Infringe – Innocency

Infringe

INFRINGE, verb transitive infrinj'. [Latin infringo; in and frango, to break. See Break.]

1. To break, as contracts; to violate, either positively by contravention, or negatively by non-fulfillment or neglect of performance. A prince or a private person infringes an agreement or covenant by neglecting to perform its conditions, as well as by doing what is stipulated not to be done.

2. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law.

3. To destroy or hinder; as, to infringe efficacy. [Little used.]

Infringed

INFRING'ED, participle passive Broken; violated; transgresses.

Infringement

INFRINGEMENT, noun infrinj'ment. Act of violating; breach; violation; non-fulfillment; as the infringement of a treaty, compact or other agreement; the infringement of a law or constitution.

Infringer

INFRING'ER, noun One who violates; a violator.

Infringing

INFRING'ING, participle present tense Breaking; violating; transgressing; failing to observe or fulfill.

Infucate

IN'FUCATE, verb transitive [Latin infuco; inand fuco, to paint.]

To stain; to paint; to daub.

Infumed

INFU'MED, adjective [Latin infumatus.] Dried in smoke.

Infundibuliform

INFUNDIB'ULIFORM, adjective [Latin infundibulum, a funnel, and form.]

In botany, having the shape of a funnel, as the corol of a flower; monopetalous, having a conical border rising from a tube.

Infuriate

INFU'RIATE, adjective [Latin in and furiatus, from furia, fury.]

Enraged; mad; raging.

INFU'RIATE, verb transitive To render furious or mad; to enrage.

Infuscate

INFUS'CATE, verb intransitive [Latin infuscatus, infusco, to make black; in and fusco, fuscus, dark.] To darken; to make black.

Infuscation

INFUSCA'TION, noun The act of darkening or blackening.

Infuse

INFU'SE, verb transitive s as z. [Latin infusus, infundo, to pour in; in and fundo, to pour.]

1. To pour in, as a liquid.

That strong Circean liquor cease t'infuse.

2. To instill, as principles or qualities.

Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed.

4. To introduce; as, to infuse Gallicisms into a composition.

5. To inspire with; as, to infuse the breast with magnanimity. [Not used.]

6. To steep in liquor without boiling, for the purpose of extracting medicinal qualities.

One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.

7. To make an infusion with an ingredient. [Not used.]

INFU'SE, noun Infusion.

Infused

INFU'SED, participle passive Poured in; instilled; steeped.

Infuser

INFU'SER, noun One who infuses.

Infusibility

INFUSIBIL'ITY, noun [from infusible.] The capacity of being infused or poured in.

1. The incapacity of being fused or dissolved.

Infusible

INFU'SIBLE, adjective [from the verb.] That may be infused. Good principles are infusible into the minds of youth.

INFU'SIBLE, adjective [in, not, and fusible, from fuse.] Not fusible; incapable of fusion; that cannot be dissolved or melted.

The best crucibles are made of Limoges earth, which seems absolutely infusible

Infusing

INFU'SING, participle present tense Pouring in; instilling; steeping.

Infusion

INFU'SION, noun s as z. The act of pouring in or instilling; instillation; as the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal.

1. Suggestion; whisper.

His folly and his wisdom are of his own growth, not the echo on infusion of other men.

2. In pharmacy, the process of steeping in liquor, an operation by which the medicinal qualities of plants may be extracted by a liquor without boiling.

3. The liquor in which plants are steeped, and which is impregnated with their virtues or qualities.

Infusive

INFU'SIVE, adjective Having the power of infusion.

Infusory

INFU'SORY, adjective The infusory order of worms. [vermes] comprehends those minute and simple animalcules which are seldom capable of being traced except by the microscope.

Ing, in Saxon, signifies a pasture or meadow.

Ingannation

INGANNA'TION, noun Cheat; fraud. [Not used.]

Ingate

IN'GATE, noun [in and gate.] Entrance; passage in.

Ingathering

INGATH'ERING, noun [in and gathering.] The act or business of collecting and securing the fruits of the earth; harvest; a the feast of ingathering Exodus 23:16.

Ingelable

INGEL'ABLE, adjective [in and gelable.] That cannot be congealed.

Ingeminate

INGEM'INATE, adjective [Latin ingeminatus.] Redoubled.

INGEM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin ingemino; in and gemino.]

To double or repeat.

Ingemination

INGEMINA'TION, noun Repetition; reduplication.

Ingender

INGENDER. [See Engender.]

Ingenerability

INGENERABIL'ITY, noun [infra.] Incapacity of being engendered.

Ingenerable

INGEN'ERABLE, adjective [in and generate.]

That cannot be engendered or produced.

