Indigested – Inexcitable

Indigested

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.

Indigestible

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.

Indigestion

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.

Indigitate

INDIG'ITATE, verb transitive To point out with the finger.

Indigitation

INDIGITA'TION, noun The act of pointing out with the finger.

Indign

INDIGN, adjective indi'ne. [Latin indignus.] Unworthy; disgraceful.

Indignance

INDIG'NANCE, noun Indignation. [Not in use.]

Indignant

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.

Indignation

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.

Indignify

INDIG'NIFY, verb transitive To treat disdainfully. [Not used.]

Indignity

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

INDIGNLY, adverb indi'nely. Unworthily.

Indigo

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.

Indigo-Plant

IN'DIGO-PLANT, noun A plant of the genus Indigofera, from which is prepared indigo. It is a native of Asia, Africa and America, and called by the native Americans, anil. The calyx is patent; the carina of the corol is furnished with a subulate, patulous spur on each side; the legume or pod is linear. Several species are cultivated for making indigo, of which the most important are the tinctoria, or common indigoplant, the anil, a larger species, and the disperma, which furnishes the Guatimala indigo.

Indigometer

INDIGOM'ETER, noun An instrument for ascertaining the strength of indigo.

Indilatory

INDIL'ATORY, noun [in and dilatory. Not dilatory or slow.

Indiligence

INDIL'IGENCE, noun [in and diligence.]

Want of diligence; slothfulness.

Indiligent

INDIL'IGENT, adjective Not diligent; idle; slothful.

Indiligently

INDIL'IGENTLY, adverb Without diligence.

Indiminishable

INDIMIN'ISHABLE, adjective That cannot be diminished.

Indirect

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.

Indirection

INDIREC'TION, noun [in and direction.] Oblique course or means.

1. Dishonest practice.

Indirectly

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.

Indirectness

INDIRECT'NESS, noun Obliquity; devious course.

1. Unfairness; dishonesty.

Indiscernible

INDISCERN'IBLE, adjective [in and discernible.] That cannot be discerned; not visible or perceptible; not discoverable.

Indiscernibleness

INDISCERN'IBLENESS, noun Incapability of being discerned.

Indiscernibly

INDISCERN'IBLY, adverb In a manner not to be seen or perceived.

Indiscerpible

INDISCERP'IBLE, adjective Indiscerptible.

Indiscerptibility

INDISCERPTIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being incapable of dissolution, or separation of parts.

Indiscerptible

INDISCERP'TIBLE, adjective [in and discerptible.] Incapable of being destroyed by dissolution, or separation of parts.

Indisciplinable

INDIS'CIPLINABLE, adjective [in and disciplinable.] That cannot be disciplined or subjected to discipline; not capable of being improved by discipline.

Indiscoverable

INDISCOV'ERABLE, adjective [in and discoverable.]

That cannot be discovered; undiscoverable.

Indiscovery

INDISCOV'ERY, noun [in and discovery.] Want of discover. [Unusual.]

Indiscreet

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.

Indiscreetly

INDISCREE'TLY, adverb Not discreetly; without prudence; inconsiderately; without judgment.

Indiscrete

INDISCRE'TE, adjective Not discrete or separated.

Indiscretion

INDISCRE'TION, noun [in and discretion.] Want of discretion; imprudence. The grossest vices pass under the fashionable name, indiscretions.

Indiscriminate

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.

Indiscriminately

INDISCRIM'INATELY, adverb Without distinction; in confusion.

Indiscriminating

INDISCRIMIN'ATING, participle present tense or adjective Not making any distinction; as the victims of an indiscriminating spirit of rapine.

Indiscrimination

INDISCRIMINA'TION, noun Want of discrimination or distinction.

Indiscussed

INDISCUS'SED, adjective Not discussed.

Indispensability

INDISPENSABIL'ITY, adjective Indispensableness. [Little used.]

Indispensable

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.

Indispensableness

INDISPENS'ABLENESS, noun The state or quality of being absolutely necessary.

