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Incorrect

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.

Incorrection

INCORREC'TION, noun Want of correction.

Incorrectly

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

Incorrectness

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

Incorrigibility

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

Incorrigible

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.

Incorrigibleness

INCOR'RIGIBL'ENESS

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

Incorrigibly

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

Incorrupt

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.

Incorrupted

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.

Incorruptibility

INCORRUPTIBIL'ITY, noun [from incorruptible.]

The quality of being incapable of decay or corruption.

Incorruptible

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.

Incorruptibleness

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

Incorruption

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

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

Incorruptive

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

Incorruptness

INCORRUPT'NESS, noun Exemption from decay or corruption.

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

Incrassate

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

Incrassated

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.

Incrassating

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

Incrassation

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

Incrassative

INCRAS'SATIVE, adjective Having the quality of thickening.

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

Increasable

INCRE'ASABLE, adjective That may be increased.

Increase

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.

Increased

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

Increaseful

INCRE'ASEFUL, adjective Abundant of produce.

Increaser

INCRE'ASER, noun He or that which increases.

Increasing

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

Increate

INCREA'TE

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

Increated

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

Incredibility

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

Incredible

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.

Incredibleness

INCRED'IBLENESS, noun Incredibility, which see.

Incredibly

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

Incredulity

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.

Incredulous

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.

Incredulousness

INCRED'ULOUSNESS, noun Incredulity, which see.

Incremable

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

Increment

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.

Increpate

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

Increpation

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

Increscent

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

Incriminate

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

To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault.

Incruental

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

Incrust

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.

Incrustate

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

Incrustation

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.

Incrystalizable

INCRYS'TALIZABLE, adjective [in and crystalizable.]

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

Incubate

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

Incubation

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

Incubature

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

Incubus

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.

Inculcate

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.

Inculcated

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

Inculcating

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

Inculcation

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

Inculpable

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

Without fault; unblamable; that cannot be accused.

Inculpableness

INCULP'ABLENESS, noun Unblamableness.

Inculpably

INCULP'ABLY, adjective Unblamably; without blame.

Incult

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

Untilled; uncultivated.

Incultivated

INCUL'TIVATED, adjective Not cultivated; uncultivated.

Incultivation

INCULTIVA'TION, noun Neglect or want of cultivation.

Inculture

INCUL'TURE, noun Want or neglect of cultivation.

Incumbency

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.

Incumbent

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.]

Incumber

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

Incumbrance

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.

Incumbrancer

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

Incumbrous

INCUM'BROUS, adjective Cumbersome; troublesome.

Incur

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.

Incurability

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

Incurable

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.

Incurableness

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

Incurably

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

Incuriosity

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

Incurious

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

Incuriousness

INCU'RIOUSNESS, noun Want of curiosity or inquisitiveness.

Incurred

INCUR'RED, participle passive Brought on.

Incurring

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

Incursion

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.]

Incurvate

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.

Incurvated

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

Incurvating

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

Incurvation

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

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

Incurvity

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

Indagate

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

Indagation

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

Indagator

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

Indart

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

Indebitatus assumpsit. [See Assumpsit.]

Indebt

INDEBT, a verb, is never used.

Indebted

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.

Indebtedness

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

Indebtment

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

Indecency

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.]

Indecent

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.

Indecently

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

Indeciduous

INDECID'UOUS, adjective [in and deciduous.]

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

Indecimable

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

Indecision

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.

Indecisive

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.

Indecisively

INDECI'SIVELY, adverb Without decision.

Indecisiveness

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

Indeclinable

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

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

Indeclinably

INDECLI'NABLY, adverb Without variation.

Indecomposable

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

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

Indecomposableness

INDECOMPO'SABLENESS, noun Incapableness of decomposition.

Indecorous

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.

Indecorously

INDEC'OROUSLY, adverb In an unbecoming manner.

Indecorousness

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

Indecorum

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.

