Inexcusable – Infrigidation

Inexcusable

INEXCU'SABLE, adjective s as z. [Latin inexcusabilis; in and excusabilis, excuso. See Excuse.] Not to be excused or justified; as inexcusable folly.

Inexcusableness

INEXCU'SABLENESS, noun The quality of not admitting of excuse or justification; enormity beyond forgiveness or palliation.

This inexcusableness is stated on the supposition that they knew God, but did not glorify him.

Inexcusably

INEXCU'SABLY, adverb With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification.

Inexecution

INEXECU'TION, noun Neglect of execution; non-performance; as the inexecution of a treaty.

Inexertion

INEXER'TION, noun [in and exertion.] Want of exertion; want of effort; defect of action.

Inexhalable

INEXHA'LABLE, adjective [in and exhalable, Latin exhalo.]

Not to be exhaled or evaporated; not evaporable.

Inexhausted

INEXHAUST'ED, adjective [in and exhausted.]

1. Not exhausted; not emptied; unexhausted.

2. Not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted.

Inexhaustible

INEXHAUST'IBLE, adjective [in and exhaustible.]

1. That cannot be exhausted or emptied; unfailing; as an inexhaustible quantity or supply of water.

2. That cannot be wasted or spent; as inexhaustible stores of provisions.

Inexhaustibleness

INEXHAUST'IBLENESS, noun The state of being inexhaustible.

Inexhaustive

INEXHAUST'IVE, adjective Not to be exhausted.

Inexistence

INEXIST'ENCE, noun [in and existence.]

1. Want of being or existence.

2. Inherence.

Inexistent

INEXIST'ENT, adjective [in and existent.] Not having being; not existing.

1. Existing in something else.

Inexorability

INEXORABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being inexorable or unyielding to entreaty.

Inexorable

INEX'ORABLE, adjective [Latin inexorabilis; in and exorabilis, from exoro, to entreat; ex and oro, to pray.]

1. Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; too firm and determined in purpose to yield to supplication; as an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge.

2. Unyielding; that cannot be made to bend.

Inexorable equality of laws.

Inexorably

INEX'ORABLY, adverb So as to be immovable by intreaty.

Inexpectation

INEXPECTA'TION, noun State of having no expectation.

Inexpected

INEXPECT'ED, adjective Not expected. [Not in use.]

Inexpedience

INEXPE'DIENCE

INEXPE'DIENCY, noun [in and expedience.] Want of fitness; impropriety; unsuitableness to the purpose. The inexpedience of a measure is to be determined by the prospect of its advancing the purpose intended or not.

Inexpediency

INEXPE'DIENCY, n. [in and expedience.] Want of fitness; impropriety; unsuitableness to the purpose. The inexpedience of a measure is to be determined by the prospect of its advancing the purpose intended or not.

Inexpedient

INEXPE'DIENT, adjective [in and expedient.] Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to a good end; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place. Whatever tends to retard or defeat success in a good cause is inexpedient What is expedient at one time, may be inexpedient at another.

Inexperience

INEXPE'RIENCE, noun [in and experience.] Want of experience or experimental knowledge; as the inexperience of youth, or their inexperience of the world.

Inexperienced

INEXPE'RIENCED, adjective Not having experience; unskilled.

Inexpert

INEXPERT', adjective [in and expert.] Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.

In letters and in laws

Not inexpert

Inexpiably

INEX'PIABLY, adverb To a degree that admits of no atonement.

Inexpialbe

INEX'PIALBE, adjective [Latin inexpiabilis. See Expiate.]

1. That admits of no atonement or satisfaction; as an inexpiable crime or offense.

2. That cannot be mollified or appeased by atonement; as inexpiable hate.

Inexplainable

INEXPLA'INABLE, adjective That cannot be explained; inexplicable. [The latter word is generally used.]

Inexpleably

INEXPLE'ABLY, adverb Insatiably. [Not used.]

Inexplicable

INEX'PLICABLE, adjective [Latin inexplicabilis; in and explico, to unfold.]

That cannot be explained or interpreted; not capable of being rendered plain and intelligible; as an inexplicable mystery.

Inexplicably

INEX'PLICABLY, adverb In a manner not to be explained.

Inexplorable

INEXPLO'RABLE, adjective [in and explorable, from explore.]

That cannot be explored, searched or discovered.

Inexposure

INEXPO'SURE, noun [in and exposure.]

A state of not being exposed.

Inexpressible

INEXPRESS'IBLE, adjective [in and expressible, from express.]

Not to be expressed in words; not to be uttered; unspeakable; unutterable; as inexpressible grief, joy or pleasure.

Inexpressibly

INEXPRESS'IBLY, adverb In a manner or degree not to be told or expressed in words; unspeakably; unutterably.

Inexpressive

INEXPRESS'IVE, adjective Not tending to express; not expressing; inexpressible.