Ingenerate

INGEN'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin ingenero; in and genero, to generate.]

To generate or produce within.

INGEN'ERATE, adjective Generated within; inborn; innate; inbred; as ingenerate powers of body.

Ingenerated

INGEN'ERATED, participle passive Produced within.

Noble habits ingenerated in the soul.

Ingenerating

INGEN'ERATING, participle present tense Generating or producing within.

Ingenious

INGE'NIOUS, adjective [Latin ingeniosus, from ingenium; in and genius, geno, gigno, to beget.

1. Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; hence, skillful or prompt to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations of ideas; as an ingenious author; an ingenious mechanic.

The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to trouble themselves.

2. Proceeding from genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure or mechanism; as an ingenious performance of any kind; an ingenious scheme or plan; an ingenious model or machine; ingenious fabric; ingenious contrivance.

3. Witty; well formed; well adapted; as an ingenious reply.

4. Mental; intellectual. [Not used.]

Ingeniously

INGE'NIOUSLY, adverb With ingenuity; with readiness in contrivance; with skill.

Ingeniousness

INGE'NIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being ingenious or prompt in invention; ingenuity; used of persons.

1. Curiousness of design or mechanism; used of things.

Ingenite

INGEN'ITE, adjective [Latin ingenitus; in and genitus, born.]

Innate; inborn; inbred; native; ingenerate.

Ingenuity

INGENU'ITY, noun The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in combining ideas, or in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill; used of persons. How many machines for saving labor has the ingenuity of men devised and constructed.

1. Curiousness in design, the effect of ingenuity; as the ingenuity of a plan or of mechanism.

2. Openness of heart; fairness; candor. [This sense of the word was formerly common, and is found in good authors down to the age of Locke, and even later; but it is now wholly obsolete. In lieu of it, ingenousness is used.]

Ingenuous

INGEN'UOUS, adjective [Latin ingenuus.] Open; frank; fair; candid; free from reserve, disguise, equivocation or dissimulation; used of persons or things. We speak of an ingenuous mind; an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration or confession.

1. Noble; generous; as an ingenuous ardor or zeal; ingenuous detestation of falsehood.

2. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; as ingenuous blood or birth.

Ingenuously

INGEN'UOUSLY, adverb Openly; fairly; candidly; without reserve or dissimulation.

Ingenuousness

INGEN'UOUSNESS, noun Openness of heart; frankness; fairness; freedom from reserve or dissimulation; as, to confess our faults with ingenuousness

1. Fairness; candidness; as the ingenuousness of a confession.

Ingeny

IN'GENY, noun Wit; ingenuity.

Ingest

INGEST', verb transitive [Latin ingestus, from ingero; in and gero, to bear.]

To throw into the stomach. [Little used.]

Ingestion

INGES'TION, noun The act or throwing into the stomach; as the ingestion of milk or other food.

Ingle

IN'GLE, noun [Latin igniculus, ignis.] Flame; blaze. [Not in use.]

1. In Scottish, a fire, or fireplace.

Inglorious

INGLO'RIOUS, adjective [Latin inglorius; in and gloria.]

1. Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame or celebrity; as an inglorious life of ease.

2. Shameful; disgraceful. He charged his troops with inglorious flight.

Ingloriously

INGLO'RIOUSLY, adverb With want of glory; dishonorably; with shame.

Ingot

IN'GOT, noun A mass or wedge of gold or silver cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought metal.

Ingraft

INGR'AFT, verb transitive [in and graff. The original word is ingraff or graff, but it is corrupted beyond recovery.]

1. To insert a cion of one tree or plant into another for propagation; as, to ingraft the cion of an apple-tree on a pear-tree, as its stock; to ingraft a peach on a plum.

2. To propagate by incision.

3. To plant or introduce something foreign into that which is native, for the purpose of propagation.

This fellow would ingraft a foreign name

Upon our stock.

4. To set or fix deep and firm.

Ingrafted love he bears to Caesar.

Ingrafted

INGR'AFTED, participle passive Inserted into a stock for growth and propagation; introduced into a native stock; set or fixed deep.

Ingrafting

INGR'AFTING, participle present tense Inserting, as cions in stocks; introducing and inserting on a native stock what is foreign; fixing deep.

Ingraftment

INGR'AFTMENT, noun The act of ingrafting.

1. The thing ingrafted.

Ingrain

IN'GRAIN, verb transitive [in and grain.] To dye in the grain, or before manufacture.

Ingrained

IN'GRAINED, participle passive Dyed in the grain or in the raw material; as ingrained carpets.

Ingraining

IN'GRAINING, participle present tense Dyeing in the raw material.