Indispensably

INDISPENS'ABLY, adverb Necessarily; in a manner or degree that forbids dispensation, omission or want.

Indispersed

INDISPERS'ED, adjective Not dispersed.

Indispose

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.

Indisposed

INDISPO'SED, participle passive or adjective Disinclined; averse; unwilling; unfavorable.

1. Disordered; disqualified for its functions; unfit.

2. Slightly disordered; not in perfect health.

Indisposedness

INDISPO'SEDNESS, noun Disinclination; slight aversion; unwillingness; unfavorableness.

1. Unfitness; disordered state.

Indisposing

INDISPO'SING, participle present tense Disinclining; rendering somewhat averse, unwilling or unfavorable.

1. Disordering; rendering unfit.

Indisposition

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.

Indisputable

INDIS'PUTABLE, adjective Not to be disputed; incontrovertible; incontestable; too evident to admit of dispute.

Indisputableness

INDIS'PUTABLENESS, noun The state or quality of being indisputable, or too clear to admit of controversy.

Indisputably

INDIS'PUTABLY, adverb Without dispute; in a manner or degree not admitting of controversy; unquestionably; without opposition.

Indisputed

INDISPU'TED, adjective Not disputed or controverted; undisputed.

Indissolubility

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.

Indissoluble

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.

Indissolubleness

INDIS'SOLUBLENESS, The quality of being incapable of dissolution, separation or breach; indissolubility.

Indissolubly

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.

Indissolvable

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.

Indistancy

INDIS'TANCY, noun Want of distance or separation. [A bad word and not used.]

Indistinct

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.]

Indistinctible

INDISTINCT'IBLE, adjective Undistinguishable. [Little used.]

Indistinction

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.

Indistinctly

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.

Indistinctness

INDISTINCT'NESS, noun Want of distinction or discrimination; confusion; uncertainty.

1. Obscurity; faintness; as the indistinctness of vision.

Indistinguishable

INDISTIN'GUISHABLE, adjective [in and distinguishable.]

That cannot be distinguished or separated; undistinguishable.

Indistinguishing

INDISTIN'GUISHING, adjective Making no difference; as indistinguishing liberalities.

Indisturbance

INDISTURB'ANCE, noun [in and disturbance.]

Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; tranquillity.

Inditch

INDITCH', verb transitive To bury in a ditch. [Little used.]

Indite

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.]

Indited

INDI'TED, participle passive Composed; written; dictated.

Inditement

INDI'TEMENT, noun The act of inditing.

Inditing

INDI'TING, participle present tense Committing to words in writing; dictating what shall be written.

Individable

INDIVI'DABLE, adjective Not capable of division.

Individed

INDIVI'DED, adjective Undivided.

Individual

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.

Individuality

INDIVIDUAL'ITY, noun Separate or distinct existence; a state of oneness.

Individualize

INDIVID'UALIZE, verb transitive To distinguish; to select or mark as an individual, or to distinguish the peculiar properties of a person from others.

Individualized

INDIVID'UALIZED, participle passive Distinguished as a particular person or thing.

Individualizing

INDIVID'UALIZING, participle present tense Distinguishing as an individual.

Individually

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.

Individuate

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.

Individuation

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.

Individuity

INDIVIDU'ITY, noun Separate existence. [Not used.]

Indivinity

INDIVIN'ITY, noun Want of divine power.

Indivisibility

INDIVISIBIL'ITY, noun [See Indivisible.]

The state or property of being indivisible.

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.

Indivisibleness

INDIVIS'IBLENESS, noun Indivisibility, which see.

Indivisibly

INDIVIS'IBLY, adverb So as not to be capable of division.

Indocible

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.

Indocility

INDOCIL'ITY, noun Unteachableness; dullness of intellect.

1. Intractableness, as of a beast.

Indoctrinate

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.

Indoctrinated

INDOC'TRINATED, participle passive Taught; instructed in the principles of any science.

Indoctrinating

INDOC'TRINATING, participle present tense Teaching; instructing in principles or rudiments.

