and dissolvable.]

1. That cannot be dissolved; not capable of being melted or liquefied.

2. Indissoluble; that cannot be broken; perpetually firm and binding; as an indissolvable bond of union.

3. Not capable of separation into parts by natural process.

INDIS'TANCY, noun Want of distance or separation. [A bad word and not used.]

INDISTINCT', adjective [Latin indistinctus; in and distinctus. See Distinct.]

1. Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself. The parts of a substance are indistinct when they are so blended that the eye cannot separate them, or perceive them as separate. Sounds are indistinct when the ear cannot separate them. Hence,

2. Obscure; not clear; confused; as indistinct ideas or notions.

3. Imperfect; faint; not presenting clear and well defined images; as indistinct vision; an indistinct view.

4. Not exactly discerning. [Unusual.]

INDISTINCT'IBLE, adjective Undistinguishable. [Little used.]

INDISTINC'TION, noun Want of distinction; confusion; uncertainty.

The indistinction of many of the same name--

hath made some doubt.

1. Indiscrimination; want of distinction.

2. Equality of condition or rank.

INDISTINCT'LY, adverb Without distinction or separation; as when parts of a thing are indistinctly seen.

1. Confusedly; not clearly; obscurely; as when ideas are indistinctly comprehended.

2. Not definitely; not with precise limits; as when the border of a thing is indistinctly marked.

INDISTINCT'NESS, noun Want of distinction or discrimination; confusion; uncertainty.

1. Obscurity; faintness; as the indistinctness of vision.

INDISTIN'GUISHABLE, adjective [in and distinguishable.]

That cannot be distinguished or separated; undistinguishable.

INDISTIN'GUISHING, adjective Making no difference; as indistinguishing liberalities.

INDISTURB'ANCE, noun [in and disturbance.]

Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; tranquillity.

INDITCH', verb transitive To bury in a ditch. [Little used.]

INDI'TE, verb transitive [Latin indico, indictum; in and dico, to speak.]

1. To compose; to write; to commit to words in writing.

Hear how learn'd Greece her useful rules indites.

2. To direct or dictate what is to be uttered or written. The late President Dwight indited his sermons.

My heart is inditing a good matter. Psalms 45:1.

INDI'TE, verb intransitive To compose an account of.

[This is from the same original as indict. The different applications of the word have induced authors to express each in a different orthography, but without good reason.]

INDI'TED, participle passive Composed; written; dictated.

INDI'TEMENT, noun The act of inditing.

INDI'TING, participle present tense Committing to words in writing; dictating what shall be written.

INDIVI'DABLE, adjective Not capable of division.

INDIVI'DED, adjective Undivided.

INDIVID'UAL, . [Latin individuus; in and dividuus, from divido, to divide.]

1. Not divided, or not to be divided; single; one; as an individual man or city.

--Under his great vicegerent reign abide

United, as one individual soul.

2. Pertaining to one only; as individual labor or exertions.

INDIVID'UAL, noun A single person or human being. This is the common application of the word; as, there was not an individual present.

1. A single animal or thing of any kind. But this word, as a noun, is rarely applied except to human beings.

INDIVIDUAL'ITY, noun Separate or distinct existence; a state of oneness.

INDIVID'UALIZE, verb transitive To distinguish; to select or mark as an individual, or to distinguish the peculiar properties of a person from others.

INDIVID'UALIZED, participle passive Distinguished as a particular person or thing.

INDIVID'UALIZING, participle present tense Distinguishing as an individual.

INDIVID'UALLY, adverb Separately; by itself; to the exclusion of others. Thirty men will unitedly accomplish what each of them individually cannot perform.

1. With separate or distinct existence.

How should that subsist solitarily by itself, which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist with it?

2. Inseparably; incommunicably.

Omniscience--an attribute individually proper to the Godhead.

INDIVID'UATE, adjective Undivided.

INDIVID'UATE, verb transitive To make single to distinguish from others of the species.

Life is individuated into infinite numbers, that have their distinct sense and pleasure.

INDIVIDUA'TION, adjective The act of making single or the same, to the exclusion of others.

1. The act of separating into individuals by analysis.

INDIVIDU'ITY, noun Separate existence. [Not used.]

INDIVIN'ITY, noun Want of divine power.

INDIVISIBIL'ITY, noun [See Indivisible.]

The state or property of being indivisible.

INDIVIS'IBLE, adjective s as z. [in and divisible. See Divide.]

That cannot be divided, separated or broken; not separable into parts. Perhaps the particles of matter, however small, cannot be considered as indivisible The mind or soul must be indivisible A mathematical point is indivisible

INDIVIS'IBLE, noun In geometry, indivisibles are the elements or principles into which a body or figure may be resolved; elements infinitely small.

INDIVIS'IBLENESS, noun Indivisibility, which see.

INDIVIS'IBLY, adverb So as not to be capable of division.

INDO'CIBLE, adjective [in and docible; Latin doceo, to teach.]

