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Incident

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.

Incidental

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.]

Incidentally

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.

Incidently

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

Incinerate

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

To burn to ashes.

Incinerated

INCIN'ERATED, participle passive Burnt to ashes.

Incinerating

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

Incineration

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

Incipiency

INCIP'IENCY, noun Beginning; commencement.

Incipient

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

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

Incirclet

INCIR'CLET, noun A small circle.

Incircumscriptible

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

Incircumspection

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

Incise

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

Incised

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

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

Incisely

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

Incision

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.

Incisive

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.

Incisor

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

Incisory

INCI'SORY, adjective Having the quality of cutting.

Incisure

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

Incitant

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

Incitation

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.

Incite

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.

Incited

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

Incitement

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.

Inciter

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

Inciting

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.

Incivil

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

Incivility

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.

Incivilly

INCIV'ILLY, adverb Uncivilly; rudely.

Incivism

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.

Inclasp

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

Inclavated

IN'CLAVATED, adjective Set; fast fixed.

Incle

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

Inclemency

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.

Inclement

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.

Inclinable

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.

Inclination

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.

Inclinatorily

INCLI'NATORILY, adverb Obliquely; with inclination.

Inclinatory

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

Incline

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.

Inclined

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.

Incliner

INCLI'NER, noun An inclined dial.

Inclining

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

INCLI'NING, adjective Leaning.

Inclip

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

Incloister

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

Inclose

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.

Inclosed

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

Incloser

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

Inclosing

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

Inclosure

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

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

Inclouded

INCLOUD'ED, participle passive Involved in obscurity.

Inclouding

INCLOUD'ING, participle present tense Darkening; obscuring.

Include

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.

Included

INCLU'DED, participle passive Contained; comprehended.

Including

INCLU'DING, participle present tense Containing; comprising.

Inclusion

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

Inclusive

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.

Inclusively

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

Incoagulable

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

Incoercible

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

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

Incoexistence

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

Incog

INCOG', adverb [contracted from incognito.]

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

Incogitancy

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

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

Incogitant

INCOG'ITANT, adjective Not thinking; thoughtless.

Incogitantly

INCOG'ITANTLY, adverb Without consideration.

Incogitative

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

Incognito

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

In concealment; in a disguise of the real person.

Incognizable

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--

Incoherence

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.

Incoherency

INCOHE'RENCY, n. [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.

Incoherent

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

Incoherently

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

Incoincidence

INCOIN'CIDENCE, noun [in and coincidence.]

Want of coincidence or agreement.

Incoincident

INCOIN'CIDENT, adjective [in and coincident.]

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

Incolumity

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

Incombine

INCOMBI'NE, verb intransitive To differ.

Incombustibility

INCOMBUSTIBIL'ITY, noun [from incombustible.]

The quality of being incapable of being burnt or consumed.

Incombustible

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

Incombustibleness

INCOMBUST'IBLENESS, noun Incombustibility.

Income

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.]

Incoming

IN'COMING, adjective Coming in.

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

Many incomings are subject to great fluctuations.

Incommensurability

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.

Incommensurable

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.

Incommensurate

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.

Incommensurately

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

Incommiscible

INCOMMIS'CIBLE, adjective [in and commix.]

That cannot be commixed or mutually mixed.

Incommixture

INCOMMIX'TURE, noun A state of being unmixed.

Incommode

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.

Incommoded

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

Incommoding

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

Incommodious

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

Incommodiously

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

Incommodiousness

INCOMMO'DIOUSNESS, noun Inconvenience; unsuitableness.

Incommodity

INCOMMOD'ITY, noun [Latin incommoditas.]

Inconvenience; trouble. [Now little used.]

Incommunicability

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.

Incommunicable

INCOMMU'NICABLE, a. [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.

Incommunicableness

INCOMMU'NICABLENESS, noun [from incommunicable.]

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

Incommunicably

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

Incommunicated

INCOMMU'NICATED, adjective Not imparted.

Incommunicating

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

Incommunicative

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.

Incommutability

INCOMMUTABIL'ITY

INCOMMU'TABLE, adjective [in and commutable.]

Not to be exchanged or commuted with another.

Incommutable

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

Not to be exchanged or commuted with another.

Incommutableness

INCOMMU'TABLENESS, noun The quality of being incommutable.

Incommutably

INCOMMU'TABLY, adverb Without reciprocal change.

Incompact

INCOMPACT'

INCOMPACT'ED, adjective [in and compact.]

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

Incompacted

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

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

Incomparable

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.

Incomparableness

INCOM'PARABLENESS, noun Excellence beyond comparison.

Incomparably

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

Incompared

INCOMPA'RED, adjective Not matched; peerless.

Incompassionate

INCOMPAS'SIONATE, adjective [in and compassionate.]

Void of compassion or pity; destitute of tenderness.

Incompassionately

INCOMPAS'SIONATELY, adverb Without pity or tenderness.

Incompassionatenes

INCOMPAS'SIONATENESS, noun Want of pity.

Incompatibility

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.

Incompatible

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.

Incompatibly

INCOMPAT'IBLY, adverb Inconsistently; incongruously.

Incompetence

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.

Incompetency

INCOM'PETENCY, n. 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.

Incompetent

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.

Incompetently

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

Incomplete

INCOMPLE'TE, adjective [in and complete.]

Not finished. The building is incomplete

1. Imperfect; defective.

Incompletely

INCOMPLE'TELY, adverb Imperfectly.