Indoctrination

INDOCTRINA'TION, noun Instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science; information.

Indolence

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.

Indolent

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.

Indolently

IN'DOLENTLY, adverb In habitual idleness and ease; without action, activity or exertion; lazily.

Calm and serene you indolently sit.

Indomitable

INDOM'ITABLE, adjective Untamable. [Not used.]

Indomptable

INDOMPT'ABLE, adjective [Latin domo, to tame.] Not to be subdued. [Unusual.]

Indorsable

INDORS'ABLE, adjective That may be indorsed, assigned and made payable to order.

Indorse

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

INDORSEE', noun The person to whom a note or bill is indorsed, or assigned by indorsement.

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.

Indorser

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.

Indraught

IN'DRAUGHT, noun in'draft. [in and draught.]

An opening from the sea into the land; an inlet.

Indrench

INDRENCH', verb transitive [in and drench.]

To overwhelm with water; to drown; to drench.

Indubious

INDU'BIOUS, adjective [Latin indubius; in and dubius, doubtful.]

1. Not dubious or doubtful; certain.

2. Not doubting; unsuspecting; as indubious confidence.

Indubitable

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.

Indubitableness

INDU'BITABLENESS, noun State of being indubitable.

Indubitably

INDU'BITABLY, adverb Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt.

Indubitate

INDU'BITATE, adjective [Latin indubitatus.]

Not questioned; evident; certain. [Not used.]

Induce

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.]

Induced

INDU'CED, participle passive Persuaded by motives; influenced; produced; caused.

Inducement

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.

Inducer

INDU'CER, noun He or that which induces persuades or influences.

Inducible

INDU'CIBLE, adjective That may be induced; that may be offered by induction.

1. That may be caused.

Inducing

INDU'CING, participle present tense Leading or moving by reason or arguments; persuading; producing; causing.

Induct

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.

Inducted

INDUCT'ED, participle passive Introduced into office with the usual formalities.

Inductile

INDUCT'ILE, adjective [in and ductile.] Not capable of being drawn into threads, as a metal. [See Ductile.]

Inductility

INDUCTIL'ITY, noun The quality of being inductile.

Inducting

INDUCT'ING, participle present tense Introducing into office with the usual formalities.

Induction

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.

Inductive

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.

Inductively

INDUCT'IVELY, adverb By induction or inference.

Inductor

INDUCT'OR, noun The person who inducts another into an office or benefice.

Indue

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.

Indued

INDU'ED, participle passive Clothed; invested.

Induement

INDUEMENT, noun indu'ment. A putting on; endowment.

Induing

INDU'ING, participle present tense Investing; putting on.

Indulge

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.]

Indulged

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.

Indulgence

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.

Indulgency

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. 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.

Indulgent

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.

Indulgential

INDULGEN'TIAL, adjective Relating to the indulgencies of the Romish church. [Not well authorized.]

Indulgently

INDUL'GENTLY, adverb With unrestrained enjoyment.

1. Mildly; favorably; not severely.

Indulger

INDUL'GER, noun One who indulges.

Indulging

INDUL'GING, participle present tense Permitting to enjoy or to practice; gratifying.

Indult

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.

Indulto

INDULT'O, n. [L. 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.

Indurate

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.

Indurated

IN'DURATED, participle passive Hardened; made obdurate.

Indurating

IN'DURATING, participle present tense Hardening; rendering insensible.

Induration

INDURA'TION, noun The act of hardening, or process of growing hard.

1. Hardness of heart; obduracy.

Industrious

INDUS'TRIOUS, adjective [Latin industrius, from industria.]

1. Diligent in business or study; constantly, regularly or habitually occupied in business; assiduous; opposed to slothful and idle.

Frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly to the established government.

2. Diligent in a particular pursuit, or to a particular end; opposed to remiss or slack; as industrious to accomplish a journey, or to reconcile contending parties.