Inexpugnable

INEXPUG'NABLE, adjective [Latin inexpugnabilis; in and expugno; ex and pugno, to fight.] Not to be subdued by force; not to be taken by assault; impregnable.

Inexsuperable

INEXSU'PERABLE, adjective [Latin inexsuperabilis.]

Not to be passed over or surmounted.

Inextended

INEXTEND'ED, adjective Having no extension.

Inextension

INEXTEN'SION, noun [in and extension.]

Want of extension; unextended state.

Inexterminable

INEXTERM'INABLE, adjective [in and exterminable.]

That cannot be exterminated.

Inextinct

INEXTINCT', adjective Not quenched; not extinct.

Inextinguishable

INEXTIN'GUISHABLE, adjective [in and extinguishable.] That cannot be extinguished; unquenchable; as inextinguishable flame, thirst or desire.

Inextirpable

INEXTIR'PABLE, adjective That cannot be extirpated.

Inextricable

INEX'TRICABLE, adjective [Latin inextricabilis. See Extricate.]

1. Not to be disentangled; not to be freed from intricacy or perplexity; as an inextricable maze or difficulty.

2. Not to be untied; as an inextricable knot.

Inextricableness

INEX'TRICABLENESS, noun The state of being inextricable.

Inextricably

INEX'TRICABLY, adverb To a degree of perplexity not to be disentangled.

Ineye

INEYE, verb transitive To inoculate; as a tree or a bud.

Infabricated

INFAB'RICATED, adjective Unfabricated; unwrought. [Not used.]

Infallibility

INFALLIBIL'ITY

INFAL'LIBLE, adjective [Latin fallo.]

1. Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; applied to persons. No man is infallible; to be infallible is the prerogative of God only.

2. Not liable to fail, or to deceive confidence; certain; as infallible evidence; infallible success.

To whom he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs--

Infallible

INFAL'LIBLE, a. [L. fallo.] 1. Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; applied to persons. No man is infallible; to be infallible is the prerogative of God only.2. Not liable to fail, or to deceive confidence; certain; as infallible evidence; infallible success. To whom he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs--

Infallibleness

INFAL'LIBLENESS, noun [from infallible.] The quality of being incapable of error or mistake; entire exemption from liability to error; inerrability. No human being can justly lay claim to infallibility. This is an attribute of God only.

Infallibly

INFAL'LIBLY, adverb Without a possibility of erring or mistaking.

1. Certainly; without a possibility of failure. Our Savior has directed us to conduct that will infallibly render us happy.

Infame

INFA'ME, verb transitive To defame. [Not used.]

Infamous

IN'FAMOUS, adjective [Latin infamis; infamo, to defame; in and fama, fame.]

1. Of ill report, emphatically; having a reputation of the worst kind; publicly branded with odium for vice of guilt; base; scandalous; notoriously vile; used of persons; as an infamous liar; an infamous rake or gambler.

2. Odious; detestable; held in abhorrence; that renders a person infamous rake or gambler.

3. Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime. An infamous person cannot be a witness.

Infamously

IN'FAMOUSLY, adverb In a manner or degree to render infamous; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully.

1. With open reproach.

Infamousness

IN'FAMOUSNESS

IN'FAMY, noun [Latin infamia; in and fama, report.]

1. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace. Avoid the crimes and vices which expose men to infamy.

2. Qualities which are detested and despised; qualities notoriously bad and scandalous; as the infamy of an action.

3. In law, that loss of character or public disgrace which a convict incurs, and by which a person is rendered incapable of being a witness or juror.

Infamy

IN'FAMY, n. [L. infamia; in and fama, report.] 1. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace. Avoid the crimes and vices which expose men to infamy.2. Qualities which are detested and despised; qualities notoriously bad and scandalous; as the infamy of an action.3. In law, that loss of character or public disgrace which a convict incurs, and by which a person is rendered incapable of being a witness or juror.

Infancy

IN'FANCY, noun [Latin infantia. See Infant.]

1. The first part of life, beginning at the birth. In common usage, infancy extends not beyond the first year or two of life, but there is not a defined limit where infancy ends, and childhood begins.

2. In law, infancy extends to the age of twenty one years.

3. The first age of any thing; the beginning or early period of existence; as the infancy of the Roman republic; the infancy of a college or of a charitable society; the infancy of agriculture, of manufactures, or of commerce.

Infandous

INFAND'OUS, adjective [Latin infandus.]

Too odious to be expressed. [Not in use.]

Infangthef

INFANG'THEF, noun In English law, the privilege granted to lords to judge thieves taken on their manors, or within their franchises.

Infant

IN'FANT, noun [Latin infans; in and fans, speaking, fari, to speak.]

1. A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe. In common usage, a child ceases to be called an infant within the first or second year, but at no definite period. In some cases, authors indulge a greater latitude, and extend the term to include children of several years of age.

2. In law, a person under the age of twenty one years, who is incapable of making valid contracts.

IN'FANT, adjective Pertaining to infancy or the first period of life.