Incompleteness

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

Incomplex

INCOMPLEX', adjective [in and complex.]

Not complex; uncompounded; simple.

Incompliance

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.

Incompliant

INCOMPLI'ANT, adjective [in and compliant.]

Unyielding to request or solicitation; not disposed to comply.

Incomposed

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

Incomposite

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

Uncompounded; simple.

Incompossibility

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.]

Incompossible

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.]

Incomprehensibilit

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

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

Incomprehensible

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.]

Incomprehensiblene

INCOMPREHENS'IBLENESS, noun Incomprehensibility, which see.

Incomprehensibly

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

Incomprehension

INCOMPREHEN'SION, noun Want of comprehension or understanding.

Incomprehensive

INCOMPREHENS'IVE, adjective Not comprehensive; not extensive.

Incompressibility

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

Incompressible

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

Inconcealable

INCONCE'ALABLE, adjective [in and concealable]

Not concealable; not to be hid or kept secret.

Inconceivable

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.

Inconceivableness

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

Inconceivably

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

Inconceptible

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

Inconcinnity

INCONCIN'NITY, noun [Latin inconcinnitas.]

Unsuitableness; want of proportion.

Inconcludent

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

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

Inconcluding

INCONCLU'DING, adjective Inferring no consequence.

Inconclusive

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.

Inconclusively

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

Inconclusiveness

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

Inconcoct

INCONCOCT', adjective Inconcocted.

Inconcocted

INCONCOCT'ED, adjective [in and concoct.]

Not fully digested; not matured; unripened.

Inconcoction

INCONCOC'TION, noun [in and concoction.]

The state of being indigested; unripeness; immaturity.

Inconcurring

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

Not concurring; not agreeing.

Inconcussible

INCONCUS'SIBLE, adjective That cannot be shaken.

Incondensability

INCONDENSABIL'ITY, noun [See Incondensable.]

The quality of being not condensable.

Incondensable

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.

Incondite

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

Rude; unpolished; irregular. [Little used.]

Inconditional

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

Inconditonate

INCONDI'TONATE, adjective [in and condition.]

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

Inconfirmed

INCONFIRMED, for unconfirmed, is not in use.

Inconformity

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.]

Inconfused

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

Inconfusion

INCONFU'SION, noun Distinctness.

Incongenial

INCONGE'NIAL, adjective [in and congenial.]

Not congenial; not of a like nature; unsuitable.

Incongeniality

INCONGENIAL'ITY, noun Unlikeness of nature; unsuitableness.

Incongruence

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

Incongruent

INCON'GRUENT, adjective Unsuitable; inconsistent.

Incongruity

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.

Incongruous

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.

Incongruously

INCON'GRUOUSLY, adverb Unsuitably; unfitly; improperly.

Inconnection

INCONNEC'TION, noun [in and connection.]

Want of connection; loose, disjointed state.

Inconscionable

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

Inconsequence

INCON'SEQUENCE, noun [Latin inconsequentia.]

Want of just inference; inconclusiveness.

Inconsequent

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

Inconsequential

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

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

Inconsiderable

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.

Inconsiderableness

INCONSID'ERABLENESS, noun Small importance.

Inconsiderably

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

Inconsideracy

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

Inconsiderate

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.

Inconsiderately

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

Inconsiderateness

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

Inconsideration

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

Inconsistence

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.

Inconsistency

INCONSIST'ENCY, n. [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.

Inconsistent

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.

Inconsistently

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

Inconsistentness

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

Inconsisting

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

Inconsolable

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

Inconsolably

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

Inconsonance

INCON'SONANCE, noun Disagreement of sounds; discordance.

Inconsonancy

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

Inconsonant

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

Inconspicuous

INCONSPIC'UOUS, adjective [in and conspicuous.]

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

2. Not conspicuous.

Inconstancy

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

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

2. Want of uniformity; dissimilitude.

Inconstant

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.

Inconstantly

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

Inconsumable

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

Inconsummate

INCONSUM'MATE, adjective [in and consummate.]

Not consummate; not finished; not complete.

Inconsummateness

INCONSUM'MATENESS, noun State of being incomplete.

Inconsumptible

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.]

Incontestable

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

Incontestably

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

Incontiguous

INCONTIG'UOUS, adjective [in and contiguous.]

Not contiguous; not adjoining; not touching; separate.

Incontinence

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.

Incontinency

INCON'TINENCY, n. [L. 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.

Incontinent

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.

Incontinently

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

1. Immediately.

Incontracted

INCONTRACT'ED, adjective Not contracted; not shortened.

Incontrollable

INCONTROLLABLE, adjective [in and controllable.]

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

Incontrollably

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

Incontrovertible

INCONTROVERT'IBLE, adjective [in and controvertible.]

Indisputable; too clear or certain to admit of dispute.

Incontrovertibly

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

Inconvenience

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.

Inconveniency

INCONVE'NIENCY, n. [L.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.

Inconvenient

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.

Inconveniently

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

Inconversable

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

Inconversant

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

Inconvertibility

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.

Inconvertible

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.

Inconvincible

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

Inconvincibly

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

Incony

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

Incorporal

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

Incorporality

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

Incorporally

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

Incorporate

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.

Incorporated

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

Incorporating

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

Incorporation

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.

Incorporeal

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

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

Incorporeally

INCORPO'REALLY, adverb Without body; immaterially.

Incorporeity

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

Incorpse

INCORPSE, verb transitive incorps'. To incorporate.