Ingrappled

INGRAP'PLED, adjective Grappled; seized on; entwined.

Ingrate

IN'GRATE

INGRA'TEFUL, adjective [Latin ingratus; in and gratus.]

1. Ungrateful; unthankful; not having feelings of kindness for a favor received.

2. Unpleasing to the sense.

He gives no ingrateful food.

IN'GRATE, noun An ungrateful person.

Ingrateful

INGRA'TEFUL, a. [L. ingratus; in and gratus.] 1. Ungrateful; unthankful; not having feelings of kindness for a favor received.2. Unpleasing to the sense. He gives no ingrateful food.

Ingratefully

INGRA'TEFULLY, adverb Ungratefully.

Ingratefulness

INGRA'TEFULNESS, noun Ungratefulness.

Ingratiate

INGRA'TIATE, verb transitive ingra'shate. [Latin in and gratia, favor.]

1. To commend one's self to another's good will, confidence or kindness. It is always used as a reciprocal verb, and followed by with, before the person whose favor is sought. Ministers and courtiers ingratiate themselves with their sovereign. Demagogues ingratiate themselves with the populace.

2. To recommend; to render easy; used of things.

Ingratiating

INGRA'TIATING, participle present tense Commending one's self to the favor of another.

INGRA'TIATING, noun The act of commending one's self to another's favor.

Ingratitude

INGRAT'ITUDE, noun

1. Want of gratitude or sentiments of kindness for favors received; insensibility to favors, and want of a disposition to repay them; unthankfulness.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

No man will own himself guilty of ingratitude

2. Retribution of evil for good.

Nor was it with ingratitude returned.

Ingrave

INGRA'VE, verb transitive To bury. [Not used.]

Ingravidate

INGRAV'IDATE, verb transitive [Latin gravidus.] To impregnate.

Ingreat

INGREAT, verb transitive To make great. [Not in use.]

Ingredient

INGRE'DIENT, noun [Latin ingrediens, entering into; ingredior; in and gradior. See Grade.]

That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any compound or mixture. It is particularly applied to the simples in medicinal compositions, but admits of a very general application. We say, an ointment or a decoction is composed of certain ingredients; and Addison wondered that learning was not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune.

Ingress

IN'GRESS, noun [Latin ingerssus, ingredior, supra.]

1. Entrance; as the ingress of air into the lungs. It is particularly applied to the entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.

2. Power of entrance; means of entering. All ingress was prohibited.

Ingression

INGRES'SION, noun [Latin ingressio, ingredior.]

The act of entering; entrance.

Inguinal

IN'GUINAL, adjective [Latin inguen, the groin.]

Pertaining to the grain; as an inguinal tumor.

Ingulf

INGULF', verb transitive [in and gulf.] To swallow up in a vast deep, gulf or whirlpool.

1. To cast into a gulf.

Ingulfed

INGULF'ED, participle passive Swallowed up in a gulf or vast deep; cast into a gulf.

Ingulfing

INGULF'ING, participle present tense Swallowing up in a gulf, whirlpool or vast deep.

Ingurgitate

INGUR'GITATE, verb transitive [Latin ingurgito; in and gurges, a gulf.]

To swallow greedily or in great quantity.

INGUR'GITATE, verb intransitive To drink largely; to swill.

Ingurgitation

INGURGITA'TION, noun The act of swallowing greedily, or in great quantity.

Ingustable

INGUST'ABLE, adjective [Latin in and gusto, to taste.]

That cannot be tasted. [Little used.]

Inhabile

INHAB'ILE, adjective [Latin inhabilis; in and habilis, apt, fit.]

1. Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; as inhabile matter.

2. Unskilled; unready; unqualified; used of persons. [Little used. See Unable.]

Inhability

INHABIL'ITY, noun [from inhabile.] Unaptness; unfitness; want of skill. [Little used. See Inability.]

Inhabit

INHAB'IT, verb transitive [Latin inhabito; in and habito, to dwell.]

To live or dwell in; to occupy as a place of settled residence. Wild beasts inhabit the forest; fishes inhabit the ocean, lakes and rivers; men inhabit cities and houses.

Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity--Isaiah 57:15.

INHAB'IT, verb intransitive To dwell; to live; to abide.

They say wild beasts inhabit here.

Inhabitable

INHAB'ITABLE, adjective [from inhabit.] Habitable; that may be inhabited; capable of affording habitation to animals. The stars may be inhabitable worlds. Some regions of the earth are not inhabitable by reason of cold or sterility. A building may be too old and decayed to be inhabitable

1. Not habitable. [Latin inhabitabilis.] [Not in use.]

Inhabitance

INHAB'ITANCE, noun Residence of dwellers. [Little used.]