1. Young; tender; not mature; as infant strength.

Infanta

INFANT'A, noun In Spain and Portugal, any princes of the royal blood, except the eldest daughter when heiress apparent.

Infante

INFANT'E, noun In Spain and Portugal, any son of the king, except the eldest or heir apparent.

Infanticide

INFANT'ICIDE, noun [Low Latin infanticidium; infans, an infant, and coedo, to kill.]

1. The intentional killing of an infant.

2. The slaughter of infants by Herod. Matthew 2:1.

3. A slayer of infants.

Infantile

IN'FANTILE, adjective [Latin infantilis.] Pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; pertaining to the first period of life.

Infantine

IN'FANTINE, adjective Pertaining to infants or to young children.

Infantlike

IN'FANTLIKE, adjective Like an infant.

Infantly

IN'FANTLY, adjective Like a child's.

Infantry

IN'FANTRY, noun In military affairs, the soldiers or troops that serve on foot, as distinguished from cavalry; as a company, regiment or brigade of infantry In some armies, there have been heavy-armed infantry and light-armed or light infantry according to their manner of arming and equipping.

Infarce

INF'ARCE, verb transitive infars. To stuff. [Not in use.]

Infarction

INFARC'TION, noun [Latin infarcio, infercio, to stuff; in and farcio.]

The act of stuffing or filling; constipation.

Infashionable

INFASH'IONABLE, adjective Unfashionable. [Not used.]

Infatigable

INFAT'IGABLE, adjective Indefatigable.

Infatuate

INFAT'UATE, verb transitive [Latin infatuo; in and fatuus, foolish.]

1. To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers, or to deprive of sound judgment. In general, this word does not signify to deprive absolutely of rational powers and reduce to idiocy, but to deprive of sound judgment, so that a person infatuated acts in certain cases as a fool, or without common discretion and prudence. Whom God intends to destroy, he first infatuates.

The judgment of God will be very visible in infatuating a people, ripe and prepared for destruction.

2. To prepossess or incline to a person or thing in a manner not justified by prudence or reason; to inspire with an extravagant or foolish passion, too obstinate to be controlled by reason. Men are often infatuated with a love of gaming, or of sensual pleasure.

Infatuated

INFAT'UATED, participle passive Affected with folly.

Infatuating

INFAT'UATING, participle present tense Affecting with folly.

Infatuation

INFATUA'TION, noun The act of affecting with folly.

1. A state of mind in which the intellectual powers are weakened, either generally, or in regard to particular objects, so that the person affected acts without his usual judgment, and contrary to the dictates of reason. All men who waste their substance in gaming, intemperance or any other vice, are chargeable with infatuation

Infausting

INFAUST'ING, noun [Latin infaustus.] The act of making unlucky.

Infeasibility

INFEASIBIL'ITY

INFE'ASIBLE, adjective s as z. [in and feasible, Latin facio.]

Not to be done; that cannot be accomplished; impracticable.

Infeasible

INFE'ASIBLE, a. s as z. [in and feasible, L. facio.]

Not to be done; that cannot be accomplished; impracticable.

Infeasibleness

INFE'ASIBLENESS, noun s as z. [from infeasible.]

Impracticability; the quality of not being capable of being done or performed.

Infect

INFECT', verb transitive [Latin inficio, infectus; in and facio.]

1. To taint with disease; to infuse into a healthy body the virus, miasma, or morbid matter of a diseased body, or any pestilential or noxious air or substance by which a disease is produced. Persons in health are infected by the contagion of the plague, of syphilis, of small pox, of measles, of malignant fevers. In some cases, persons can be infected only by contact, as in syphilis; in most cases, they may be infected without contact with the diseased body.

2. To taint or affect with morbid or noxious matter; as, to infect a lancet; to infect clothing; to infect an apartment.

3. To communicate bad qualities to; to corrupt; to taint by the communication of any thing noxious or pernicious. It is melancholy to see the young infected and corrupted by vicious examples, or the minds of our citizens infected with errors.

4. To contaminate with illegality.

INFECT', adjective Infected. [Not used.]

Infected

INFECT'ED, participle passive Tainted with noxious matter; corrupted by poisonous exhalations; corrupted by bad qualities communicated.

Infecter

INFECT'ER, noun He or that which infects.

Infecting

INFECT'ING, participle present tense Tainting; corrupting.

Infection

INFEC'TION, noun [Latin inficio.] The act of infecting, or the act by which poisonous matter, morbid miasmata or exhalations produce disease in a healthy body. The words contagion and infection are frequently confounded. The proper distinction between them is this. Contagion is the virus or effluvium generated in a diseased body, and capable of producing the specific disease in a healthy body by contact or otherwise. Marsh miasm is not properly contagion. infection is any thing that taints or corrupts; hence it includes contagion, and any other morbid, noxious matter which may excite disease in a healthy body. Hence,

1. The morbid cause which excites disease in a healthy or uninfected body. This cause may be contagion from a diseased body, or other poisonous or noxious matter received into the body or under the skin. The infection of the plague and of yellow fever, is said to be imported in ships and conveyed in clothing; persons are said to take the infection from a diseased person, or from the air of apartments where the sick are confined. The infection spreads in a city, or it is free from infection Pestilential exhalations are called infections.