3. Given to industry; characterized by diligence; as an industrious life.

4. Careful; assiduous; as the industrious application of knowing men.

Industriously

INDUS'TRIOUSLY, adverb With habitual diligence; with steady application of the powers of body or of mind.

1. Diligently; assiduously; with care; applied to a particular purpose. He attempted industriously to make peace. He industriously concealed his name.

Industry

IN'DUSTRY, noun [Latin industria.] Habitual diligence in any employment, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; opposed to sloth and idleness. We are directed to take lessons of industry from the bee. industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.

Indweller

INDWELL'ER, noun An inhabitant.

Indwelling

INDWELL'ING, adjective [in and dwelling.] Dwelling within; remaining in the heart, even after it is renewed; as indwelling sin.

INDWELL'ING, noun Residence within, or in the heart or soul.

Inebriant

INE'BRIANT, adjective [See Inebriate.] Intoxicating.

INE'BRIANT, noun Any thing that intoxicates, as opium.

Inebriate

INE'BRIATE, verb transitive [Latin inebrio, inebriatus; in and ebrio, to intoxicate; ebrius, soaked, drenched, drunken. The Latin ebrius is contracted from ebrigus or ebregus, as appears from the Spanish embriagar, to intoxicate, embriago, inebriated; Gr. to water or irrigate. See Rain.]

1. To make drunk; to intoxicate.

2. To disorder the senses; to stupefy, or to make furious or frantic; to produce effects like those of liquor, which are various in different constitutions.

INE'BRIATE, verb intransitive To be or become intoxicated.

INE'BRIATE, noun A habitual drunkard.

Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety terminated by much pale urine, profuse sweats, etc.

Inebriated

INE'BRIATED, participle passive Intoxicated.

Inebriating

INE'BRIATING, participle present tense Making drunk; intoxicating.

Inebriation

INEBRIA'TION, noun Drunkenness; intoxication.

Inebriety

INEBRI'ETY, noun Drunkenness; intoxication.

Inedited

INED'ITED, adjective [in and edited.] Unpublished.

Ineffable

INEF'FABLE, adjective [Latin ineffabilis; in and effabilis, from effor, to speak.] Unspeakable; unutterable; that cannot be expressed in words; usually in a good sense; as the ineffable joys of heaven; the ineffable glories of the Deity.

Ineffableness

INEF'FABLENESS, noun Unspeakableness; quality of being unutterable.

Ineffably

INEF'FABLY, adverb Unspeakably; in a manner not to be expressed in words.

Ineffective

INEFFECT'IVE, adjective [in and effective.] Not effective; not producing any effect, or the effect intended; inefficient; useless.

The word of God, without the spirit, is a dead and ineffective letter.

1. Not able; not competent to the service intended; as ineffective troops; ineffective force.

2. Producing no effect.

Ineffectual

INEFFECT'UAL, adjective [in and effectual.] Not producing its proper effect, or not able to produce its effect; inefficient; weak; as an ineffectual remedy; the Spaniards made an ineffectual attempt to reduce Gibraltar. [See Inefficacious.]

Ineffectually

INEFFECT'UALLY, adverb Without effect; in vain.

Ineffectualness

INEFFECT'UALNESS, noun Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy.

James speaks of the ineffectualness of some men's devotion.

Ineffervescence

INEFFERVES'CENCE, noun [in and effervescence.]

Want of effervescence; a state of not effervescing.

Ineffervescent

INEFFERVES'CENT, adjective Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence.

Ineffervescibility

INEFFERVESCIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of not effervescing, or not being susceptible of effervescence.

Ineffervescible

INEFFERVES'CIBLE, adjective Not capable of effervescence.

Inefficacious

INEFFICA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin inefficax; in and efficax, efficio, to effect; ex and facio, to make.]

Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effect desired, or the proper effect; of inadequate power or force.

Ineffectual, says Johnson, rather denotes an actual failure, and inefficacious an habitual impotence to any effect. But the distinction is not always observed, nor can it be; for we cannot always know whether means are inefficacious till experiment has proved them ineffectual; nor even then, for we cannot be certain that the failure of means to produce an effect is to be attributed to habitual want of power, or to accidental and temporary causes.