Inhabitancy

INHAB'ITANCY, noun Residence; habitancy; permanent or legal residence in a town, city or parish; or the domiciliation which the law required to entitle a pauper to demand support from the town, city or parish in which he lives, otherwise called a legal settlement, which subjects a town to support a person, if a pauper.

Inhabitant

INHAB'ITANT, noun A dweller; one who dwells or resides permanently in a place, or who has a fixed residence, as distinguished from an occasional lodger or visitor; as the inhabitant of a house or cottage; the inhabitants of a town, city, county or state. So brute animals are inhabitants of the regions to which their natures are adapted; and we speak of spiritual beings, as inhabitants of heaven.

1. One who has a legal settlement in a town, city or parish. The conditions or qualifications which constitute a person an inhabitant of a town or parish, so as to subject the town or parish to support him, if a pauper, are defined by the statutes of different governments or states.

Inhabitation

INHABITA'TION, noun The act of inhabiting, or state of being inhabited.

1. Abode; place of dwelling.

2. Population; whole mass of inhabitants.

[This word is little use.]

Inhabited

INHAB'ITED, participle passive Occupied by inhabitants, human or irrational.

Inhabiter

INHAB'ITER, noun One who inhabits; a dweller; an inhabitant.

Inhabiting

INHAB'ITING, participle present tense Dwelling in; occupying as a settled or permanent inhabitant; residing in.

Inhabitress

INHAB'ITRESS, noun A female inhabitant.

Inhale

INHA'LE, verb transitive [Latin inhalo; in and halo, to breathe.]

To draw into the lungs; to inspire; as, to inhale air; opposed to exhale and expire.

Martin was walking forth to inhale the fresh breeze of the evening.

Inhaled

INHA'LED, participle passive Drawn into the lungs.

Inhaler

INHA'LER, noun One who inhales.

1. In medicine, a machine for breathing or drawing warm steam into the lungs, as a remedy for coughs and catarrhal complaints.

Inhaling

INHA'LING, participle present tense Drawing into the lungs; breathing.

Inharmonic

INHARMON'IC

INHARMON'ICAL, adjective Unharmonious; discordant.

Inharmonical

INHARMON'ICAL, a. Unharmonious; discordant.

Inharmonious

INHARMO'NIOUS, adjective [in and harmonious.]

Not harmonious; unmusical; discordant.

Inharmoniously

INHARMO'NIOUSLY, adverb Without harmony; discordantly.

Inhere

INHE'RE, verb intransitive [Latin inhoereo; in and hoereo, to hang.]

To exist or be fixed in something else; as, colors inhere in cloth; a dart inheres in the flesh.

Inherence

INHE'RENCE, noun Existence in something; a fixed state of being in another body or substance.

Inherent

INHE'RENT, adjective Existing in something else, so as to be inseparable from it.

Inherent baseness.

1. Innate; naturally pertaining to; as the inherent qualities of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty and protection.

Inherently

INHE'RENTLY, adverb By inherence.

Inhering

INHE'RING, participle present tense Existing or fixed in something else.

Inherit

INHER'IT, verb transitive [Latin hoeres, an heir. See Heir.]

1. To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by succession, as the representative of the former possessor; to receive, as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease. The heir inherits the lands or real estate of his father; the eldest son of the nobleman inherits his father's title, and the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.

2. To receive by nature from a progenitor. The son inherits the virtues of his father; the daughter inherits the temper of her mother, and children often inherit the constitutional infirmities of their parents.

3. To possess; to enjoy; to take as a possession, by gift or divine appropriation; as, to inherit everlasting life; to inherit the promises.

--That thou mayest live, and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. Deuteronomy 16:20.

The meek shall inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5.

INHER'IT, verb intransitive To take or have possession or property.

--Thou shall not inherit in our father's house.

Judges 11:2.

Inheritable

INHER'ITABLE, adjective That may be inherited; transmissible or descendible from the ancestor to the heir by course of law; as an inheritable estate or title.

1. That may be transmitted from the parent to the child; as inheritable qualities or infirmities.

2. Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent.

By attainder--the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable

Inheritably

INHER'ITABLY, adverb By inheritance.

Inheritance

INHER'ITANCE, noun An estate derived from an ancestor to an heir by succession or in course of law; or an estate which the law casts on a child or other person, as the representative of the deceased ancestor.

1. The reception of an estate by hereditary right, or the descent by which an estate or title is cast on the heir; as, the heir received the estate by inheritance

2. The estate or possession which may descend to an heir, though it has not descended.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said, is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? Genesis 31:14.