Infection is used in two acceptations; first, as denoting the effluvium or infectious matter exhaled from the person of one diseased, in which sense it is synonymous with contagion; and secondly, as signifying the act of communication of such morbid effluvium, by which disease is transferred.

2. That which taints, poisons or corrupts by communication from one to another; as the infection of error or of evil example.

3. Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods.

4. Communication of like qualities.

Mankind are gay or serious by infection

Infectious

INFEC'TIOUS, adjective Having qualities that may taint, or communicate disease to; as an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious miasma.

1. Corrupting; tending to taint by communication; as infectious vices or manners.

2. Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.

Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature.

3. Capable of being communicated by near approach.

Grief as well as joy is infectious

Infectiously

INFEC'TIOUSLY, adverb By infection.

Infectiousness

INFEC'TIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being infectious, or capable of communicating disease or taint from one to another.

Infective

INFECT'IVE, adjective Having the quality of communicating disease or taint from one to another.

Infecund

INFE'CUND, adjective [Latin infoecundus; in and foecundus, prolific.]

Unfruitful; not producing young; barren.

Infecundity

INFECUND'ITY, noun [Latin infoecunditas.] Unfruitfulness; barrenness.

Infelicity

INFELIC'ITY, noun [Latin infelicitas. See Felicity.]

Unhappiness; misfortune.

1. Unfortunate state; unfaborableness; as the infelicity of the times, or of the occasion.

Infeoff

INFEOFF. [See Enfeoff.]

Infer

INFER', verb transitive [Latin infero; in and fero, to bear or produce.]

1. Literally, to bring on; to induce. [Little used.]

2. To deduce; to draw or derive, as a fact or consequence. From the character of God, as creator and governor of the world, we infer the indispensable obligation of all his creatures to obey his commands. We infer one proposition or truth from another, when we perceive that if one is true, the other must be true also.

3. To offer; to produce. [Not used.]

Inferable

INFER'ABLE, adjective That may be inferred or deduced from premises.

Inference

IN'FERENCE, noun A truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion. Inferences result from reasoning, as when the mind perceives such a connection between ideas, as that, if certain propositions called premises are true, the conclusions or propositions deduced from them must also be true.

Inferior

INFE'RIOR, adjective [Latin comparative from inferus, low.]

1. Lower in place.

2. Lower in station, age, or rank in life. Pay due respect to those who are superior in station, and due civility to those who are inferior

3. Lower in excellence or value; as a poem of inferior merit; cloth of inferior quality or price.

4. Subordinate; of less importance. Attend to health and safety; ease and convenience are inferior considerations.

INFE'RIOR, noun A person who is younger, or of a lower station or rank in society.

A person gets more by obliging his inferior than by disdaining him.

Inferiority

INFERIOR'ITY, noun A lower state of dignity, age, value or quality. We speak of the inferiority of rank, of office, of talents, of age, of worth.

Infernal

INFERN'AL, adjective [Latin infernus.]

1. Properly, pertaining to the lower regions, or regions of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. Hence,

2. Pertaining to hell; inhabiting hell; as infernal spirits.

3. Hellish; resembling the temper of infernal spirits; malicious; diabolical; very wicked and detestable.

INFERN'AL, noun An inhabitant of hell, or of the lower regions.

Infernal stone [Lapis infernalis.] a name formerly given to lunar caustic, a substance prepared from an evaporated solution of silver, or from crystals of silver.

Lunar caustic is nitrate of silver fused and cast in small cylinders.

Infertile

INFER'TILE, adjective [Latin infertilis; in and fertilis.]

Not fertile; not fruitful or productive; barren; as an infertile soil.

Infertility

INFERTIL'ITY, noun Unfruitfulness; unproductiveness; barrenness; as the infertility of land.

Infest

INFEST', verb transitive [Latin infesto.] To trouble greatly; to disturb; to annoy; to harass. In warm weather, men ar infested with musketoes and gnats; flies infest horses and cattle. The sea is often infested with pirates. Small parties of the enemy infest the coast.

These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life.

Infestation

INFESTA'TION, noun The act of infesting; molestation.

Infested

INFEST'ED, participle passive Troubled; annoyed; harassed; plagued.

Infestered

INFES'TERED, adjective [in and fester.] Rankling; inveterate.

Infesting

INFEST'ING, participle present tense Annoying; harassing; disturbing.

Infestive

INFEST'IVE, adjective [in and festive.] Having no mirth.

Infestivity

INFESTIV'ITY, noun [in and festivity.] Want of festivity, or of cheerfulness and mirth at entertainments.