Indeed

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?

Indefatigable

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.

Indefatigableness

INDEFAT'IGABLENESS, noun Unweariedness; persistency.

Indefatigably

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

Indefatigation

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

Indefeasibility

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

Indefeasible

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.

Indefeasibly

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

Indefectibility

INDEFECTIBIL'ITY, noun [from indefectible.]

The quality of being subject to no defect or decay.

Indefectible

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

Indefective

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

Indefeisible

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

Indefensibility

INDEFENSIBIL'ITY, noun [form indefensible.]

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

Indefensible

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

Indefensive

INDEFENS'IVE, adjective Having no defense.

Indeficiency

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

Indeficient

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

Indefinable

INDEFI'NABLE, adjective That cannot be defined.

Indefinite

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.

Indefinitely

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

Indefiniteness

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

Indefinitude

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

Indeliberate

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

Indeliberately

INDELIB'ERATELY, adverb Without deliberation or premeditation.

Indelibility

INDELIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being indelible.

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

Indelibly

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

Indelicacy

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.

Indelicate

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.

Indelicately

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

Indemnification

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.

Indemnified

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

Indemnify

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.

Indemnifying

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

Indemnity

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.

Indemonstrable

INDEMON'STRABLE, adjective [in and demonstrable.]

That cannot be demonstrated.

Indenization

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

Indenize

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

Indenizen

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

Indent

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.

Indentation

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.]

Indented

INDENT'ED, pp. 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.]

Indenting

INDENT'ING, participle present tense Cutting into notches.

1. Binding out by covenants in writing.

INDENT'MENT, noun Indenture.

Indentment

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

1. A recess or depression in any border.

Indenture

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.

Independence

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.

Independent

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.

Independently

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.

Indeprecable

INDEP'RECABLE, adjective That cannot be deprecated.

Indeprehensible

INDEPREHENS'IBLE, adjective That cannot be found out.

Indeprivable

INDEPRI'VABLE, adjective That cannot be deprived.

Indescribable

INDESCRI'BABLE, adjective That cannot be described.

Indescriptive

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

Indesert

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

Indesinent

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

Not ceasing; perpetual.

Indesinently

INDES'INENTLY, adverb Without cessation.

Indestructibility

INDESTRUCTIBIL'ITY, noun [from indestructible.]

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

Indestructible

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

Indeterminable

INDETERM'INABLE, adjective [in and determinable.]

1. That cannot be determined ascertained or fixed.

2. Not to be determined or ended.

Indeterminate

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.

Indeterminately

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.

Indeterminateness

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

Indetermination

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.

Indetermined

INDETERM'INED, adjective [in and determined.]

Undetermined; unsettled; unfixed.

Indevote

INDEVO'TE, adjective Not devoted.

Indevoted

INDEVO'TED, adjective Not devoted.

Indevotion

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

Indevout

INDEVOUT, adjective Not devout; not having devout affections.

Indevoutly

INDEVOUT'LY, adverb Without devotion.

Index

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.

Indexical

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

Indexically

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

Indexterity

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.

India

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

Indian

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.

Indianite

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.

Indicant

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

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

Indicate

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.

Indicated

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

Indicating

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

Indication

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.]

Indicative

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?

Indicatively

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

Indicator

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

Indicatory

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

Indice

INDICE. [See Index.]

Indicolite

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

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

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

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

Indicter

INDICTER, noun indi'ter. One who indicts.

Indicting

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

Indiction

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.

Indictive

INDIC'TIVE, adjective Proclaimed; declared.

Indictment

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.

Indies

IN'DIES, noun plural of India.

Indifference

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.

Indifferent

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.

Indifferently

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.

Indigence

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.

Indigency

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.

Indigene

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.

Indigenous

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.

Indigent

IN'DIGENT, adjective [Latin indigens.] Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor.

Charity consists in relieving the indigent

Indigest

INDIGEST', noun A crude mass. [Not used.]