3. An estate given or possessed by donation or divine appropriation. Numbers 26:53.

4. That which is possessed or enjoyed.

Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance Psalms 2:8.

Inherited

INHER'ITED, participle passive Received by descent from an ancestor; possessed.

Inheriting

INHER'ITING, participle present tense Taking by succession or right of representation; receiving from ancestors; possessing.

Inheritor

INHER'ITOR, noun An heir; one who inherits or may inherit.

Inheritress

INHER'ITRESS

INHER'ITRIX , noun An heiress; a female who inherits or is entitled to inherit, after the death of her ancestor.

Inheritrix

INHER'ITRIX , n. An heiress; a female who inherits or is entitled to inherit, after the death of her ancestor.

Inherse

INHERSE, verb transitive inhers.'. [in and herse.]

To inclose in a funeral monument.

Inhesion

INHE'SION, noun s as z. [Latin inhoesio, inhoereo.]

Inherence; the state of existing or being fixed in something.

Inhiation

INHIA'TION, noun [Latin inhiatio.] A gaping after; eager desire. [Not used.]

Inhibit

INHIB'IT, verb transitive [Latin inhibeo; in and habeo, to hold, properly to rush or drive.]

1. To restrain; to hinder; to check or repress.

Their motions also are excited or inhibited--by the objects without them.

2. To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.

All men were inhibited by proclamation at the dissolution so much as to mention a parliament.

Inhibited

INHIB'ITED, participle passive Restrained; forbid.

Inhibiting

INHIB'ITING, participle present tense Restraining; repressing; prohibiting.

Inhibition

INHIBI'TION, noun [Latin inhibitio.]

1. Prohibition; restraint; embargo.

2. In law, a writ to forbid or inhibit a judge from farther

proceedings in a cause depending before him; commonly, a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.

Inhold

INHOLD, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive inheld. [in and hold.]

To have inherent; to contain in itself. [Little used.]

Inholder

INHOLDER, noun An inhabitant.

Inhoop

INHOOP', verb transitive [in and hoop.] To confine or inclose in any place.

Inhospitable

INHOS'PITABLE, adjective [in and hospitable.]

1. Not hospitable; not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously; declining to entertain guests, or entertaining them with reluctance; as an inhospitable person or people.

2. Affording no conveniences, subsistence or shelter to strangers; as inhospitable desserts or rocks.

Inhospitableness

INHOS'PITABLENESS

INHOS'PITABLY, adverb Unkindly to strangers.

Inhospitably

INHOS'PITABLY, adv. Unkindly to strangers.

Inhospitality

INHOSPITAL'ITY , noun Want of hospitality or kindness to strangers; refusal or unwillingness to entertain guests or strangers without reward.

Inhuman

INHU'MAN, adjective [Latin inhumanus; in and humanus, humane.]

1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as an inhuman person or people.

2. Marked with cruelty; as an inhuman act.

Inhumanity

INHUMAN'ITY, noun Cruelty in disposition; savageness of heart; used of persons.

1. Cruelty in act; barbarity; used of actions.

Inhumanly

INHU'MANLY, adverb With cruelty; barbarously.

Inhumate

INHU'MATE

INHUMA'TION, noun The act of burying; interment.

1. In chimistry, a method of digesting substances by burying the vessel containing them in warm earth, or a like substance.

Inhume

INHU'ME , verb transitive [Latin inhumo, humo, to bury.]

1. To bury; to inter; to deposit in the earth, as a dead body.

2. To digest in a vessel surrounded with warm earth.

Inhumed

INHU'MED, participle passive Buried; interred.

Inhuming

INHU'MING, participle present tense Burying; interring.

Inimaginable

INIMAG'INABLE, adjective Unimaginable; inconceivable.

Inimical

INIM'ICAL, adjective [Latin inimiens; in and amicus, a friend.]

1. Unfriendly; having the disposition or temper of an enemy; applied to private enmity, as hostile is to public.

2. Adverse; hurtful; repugnant.

--Savage violences inimical to commerce.

Inimitability

INIMITABIL'ITY, noun [from inimitable.] The quality of being incapable of imitation.

Inimitable

INIM'ITABLE, adjective [Latin inimitabilis; in and imitabilis, from imitor, to imitate.] That cannot be imitated or copied; surpassing imitation; as inimitable beauty or excellence; an inimitable description; inimitable eloquence.

Inimitably

INIM'ITABLY, adverb In a manner not to be imitated; to a degree beyond imitation.

Charms such as thine, inimitably great.

Iniquitous

INIQ'UITOUS, adjective [See Iniquity.] Unjust; wicked; as an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding. [It is applied to things rather than to persons, but may be applied to persons.]