Infestuous

INFEST'UOUS, adjective [Latin infestus.] Mischievous. [Not used.]

Infeudation

INFEUDA'TION, noun [in and feudum, feud.]

1. The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee.

2. The granting of tithes to laymen.

Infidel

IN'FIDEL, adjective [Latin infidelis; in and fidelis; faithful.]

Unbelieving; disbelieving the inspiration of the Scriptures, or the divine institution of christianity.

The infidel writer is a great enemy to society.

IN'FIDEL, noun One who disbelieves the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the divine origin of christianity.

Infidelity

INFIDEL'ITY, noun [Latin infidelitas.]

1. In general, want of faith or belief; a withholding of credit.

2. Disbelief of the inspiration of the Scriptures, or the divine original of christianity; unbelief.

There is no doubt that vanity is one principal cause of infidelity

3. Unfaithfulness, particularly in married persons; a violation of the marriage covenant by adultery or lewdness.

4. Breach of trust; treachery; deceit; as the infidelity of a friend or a servant. In this sense, unfaithfulness is most used.

Infiltrate

INFIL'TRATE, verb intransitive To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance.

Infiltrating

INFIL'TRATING, participle present tense Penetrating by the pores or interstices.

Infiltration

INFILTRA'TION, noun The act or process of entering the pores or cavities of a body.

1. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body.

Calcarious infiltrations, filling the cavities of other stones.

Infinite

IN'FINITE, adjective [Latin infinitus; in and finitus, terminated.]

1. Without limits; unbounded; boundless; not circumscribed; applied to time, space and qualities. God is infinite in duration, having neither beginning nor end of existence. He is also infinite in presence, or omnipresent, and his perfections are infinite We also speak of infinite space.

2. That will have no end. Thus angels and men, though they have had a beginning, will exist in infinite duration.

3. That has a beginning in space, but is infinitely extended; as, a line beginning at a point, but extended indefinitely, is an infinite line.

4. infinite is used loosely and hyperbolically for indefinitely large, immense, of great size or extent.

Infinite canon, in music, a perpetual fugue.

Infinitely

IN'FINITELY, adverb Without bounds or limits.

1. Immensely; greatly; to a great extent or degree; as, I am infinitely obliged by your condescension.

Infiniteness

IN'FINITENESS, noun Boundless extent of time, space or qualities; infinity.

1. Immensity; greatness.

Infinitesimal

INFINITES'IMAL, adjective Indefinitely small.

INFINITES'IMAL, noun An indefinitely small quantity.

Infinitive

INFIN'ITIVE, adjective [Latin infinitivus.]

In grammar, the infinitive mode expresses the action of the verb, without limitation of person or number; as, to love.

Infinitude

INFIN'ITUDE, noun Infinity; infiniteness; the quality or state of being without limits; infinite extent; as the infinitude of space, of time, or of perfections.

1. Immensity; greatness.

2. Boundless number.

Infinity

INFIN'ITY, noun [Latin infinitas.]

1. Unlimited extent of time, space or quantity; boundlessness. We apply infinity to God and his perfections; we speak of the infinity of his existence, his knowledge, his power, his goodness and holiness.

2. Immensity; indefinite extent.

3. Endless or indefinite number; a hyperbolical use of the word; as an infinity of beauties.

Infirm

INFIRM, adjective inferm'. [Latin infirmus; in and firmus.]

1. Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as an infirm body; an infirm constitution.

2. Weak of mind; irresolute; as infirm of purpose.

3. Not solid or stable.

He who fixes on false principles, treads on infirm ground.

INFIRM, verb transitive inferm'. To weaken. [Not used.]

Infirmary

INFIRMARY, noun inferm'ary. A hospital or place where the sick are lodged and nursed.

Infirmity

INFIRMITY, noun inferm'ity. [Latin infirmitas.]

1. An unsound or unhealthy state of the body; weakness; feebleness. Old age is subject to infirmities.

2. Weakness of mind; failing; fault; foible.

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.

3. Weakness of resolution.

4. Any particular disease; malady; applied rather to chronic, than to violent diseases.

5. Defect; imperfection; weakness; as the infirmities of a constitution of government.

Infirmness

INFIRMNESS, noun inferm'ness. Weakness; feebleness; unsoundness.

Infix

INFIX', verb transitive [Latin infixus, infigo; in and figo, to fix.]

1. To fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear or dart.

2. To set in; to fasten in something.

3. To implant or fix, as principles, thoughts, instructions, as, to infix good principles in the mind, or ideas in the memory.

Infixed

INFIX'ED, participle passive Thrust in; set in; inserted; deeply implanted.

Infixing

INFIX'ING, participle present tense Thrusting in; setting in; implanting.

Inflame

INFLA'ME, verb transitive [Latin inflammo; in and flamma, flame.]

1. To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn; in a literal sense. But more generally,

2. To excite or increase, as passion or appetite; to enkindle into violent action; as, to inflame love, lust or thirst; to inflame desire or anger.