Inefficacious is therefore sometimes synonymous with ineffectual.

Inefficaciously

INEFFICA'CIOUSLY, adverb Without efficacy or effect.

Inefficaciousness

INEFFICA'CIOUSNESS, noun Want of power to produce the effect, or want of effect.

Inefficacy

INEF'FICACY, noun [in and efficacy, Latin efficacia.]

1. Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; as the inefficacy of medicines or of means.

2. Ineffectualness; failure of effect.

Inefficiency

INEFFI'CIENCY, noun [in and efficiency.] Want of power or exertion of power to produce the effect; inefficacy.

Inefficient

INEFFI'CIENT, adjective [in and efficient.] Not efficient; not producing the effect; inefficacious.

1. Not active; effecting nothing; as an inefficient force.

Inefficiently

INEFFI'CIENTLY, adverb Ineffectually; without effect.

Inelaborate

INELAB'ORATE, adjective Not elaborate; not wrought with care.

Inelastic

INELAS'TIC, adjective [in and elastic.]

Not elastic; wanting elasticity; unelastic.

Inelasticity

INELASTIC'ITY, noun The absence of elasticity; the want of elastic power.

Inelegance

INEL'EGANCE

INEL'EGANCY, noun [See Inelegant.] Want of elegance; want of beauty or polish in language, composition or manners; want of symmetry or ornament in building; want of delicacy in coloring, etc.

Inelegancy

INEL'EGANCY, n. [See Inelegant.] Want of elegance; want of beauty or polish in language, composition or manners; want of symmetry or ornament in building; want of delicacy in coloring, &c.

Inelegant

INEL'EGANT, adjective [Latin inelegans; in and elegans, from the root of eligo, to choose.] Not elegant; wanting beauty or polish, as language, or refinement, as manners; wanting symmetry or ornament, as an edifice; in short, wanting in any thing which correct taste requires.

Inelegantly

INEL'EGANTLY, adverb In an inelegant or unbecoming manner; coarsely; roughly.

Ineligibility

INELIGIBIL'ITY, noun [from ineligible.] Incapacity of being elected to an office.

1. State or quality of not being worthy of choice.

Ineligible

INEL'IGIBLE, adjective [in and eligible.] Not capable of being elected to an office.

1. Not worthy to be chosen or preferred; not expedient.

Ineloquent

INEL'OQUENT, adjective [in and eloquent.] Not eloquent; not speaking with fluency, propriety, grace and pathos; not persuasive; used of persons.

1. Not fluent, graceful or pathetic; not persuasive; as language or composition.

Ineloquently

INEL'OQUENTLY, adverb Without eloquence.

Ineluctable

INELUCT'ABLE, adjective [Latin ineluctabilis.] Not to be resisted by struggling; not to be overcome. [Not used.]

Ineludible

INELU'DIBLE, adjective [in and eludible.] That cannot be eluded or defeated.

Inenarrable

INENAR'RABLE, adjective [Latin inenarrabilis.]

That cannot be narrated or told.

Inept

INEPT', adjective [Latin ineptus; in and aptus, fit, apt.]

1. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable.

2. Improper; unbecoming; foolish.

Ineptitude

INEPT'ITUDE, noun Unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness; as an ineptitude to motion.

Ineptly

INEPT'LY, adverb Unfitly; unsuitably; foolishly.

Ineptness

INEPT'NESS, noun Unfitness.

Inequal

INE'QUAL, adjective [in and equal.] Unequal; uneven; various.

Inequality

INEQUAL'ITY, noun [Latin inoequalitas; in and oequalis, equal.]

1. Difference or want of equality in degree, quantity, length, or quality of any kind; the state of not having equal measure, degree, dimensions or amount; as an inequality in size or stature; an inequality of number or of power; inequality of distances or of motions.

2. Unevenness; want of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab.

3. Disproportion to any office or purpose inadequacy; incompetency; as the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a rational soul.