Iniquity

INIQ'UITY, noun [Latin iniquitas; in and oequitas, equity.]

1. Injustice; unrighteousness; a deviation from rectitude; as the iniquity of war; the iniquity of the slave trade.

2. Want of rectitude in principle; as a malicious prosecution originating in the iniquity of the author.

3. A particular deviation from rectitude; a sin or crime; wickedness; any act of injustice.

Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. Isaiah 59:2.

4. Original want of holiness or depravity.

I was shapen in iniquity Psalms 51:5.

Inirritability

INIRRITABIL'ITY, noun [in and irritability.] The quality of being inirritable, or not susceptible of contraction by excitement.

Inirritable

INIR'RITABLE, adjective [in and irritable.] Not irritable; not susceptible of irritation, or contraction by excitement.

Inirritative

INIR'RITATIVE, adjective Not accompanied with excitement; as an inirritative fever.

Inisle

INISLE, verb transitive ini'le. [in and isle.] To surround; to encircle. [Not in use.]

Initaited

INI'TAITED, participle passive Instructed in the first principles; entered.

Initial

INI'TIAL, adjective [Latin initialis, initium, beginning.]

1. Beginning; placed at the beginning; as the initial letters of a name.

2. Beginning; incipient; as the initial symptoms of a disease.

INI'TIAL, noun The first letter of a name.

Initially

INI'TIALLY, adverb In an incipient degree.

Initiate

INI'TIATE, verb transitive [Low Latin initio, to enter or begin, from initum, ineo, to enter; in and eo, to go.]

1. To instruct in rudiments or principles; or to introduce into any society or sect by instructing the candidate in its

principles or ceremonies; as, to initiate a person into the mysteries of Ceres.

2. To introduce into a new state or society; as, to initiate one into a club.

3. To instruct; to acquaint with; as, to initiate one in the higher branches of mathematics.

4. To begin upon.

INI'TIATE, verb intransitive To do the first act; to perform the first rite.

INI'TIATE, adjective Unpracticed.

1. Begun; commenced. A tenant by the curtesy initiate becomes so by the birth of a child, but his estate is not consummate till the death of the wife.

INI'TIATE, noun One who is initiated.

Initiating

INI'TIATING, participle present tense Introducing by instruction, or by appropriate ceremonies.

Initiation

INITIA'TION, noun [Latin initiatio.] The act or process of introducing one into a new society, by instructing him in its principles, rules or ceremonies; as, too initiate a person into a christian community.

1. The act or process of making one acquainted with principles before unknown.

2. Admission by application of ceremonies or use of symbols; as, to initiate one into the visible church by baptism.

Initiatory

INI'TIATORY, adjective Initiating or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies.

Two initiatory rites of the same general import cannot exist together.

INI'TIATORY, noun [supra.] Introductory rite.

Inject

INJECT', verb transitive [Latin injectus, injicio; in and jacio, to throw.]

1. To throw in; to dart in; as, to inject any thing into the mouth or stomach.

2. To cast or throw on.

--And mound inject on mound.

Injected

INJECT'ED, participle passive Thrown in or on.

Injecting

INJECT'ING, participle present tense Throwing in or on.

Injection

INJECT'ION, noun [Latin injectio.] The act of throwing in, particularly that of throwing a liquid medicine into the body by a syringe or pipe.

1. A liquid medicine thrown into the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster.

2. In anatomy, the act of filling the vessels of an animal body with some colored substance, in order to render visible their figures and ramifications.

Injoin

INJOIN. [See Enjoin.]

Injucundity

INJUCUND'ITY, noun [Latin injucunditas.] Unpleasantness; disagreeableness. [Little used.]

Injudicable

INJU'DICABLE, adjective Not cognizable by a judge. [Little used.]

Injudicial

INJUDI'CIAL, adjective Not according to the forms of law.

Injudicious

INJUDI'CIOUS, adjective [in and judicious.] Not judicious; void of judgment; acting without judgment; unwise; as an injudicious person.

1. Not according to sound judgment or discretion; unwise; as an injudicious measure.

Injudiciously

INJUDI'CIOUSLY, adverb Without judgment; unwisely.

Injudiciousness

INJUDI'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being injudicious or unwise.

Injunction

INJUNC'TION, noun [Latin injunctio, from injungo, to enjoin; in and jungo, to join.]

1. A command; order; precept; the direction of a superior vested with authority.

For still they knew, and ought t'have still remembered

The high injunction not to taste that fruit.

2. Urgent advice or exhortation of persons not vested with absolute authority to command.

3. In law, a writ or order of the court of chancery, directed to an inferior court, or to parties and their counsel, directing them to stay proceedings, or to do some act, as to put the plaintiff in possession for want of the defendant's appearance, to stay waste or other injury, etc. When the reason for granting an injunction ceases, the injunction is dissolved.