3. To exaggerate; to aggravate in description.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. [Unusual.]

4. To heat; to excite excessive action in the blood; as to inflame the blood or body; to inflame with wine.

5. To provoke; to irritate; to anger.

6. To increase; to exasperate; as, to inflame the enmity of parties, or the spirit of sedition.

7. To increase; to augment; as, to inflame a presumption.

INFLA'ME, verb intransitive To grow hot, angry and painful.

Inflamed

INFLA'MED, participle passive Set on fire; enkindled; heated; provoked; exasperated.

Inflamer

INFLA'MER, noun The person or thing that inflames.

Inflaming

INFLA'MING, participle present tense Kindling; heating; provoking; exasperating.

Inflammability

INFLAMMABIL'ITY, noun Susceptibility of taking fire.

Inflammable

INFLAM'MABLE, adjective That may be set on fire; easily enkindled; susceptible of combustion; as inflammable oils or spirits.

Inflammableness

INFLAM'MABLENESS, noun The quality of being susceptible of flame, or capable of taking fire; inflammability.

Inflammation

INFLAMMA'TION, noun [Latin inflammatio.]

1. The act of setting on fire or inflaming.

2. The state of being in flame.

3. In medicine and surgery, a redness and swelling of any part of an animal body, attended with heat, pain and febrile symptoms.

4. Violent excitement; heat; animosity; turbulence; as an inflammation of the body politic, or of parties.

Inflammatory

INFLAM'MATORY, adjective Inflaming; tending to excite heat or inflammation; as medicines of an inflammatory nature.

1. Accompanied with preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as an inflammatory fever or disease.

2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult or sedition; as inflammatory libels, writings, speeches or publications.

Inflate

INFLA'TE, verb transitive [Latin inflatus, from inflo; in and flo, to blow.]

1. To swell or distend by injecting air; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs.

2. To fill with the breath; to blow in.

3. To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity.

INFLA'TE

Inflated

INFLA'TED, adjective In botany, puffed; hollow and distended; as a perianth, corol, nectary, or pericarp.

INFLA'TED, participle passive Swelled or distended with air; puffed up.

Inflating

INFLA'TING, participle present tense Distending with air; puffing up.

Inflation

INFLA'TION, noun [Latin inflatio.] The act of inflating.

1. The state of being distended with air injected or inhaled.

2. The state of being puffed up, as with vanity.

3. Conceit.

Inflect

INFLECT', verb transitive [Latin inflecto; in and flecto, to bend.]

1. To bend; to turn from a direct line or course.

Are not the rays of the sun reflected, refracted and inflected by one and the same principle?

2. In grammar, to vary a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.

3. To modulate, as the voice.

Inflected

INFLECT'ED, participle passive Bent or turned from a direct line or course; as an inflected ray of light; varied in termination.

Inflecting

INFLECT'ING, participle present tense Bending or turning from its course; varying in termination; modulating, as the voice.

Inflection

INFLEC'TION, noun [Latin inflectio.] The act of bending or turning from a direct line or course.

1. In optics, a property of light by which its rays, when they approach a body, are bent towards it or from it.

2. In grammar, the variation of nouns, etc., by declension, and verbs by conjugation.

3. Modulation of the voice in speaking.

More commonly inflection gives significance to tones.

Point of inflection in geometry, the point where a curve begins to bend the contrary way.

Inflective

INFLECT'IVE, adjective Having the power of bending; as the inflective quality of the air.

Inflexed

INFLEX'ED, adjective [Latin inflexus.] Turned; bent.

Inflexibility

INFLEXIBIL'ITY

INFLEX'IBLE, adjective [Latin inflexibilis.]

1. That cannot be bent; as an inflexible oak.

2. That will not yield to prayers or arguments; firm in purpose; not to be prevailed on; that cannot be turned; as a man of upright and inflexible temper.

3. Not to be changed or altered.

The nature of things is inflexible.

Inflexible

INFLEX'IBLE, a. [L. inflexibilis.] 1. That cannot be bent; as an inflexible oak.2. That will not yield to prayers or arguments; firm in purpose; not to be prevailed on; that cannot be turned; as a man of upright and inflexible temper.3. Not to be changed or altered. The nature of things is inflexible.

Inflexibleness

INFLEX'IBLENESS, noun [Latin in and flexibilis, from flecto, to bend.]

1. The quality of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent; unyielding stiffness.

2. Obstinacy of will or temper; firmness of purpose that will not yield to importunity or persuasion; unbending pertinacity.

Inflexibly

INFLEX'IBLY, adverb With a firmness that resists all importunity or persuasion; with unyielding pertinaciousness; inexorable. A judge should be inflexibly just and impartial.

Inflexion

INFLEXION. [See Inflection.]

Inflict

INFLICT', verb transitive [Latin inflictus, infligo; in and fligo, to strike; Eng. to flog.]