1. Unteachable; not capable of being taught, or not easily instructed; dull in intellect.

2. Intractable, as a beast.

INDOCIL'ITY, noun Unteachableness; dullness of intellect.

1. Intractableness, as of a beast.

INDOC'TRINATE, verb transitive [Latin in and doctrina, learning.]

To teach; to instruct in rudiments or principles.

He took much delight in indoctrinating his young unexperienced favorite.

INDOC'TRINATED, participle passive Taught; instructed in the principles of any science.

INDOC'TRINATING, participle present tense Teaching; instructing in principles or rudiments.

INDOCTRINA'TION, noun Instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science; information.

IN'DOLENCE, noun [Latin indolentia; in and doleo, to be pained.]

1. Literally, freedom from pain.

2. Habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; inaction or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil. indolence like laziness, implies a constitutional or habitual love of ease; idleness does not.

IN'DOLENT, adjective Habitually idle or indisposed to labor; lazy; listless; sluggish; indulging in ease; applied to persons.

1. Inactive; idle; as an indolent life.

2. Free from pain; as an indolent tumor.

IN'DOLENTLY, adverb In habitual idleness and ease; without action, activity or exertion; lazily.

Calm and serene you indolently sit.

INDOM'ITABLE, adjective Untamable. [Not used.]

INDOMPT'ABLE, adjective [Latin domo, to tame.] Not to be subdued. [Unusual.]

INDORS'ABLE, adjective That may be indorsed, assigned and made payable to order.

INDORSE, verb transitive indors'. [Latin in and dorsum, the back.]

1. To write on the back of a paper or written instrument; as, to indorse a note or bill of exchange; to indorse a receipt or assignment on a bill or note. Hence,

2. To assign by writing an order on the back of a note or bill; to assign or transfer by indorsement. The bill was indorsed to the bank.

To indorse in blank, to write a name only on a note or bill, leaving a blank to be filled by the indorsee.

INDORSEE', noun The person to whom a note or bill is indorsed, or assigned by indorsement.

INDORSEMENT, noun indors'ment. The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.

1. That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for payment, the return of an officer, or the verdict of a grand jury.

INDORS'ER, noun The person who indorses, or writes his name on the back of a note or bill of exchange, and who, by this act, as the case may be, makes himself liable to pay the note or bill.

IN'DRAUGHT, noun in'draft. [in and draught.]

An opening from the sea into the land; an inlet.

INDRENCH', verb transitive [in and drench.]

To overwhelm with water; to drown; to drench.

INDU'BIOUS, adjective [Latin indubius; in and dubius, doubtful.]

1. Not dubious or doubtful; certain.

2. Not doubting; unsuspecting; as indubious confidence.

INDU'BITABLE, adjective [Latin indubitabilis; in and dubitabilis, from dubito, to doubt.] Not to be doubted; unquestionable; evident; apparently certain; too plain to admit of doubt.

INDU'BITABLENESS, noun State of being indubitable.

INDU'BITABLY, adverb Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt.

INDU'BITATE, adjective [Latin indubitatus.]

Not questioned; evident; certain. [Not used.]

INDU'CE, verb transitive [Latin induco; in and duco, to lead.]

1. To lead, as by persuasion or argument; to prevail on; to incite; to influence by motives. The emperor could not be induced to take part in the contest.

2. To produce by influence.

As this belief is absolutely necessary for all mankind, the evidence for inducing it must be of that nature as to accommodate itself to all species of men.

3. To produce; to bring on; to cause; as a fever induced by extreme fatigue. The revolution in France has induced a change of opinions and of property.

4. To introduce; to bring into view.

The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad.

5. To offer by way of induction or inference. [Not used.]

INDU'CED, participle passive Persuaded by motives; influenced; produced; caused.

INDU'CEMENT, noun Motive; any thing that leads the mind to will or to act; any argument, reason or fact that tends to persuade or influence the mind. The love of ease is an inducement to idleness. The love of money is an inducement to industry in good men, and to the perpetration of crimes in the bad.

INDU'CER, noun He or that which induces persuades or influences.

INDU'CIBLE, adjective That may be induced; that may be offered by induction.

1. That may be caused.

INDU'CING, participle present tense Leading or moving by reason or arguments; persuading; producing; causing.

INDUCT', verb transitive [Latin inductus, from induco; in and duco, to lead.]

Literally, to being in or introduce. Hence, appropriately,

1. To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies. Clerks or parsons are inducted by a mandate from the bishop to the archdeacon, who usually issued a precept to other clergymen to perform the duty. In the United States, certain civil officers and presidents of colleges, are inducted into office with appropriate ceremonies.

INDUCT'ED, participle passive Introduced into office with the usual formalities.

INDUCT'ILE, adjective [in and ductile.] Not capable of being drawn into threads, as a metal. [See Ductile.]

INDUCTIL'ITY, noun The quality of being inductile.

INDUCT'ING, participle present tense Introducing into office with the usual formalities.

INDUC'TION, noun [Latin inductio. See Induct.]