Injure

IN'JURE, verb transitive [Latin injuria, injury.]

1. To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health.

2. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate.

3. To slander, tarnish or impair, as reputation or character.

4. To impair or diminish; to annoy; as happiness.

5. To give pain to; to grieve; as sensibility or feelings.

7. To hurt or weaken; as, to injure a good cause.

8. To impair; to violate; as, to injure rights.

9. To make worse; as, great rains injure the roads.

10. In general, to wrong the person, to damage the property, or to lessen the happiness of ourselves or others. A man injures his person by wounds, his estate by negligence or extravagance, and his happiness by vices. He injures his neighbor by violence to his person, by fraud, by calumny, and by non-fulfillment of his contracts.

Injured

IN'JURED, participle passive Hurt; wounded; damaged; impaired; weakened; made worse.

Injurer

IN'JURER, noun One who injures or wrongs.

Injuring

IN'JURING, participle present tense Hurting; damaging; impairing; weakening; rendering worse.

Injurious

INJU'RIOUS, adjective [Latin injurius.]

1. Wrongful; unjust; hurtful to the rights of another. That which impairs rights or prevents the enjoyment of them, is injurious

2. Hurtful to the person or health. Violence is injurious to the person, as intemperance is to the health.

3. Affecting with damage or loss. Indolence is injurious to property.

4. Mischievous; hurtful; as the injurious consequences of sin or folly.

5. Lessening or tarnishing reputation. The very suspicion of cowardice is injurious to a soldier's character.

6. Detractory; contumelious; hurting reputation; as, obscure hints as well as open detraction, are sometimes injurious to reputation.

7. In general, whatever gives pain to the body or mind, whatever impairs or destroys property or rights, whatever tarnishes reputation, whatever disturbs happiness, whatever retards prosperity or defeats the success of a good cause, is deemed injurious

Injuriously

INJU'RIOUSLY, adverb Wrongfully; hurtfully; with injustice; mischievously.

Injuriousness

INJU'RIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being injurious or hurtful; injury.

Injury

IN'JURY, noun [Latin injuria; in and jus, juris, right.]

1. In general, any wrong or damage done to a man's person, rights, reputation or goods. That which impairs the soundness of the body or health, or gives pain, is an injury That which impairs the mental faculties, is an injury These injuries may be received by a fall or by other violence. Trespass, fraud, and non-fulfillment of covenants and contracts are injuries to rights. Slander is an injury to reputation, and so is cowardice and vice. Whatever impairs the quality or diminishes the value of goods or property, is an injury We may receive injury by misfortune as well as by injustice.

2. Mischief; detriment.

Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments.

3. Any diminution of that which is good, valuable or advantageous.

Injustice

INJUS'TICE, noun [Latin injustitia; in and justitia, justice.]

1. Iniquity; wrong; any violation of another's rights, as fraud in contracts, or the withholding of what is due. It has a particular reference to an unequal distribution of rights, property or privileges among persons who have equal claims.

2. The withholding from another merited praise, or ascribing to him unmerited blame.

Ink

INK, noun A black liquor or substance used for writing, generally made of an infusion of galls, copperas and gum-arabic.

1. Any liquor used for writing or forming letters, as red ink etc.

2. A pigment.

Printing ink is made by boiling lintseed oil, and burning it about a minute, and mixing it with lampblack, with an addition of soap and rosin.

INK for the rolling press, is made with lintseed oil burnt as above, and mixed with Frankfort black.

Indian ink from China, is composed of lampblack, and size or animal glue.

Sympathetic ink a liquor used in writing, which exhibits no color or appearance till some other means are used, such as holding it to the fire, or rubbing something over it.

INK, verb transitive To black or daub with ink

Inkhorn

INK'HORN, noun [ink and horn; horns being formerly used for holding ink.]

1. A small vessel used to hold ink on a writing table or desk, or for carrying it about the person. Inkhorns are made of horn, glass or stone.

2. A portable case for the instruments of writing.

Inkiness

INK'INESS, noun [from inky.] The state or quality of being inky.

Inkle

INK'LE, noun A kind or narrow fillet; tape.

Inkling

INK'LING, noun A hint or whisper; an intimation. [Little used.]

Inkmaker

INK'MAKER, noun One whose occupation is to make ink.

Inknot

INKNOT, verb transitive innot'. [in and knot.] To bind as with a knot.

Inkstand

INK'STAND, noun A vessel for holding ink and other writing utensils.