To lay on; to throw or send on; to apply; as, to inflict pain or disgrace; to inflict punishment on an offender.

To inflict an office, condition, knowledge, tenderness, etc. on one, as used by Chesterfield, is not an authorized use of the word.

Inflicted

INFLICT'ED, participle passive Laid on; applied; as punishment or judgments.

Inflicter

INFLICT'ER, noun He who lays on or applies.

Inflicting

INFLICT'ING, participle present tense Laying on; applying.

Infliction

INFLIC'TION, noun [Latin inflictio.] The act of laying on or applying; as the infliction of torment or of punishment.

1. The punishment applied.

His severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice and righteousness.

Inflictive

INFLICT'IVE, adjective Tending or able to inflict.

Inflorescence

INFLORES'CENCE, noun [Latin inflorescens, infloresco, infloreo; in and floreo, to blossom.]

1. In botany, a mode of flowering, or the manner in which flowers are supported on their foot-stalks or peduncles.

Inflorescence affords an excellent characteristic mark in distinguishing the species of plants.

2. A flowering; the unfolding of blossoms.

Influence

IN'FLUENCE, noun [Latin influens, influo, to flow in; in and fluo, to flow.] Literally, a flowing in, into or on, and referring to substances spiritual or too subtil to be visible, like inspiration. Hence the word was formerly followed by into.

God hath his influence into the very essence of all things.

It is not followed by on or with.

1. In a general sense, influence denotes power whose operation is invisible and known only by its effects, or a power whose cause and operation are unseen.

2. The power which celestial bodies are supposed to exert on terrestrial; as the influence of the planets on the birth and fortunes of men; an exploded doctrine of astrology.

3. Moral power; power of truth operating on the mind, rational faculties or will, in persuading or dissuading, as the influence of motives, of arguments, or of prayer. We say, arguments had no influence on the jury. The magistrate is not popular; he has no influence with the people; or he has great influence with the prince.

4. Physical power; power that affects natural bodies by unseen operation; as, the rays of the sun have an influence in whitening cloth, and in giving a green color to vegetables.

5. Power acting on sensibility; as the influence of love or pity in sympathy.

6. Spiritual power, or the immediate power of God on the mind; as divine influence; the influences of the Holy Spirit.

IN'FLUENCE, verb transitive To move by physical power operating by unseen laws or force; to affect.

These experiments succeed after the same manner in vacuo, as in the open air, and therefore are not influenced by the weight or pressure of the atmosphere.

1. To move by moral power; to act on and affect, as the mind or will, in persuading or dissuading; to induce. Men are influenced by motives of interest or pleasure. An orator may influence the people to take arms, or to abandon an enterprise.

2. To move, as the passions, as, to influence one by pity.

3. To lead or direct. This revelation is sufficient to influence our faith and practice.

Influenced

IN'FLUENCED, participle passive Moved; excited; affected; persuaded; induced.

Influencing

IN'FLUENCING, participle present tense Moving; affecting; inducing.

Influent

IN'FLUENT, adjective Flowing in. [Little used.]

Influential

INFLUEN'TIAL, adjective Exerting influence or power by invisible operation, as physical causes on bodies, or as moral causes on the mind. It is particularly used to express the operation of moral causes.

Influential characters, persons who possess the power of inclining or controlling the minds of others.

Influentially

INFLUEN'TIALLY, adverb By means of influence, so as to incline, move or direct.

Influenza

INFLUEN'ZA, noun An epidemic catarrh. The influenza of October and November, 1789, and that of April and May, 1790, were very general or universal in the United States, and unusually severe. A like influenza prevailed in the winters of 1825 and 1826.

Influx

IN'FLUX, noun [Latin influxus, influo; in and fluo, to flow.]

1. The act of flowing in; as an influx of light or other fluid.

2. Infusion; intromission.

The influx of the knowledge of God, in relation to everlasting life, is infinitely of moment.

3. Influence, power. [Not used.]

4. A coming in; introduction; importation in abundance; as a great influx of goods into a country, or an influx of gold and silver.

Influxion

INFLUX'ION, noun Infusion; intromission.

Influxious

INFLUX'IOUS, adjective Influential. [Not used.]

Influxive

INFLUX'IVE, adjective Having influence, or having a tendency to flow in.

Infold

INFOLD, verb intransitive [in and fold.] To involve; to wrap up or enwrap; to inclose.

INFOLD his limbs in bands.

1. To clasp with the arms; to embrace.

Noble Banco, let me infold thee,

And hold thee to my heart.

Infolded

INFOLDED, participle passive Involved; enwrapped; inclosed; embraced.

Infolding

INFOLDING, participle present tense Involving; wrapping up; clasping.

Infoliate

INFO'LIATE, verb transitive [Latin in and folium, a leaf.] To cover or overspread with leaves. [Not much used.]

Inform

INFORM', verb transitive [Latin informo, to shape; in and formo, forma, form.]