1. Literally, a bringing in; introduction; entrance. Hence,

2. In logic and rhetoric, the act of drawing a consequence from two or more propositions, which are called premises.

3. The method of reasoning from particulars to generals, or the inferring of one general proposition from several particular ones.

4. The conclusion or inference drawn from premises or from propositions which are admitted to be true, either in fact, or for the sake of argument.

5. The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or giving possession of an ecclesiastical living; or the introduction of a person into an office by the usual forms and ceremonies. induction is applied to the introduction of officers, only when certain oaths are to be administered or other formalities are to be observed, which are intended to confer authority or give dignity to the transaction. In Great Britain, induction is used for giving possession of ecclesiastical offices. In the United States, it is applied to the formal introduction of civil officers, and the higher officers of colleges.

INDUCT'IVE, adjective Leading or drawing; with to.

A brutish vice,

Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.

1. Tending to induce or cause.

They may be inductive of credibility. [Unusual.]

2. Leading to inferences; proceeding by induction; employed in drawing conclusions from promises; as inductive reasoning.

INDUCT'IVELY, adverb By induction or inference.

INDUCT'OR, noun The person who inducts another into an office or benefice.

INDUE, verb transitive indu'. [Latin induo. This word coincides nearly in signification with endow, that is, to put on, to furnish. Dueo is evidently a contracted word.]

1. To put on something; to invest; to clothe; as, to indue matter with forms, or man with intelligence.

2. To furnish; to supply with; to endow.

INDU'ED, participle passive Clothed; invested.

INDUEMENT, noun indu'ment. A putting on; endowment.

INDU'ING, participle present tense Investing; putting on.

INDULGE, verb transitive indulj'. [Latin indulgeo; tolero.]

1. To permit to be or to continue; to suffer; not to restrain or oppose; as, to indulge sloth; to indulge the passions; to indulge pride, selfishness or inclinations.

2. To gratify, negatively; not to check or restrain the will, appetite or desire; as, to indulge children in amusements.

3. To gratify, positively; to grant something not of right, but as a favor; to grant in compliance with wishes or desire.

Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light

INDULGE, dread Chaos and eternal Night!

4. In general, to gratify; to favor; to humor; to yield to the wishes of; to withhold restraint from.

It is remarked by Johnson, that if the matter of indulgence is a single thing, it has with before it; if it is a habit, it has in. He indulged himself with a glass of wine; he indulges himself in sloth or intemperance.

INDULGE, verb transitive indulj'. To permit to enjoy or practice; or to yield to the enjoyment or practice of, without restraint or control; as, to indulge in sin, or in sensual pleasure. This form of expression is elliptical, a pronoun being omitted; as, to indulge myself or himself.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices, than to practice laborious virtues.

1. To yield; to comply; to be favorable. [Little used.]

INDUL'GED, participle passive Permitted to be and to operate without check or control; as love of pleasure indulged to excess.

1. Gratified; yielded to; humored in wishes or desires; as a child indulged by his parents.

2. Granted.

INDUL'GENCE

INDUL'GENCY, noun Free permission to the appetites, humor, desires, passions or will to act or operate; forbearance of restraint or control. How many children are ruined by indulgence! indulgence is not kindness or tenderness, but it may be the effect of one or the other, or of negligence.

1. Gratification; as the indulgence of lust or of appetite.

2. Favor granted; liberality; gratification.

If all these gracious indulgencies are without effect on us, we must perish in our folly.

3. In the Romish church, remission of the punishment due to sins, granted by the pope or church, and supposed to save the sinner from purgatory; absolution from the censures of the church and from all transgressions.

INDUL'GENCY, n. Free permission to the appetites, humor, desires, passions or will to act or operate; forbearance of restraint or control. How many children are ruined by indulgence! Indulgence is not kindness or tenderness, but it may be the effect of one or the other, or of negligence.

INDUL'GENT, adjective Yielding to the wishes, desires, humor or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; as an indulgent parent.

1. Mild, favorable; not severe; as the indulgent censure of posterity.

2. Gratifying; favoring; with of.

The feeble old, indulgent of their ease.

INDULGEN'TIAL, adjective Relating to the indulgencies of the Romish church. [Not well authorized.]

INDUL'GENTLY, adverb With unrestrained enjoyment.

1. Mildly; favorably; not severely.

INDUL'GER, noun One who indulges.

INDUL'GING, participle present tense Permitting to enjoy or to practice; gratifying.

INDULT'

INDULT'O, noun [Latin indultus, indulged.]

1. In the church of Rome, the power of presenting to benefices, granted to certain persons, as to kings and cardinals.

2. In Spain, a duty, tax or custom, paid to the king for all goods imported from the West Indies in the galleons.

INDULT'O, n. [L. indultus, indulged.]

IN'DURATE, verb intransitive [Latin induro; in and duro, to harden.]

To grow hard; to harden or become hard. Clay indurates by drying, and by extreme heat.

IN'DURATE, verb transitive To make hard. Extreme heat indurates clay. Some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.

1. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate; as, to indurate the heart.

IN'DURATED, participle passive Hardened; made obdurate.