4. Diversity; want of uniformity in different times or places, as the inequality of air or temperature.

5. Difference of rank, station or condition; as the inequalities of men in society; inequalities of rank or property.

Inequidistant

INEQUIDIS'TANT, adjective Not being equally distant.

Inequilateral

INEQUILAT'ERAL, adjective Having unequal sides.

Inequitable

INEQ'UITABLE, adjective [in and equitable.] Not equitable; not just.

Inequivalve

INE'QUIVALVE

INEQUIVAL'VULAR, adjective Having unequal valves.

Inequivalvular

INEQUIVAL'VULAR, a. Having unequal valves.

Inerm

INERM'

INERM'OUS, adjective [Latin inermis; in and arma, arms.]

Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf; a botanical word.

Inermous

INERM'OUS, a. [L. inermis; in and arma, arms.]

Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf; a botanical word.

Inerrability

INERRABIL'ITY, noun [from inerrable.] Exemption from error or from the possibility of erring; infallibility.

Inerrable

INER'RABLE, adjective [in and err.] That cannot err; exempt from error or mistake; infallible.

Inerrableness

INER'RABLENESS, noun Exemption from error; inerrability.

Inerrably

INER'RABLY, adverb With security from error; infallibly.

Inerratic

INERRAT'IC, adjective [in and erratic.] Not erratic or wandering; fixed.

Inerringly

INER'RINGLY, adverb Without error, mistake or deviation.

Inert

INERT', adjective [Latin iners; in and ars, art. The English sense is drawn not from art, but from the primary sense, strength or vigorous action.]

1. Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion impressed; as, matter is inert

2. Dull; sluggish; indisposed to move or act.

Inertion

INER'TION, noun Want of activity; want of action or exertion.

These vicissitudes of exertion and inertion of the arterial system, constitute the paroxysms of remittent fever.

Inertitude

INERT'ITUDE, noun The state of being inert, or a tendency to remain quiescent till impelled by external force to move.

Inertly

INERT'LY, adverb Without activity; sluggishly.

Inertness

INERT'NESS, noun The state or quality of being inert, or destitute of the power to move per se; that quality of passiveness by which bodies persist in a state of rest, or of motion given to them by external force. In the language of philosophy, this quality is called vis inertioe, or inertia.

1. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness.

In esse, [Latin] in being; actually existing; distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be.

Inescate

INES'CATE, verb transitive [Latin inesco.] To bait; to lay a bait for.

Inescation

INESCA'TION, noun The act of baiting.

Inestimable

INES'TIMABLE, adjective [Latin inoestimabilis. See Estimate.]

1. That cannot be estimated or computed; as an inestimable sum of money.

2. Too valuable or excellent to be rated; being above all price; as inestimable rights. The privileges of American citizens, civil and religious, are inestimable

Inestimably

INES'TIMABLY, adverb In a manner not to be estimated or rated.

Inevidence

INEV'IDENCE, noun Want of evidence; obscurity.

Inevident

INEV'IDENT, adjective [in and evident.]

Not evident; not clear or obvious; obscure.

Inevitability

INEVITABIL'ITY, noun [from inevitable.]to be avoided; certainty to happen.

Inevitable

INEV'ITABLE, adjective [Latin inevitabilis; in and evitabilis, from evito, to shun.] Not to be avoided; that cannot be shunned; unavoidable; that admits of no escape or evasion. To die is the inevitable lot of man; we are all subjected to many inevitable calamities.

Inevitableness

INEV'ITABLENESS, noun The state of being unavoidable.

Inevitably

INEV'ITABLY, adverb Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly.

How inevitably does immoderate laughter end in a sigh!

Inexact

INEXACT', adjective [in and exact.] Not exact; not precisely correct or true.

Inexactness

INEXACT'NESS, noun Incorrectness; want of precision.

Inexcitable

INEXCI'TABLE, adjective [in and excitable.] Not susceptible of excitement; dull; lifeless; torpid.