Properly, to give form or shape to, but in this sense not used.

1. To animate; to give life to; to actuate by vital powers.

Let others better mold the running mass

Of metals, and inform the breathing brass.

Breath informs this fleeting frame.

--Breathes in our soul, informs our vital part.

[This use is chiefly or wholly poetical.]

2. To instruct; to tell to; to acquaint; to communicate knowledge to; to make known to by word or writing; usually followed by of. Before we judge, we should be well informed of the facts relating to the case. A messenger arrived and informed the commander of the state of the troops. Letters from Europe inform us of the commencement of hostilities between the Persians and Turks.

3. To communicate a knowledge of facts to one by way of accusation.

Tertullus informed the governor against Paul. Acts 24:1.

In this application the verb is usually intransitive; as, A informed against B.

INFORM', verb intransitive To give intelligence.

He might either teach in the same manner, or inform how he had been taught--

To inform against, to communicate facts by way of accusation; to give intelligence of a breach of law. Two persons came to the magistrate, and informed against adjective

INFORM', adjective [Latin informis.] Without regular form; shapeless; ugly.

Informal

INFORM'AL, adjective [in and formal.] Not in the regular or usual form; as an informal writing; informal proceedings.

1. Not in the usual manner; not according to custom; as an informal visit.

2. Not with the official forms; as the secretary made to the envoy an informal communication.

Informality

INFORMAL'ITY, noun [from informal.] Want of regular or customary form. The informality of legal proceedings may render them void.

Informally

INFORM'ALLY, adverb In an irregular or informal manner; without the usual forms.

Informant

INFORM'ANT, noun One who informs, or gives intelligence.

1. One who offers an accusation. [See Informer, which is generally used.]

Informative

INFORM'ATIVE, adjective Having power to animate.

Informed

INFORM'ED, participle passive Told; instructed; made acquainted.

Informer

INFORM'ER, noun One who animates, informs or gives intelligence.

1. One who communicates, or whose duty it is to communicate to a magistrate a knowledge of the violations of law, and bring the offenders to trial.

Informidable

INFORM'IDABLE, adjective [in and formidable.] Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.

Foe not informidable

Informing

INFORM'ING, participle present tense Giving notice or intelligence; telling.

1. Communicating facts by way of accusation.

Informing officer, is an officer whose duty it is to inform against persons for breaches of law, as an attorney-general, a sheriff, constable, or grand juror.

A common informer, is any person who informs against another.

Informity

INFORM'ITY, noun [Latin informis.] Want of regular form; shapelessness.

Informous

INFORM'OUS, adjective [Latin informis.] Of no regular form or figure; shapeless.

Informtion

INFORM'TION, noun [Latin informatio.]

1. Intelligence; notice, news or advice communicated by word or writing. We received information of the capture of the ship by an arrival at Boston. The information by the messenger is confirmed by letters.

2. Knowledge derived from reading or instruction.

He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle.

3. Knowledge derived from the senses or from the operation of the intellectual faculties.

The active informations of the intellect--

4. Communication of facts for the purpose of accusation; a charge or accusation exhibited to a magistrate or court. An information is the accusation of a common informer or of a private person; the accusation of a grand jury is called an indictment or a presentment.

Infortunate

INFOR'TUNATE, adjective [Latin infortunatus.] Unlucky; unfortunate. [The latter is commonly used.]

Infortunately

INFOR'TUNATELY, adverb Unfortunately. [Not used.]

Infortune

INFOR'TUNE, noun Misfortune. [Not used.]

Infract

INFRACT', verb transitive [Latin infractus, from infringo; in and frango, to break.] To break; to violate. [This is synonymous with infringe; it is an unnecessary word and little used.]

Infraction

INFRAC'TION, noun [Latin infractio. See Infract.]

The act of breaking; breach; violation; non-observance; as an infraction of a treaty, compact, agreement or law.

Infractor

INFRACT'OR, noun One that violates an agreement, etc.

Inframundane

INFRAMUND'ANE, adjective [Latin infra, below and mundanus, mundus, the world.] Lying or being beneath the world.

Infrangible

INFRAN'GIBLE, adjective [in and frangible.]

1. Not to be broken or separated into parts; as infrangible atoms.

2. Not to be violated.

Infrequence

INFRE'QUENCE'

INFRE'QUENCY, noun [Latin infrequentia.] Uncommonness; rareness; the state of rarely occurring.

Infrequency

INFRE'QUENCY, n. [L.infrequentia.] Uncommonness; rareness; the state of rarely occurring.

Infrequent

INFRE'QUENT, adjective [Latin infrequens; in and frequens, frequent.]uncommon; seldom happening or occurring to notice; unfrequent.

Infrigidate

INFRIG'IDATE, verb transitive [Latin in and frigidus, cold.]

To chill; to make cold. [Little used.]

Infrigidation

INFRIGIDA'TION, noun The act of making cold.