INK'-STONE, noun A kind of small round stone of a white, red, gray, yellow or black color, containing a quantity of native vitriol or sulphate of iron; used in making ink.

Inky

INK'Y, adjective Consisting of ink; resembling ink; black.

1. Tarnished or blackened with ink.

Inlace

INLA'CE, verb transitive [in and lace.] To embellish with variegations.

Inlaid

INLA'ID, participle passive of inlay, which see.

Inland

IN'LAND, adjective [in and land.] Interior; remote from the sea. Worcester in Massachusetts, and Lancaster in Pennsylvania, are large inland towns.

1. Within land; remote from the ocean; as an inland lake or sea.

2. Carried on within a country; domestic, not foreign; as inland trade or transportation; inland navigation.

3. Confined to a country; drawn and payable in the same country; as an inland bill of exchange, distinguished from a foreign bill, which is drawn in one country on a person living in another.

IN'LAND, noun The interior part of a country.

Inlander

IN'LANDER, noun One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea.

Inlandish

INLAND'ISH, adjective Denoting something inland; native.

Inlapidate

INLAP'IDATE, verb transitive [in and lapido, lapis, a stone.]

To convert into a stony substance; to petrify. [Little used.]

Inlaw

INLAW', verb transitive To clear of outlawry or attainder.

Inlay

INLA'Y, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive inlaid. [in and lay.]

To veneer; to diversify cabinet or other work by laying in and fastening with glue, thin slices or leaves of fine wood, on a ground of common wood. This is used in making compartments.

IN'LAY, noun Matter or pieces of wood inlaid, or prepared for inlaying.

Inlayer

INLA'YER, noun The person who inlays or whose occupation it is to inlay.

Inlaying

INLA'YING, participle present tense The operation of diversifying or ornamenting work with thin pieces of wood, set in a ground of other wood.

Inlet

IN'LET, noun [in and let.] A passage or opening by which an inclosed place may be entered; place of ingress; entrance. Thus, a window is an inlet for light into a house; the senses are the inlets of ideas or perceptions into the mind.

1. A bay or recess in the shore of the sea or of a lake or large river, or between isles.

In limine, [Latin] at the threshold; at the beginning or outset.

Inlist

INLIST', verb intransitive [in and list.] To enter into military service by signing articles and receiving a sum of money. [See List.]

INLIST', verb transitive To engage or procure to enter into military service. [See Enlist, a common spelling, but inlist is preferable.]

Inlisted

INLIST'ED, participle passive Engaged in military service, as a soldier.

Inlisting

INLIST'ING, participle present tense Entering or engaging in military service.

Inlistment

INLIST'MENT, noun The act of inlisting.

These inlistments were for one year only.

1. The writing containing the terms of military service, and a list of names of those who enter into the service.

Inlock

INLOCK', verb transitive To lock or inclose one thing within another.

Inly

IN'LY, adjective [in and like.] Internal; interior; secret.

IN'LY, adverb Internally; within; in the heart; secretly; as, to be inly pleased or grieved.

Inmate

IN'MATE, noun [in or inn, and mate.] A person who lodges or dwells in the same house with another, occupying different rooms, but using the same door for passing in and out of the house.

1. A lodger; one who lives with a family, but is not otherwise connected with it than as a lodger.

IN'MATE, adjective Admitted as a dweller.

Inmost

IN'MOST, adjective [in and most.] Deepest within; remotest from the surface or external part.

The silent, slow, consuming fires

Which on my inmost vitals prey.

I got into the inmost court.

Inn

INN, noun [Heb. To dwell or to pitch a tent.]

1. A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers. In America, it is often a tavern, where liquors are furnished for travelers and others.

There was no room for them in the inn Luke 2:7.

2. In England, a college of municipal or common law professors and students; formerly, the town-house of a nobleman, bishop or other distinguished personage, in which he resided when he attended the court.

INNs of court, colleges in which students of law reside and are instructed. The principal are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's inn and Gray's inn

INNs of chancery, colleges in which young students formerly began their law studies. These are now occupied chiefly by attorneys, solicitors, etc.

Innate

IN'NATE, adjective [Latin innatus, from innascor; in and nascor, to be born.]

Inborn; native; natural. innate ideas are such as are supposed to be stamped on the mind, at the moment when existence begins. Mr. Locke has taken great pains to prove that no such ideas exist.

Innated

INNATED, for innate, is not used.

Innately

IN'NATELY, adverb Naturally.

Innateness

IN'NATENESS, noun The quality of being innate.

Innavigable

INNAV'IGABLE, adjective [Latin innavigabilis; in and navigabilis. See Navigate.] That cannot be navigated; impassable by ships or vessels.

Inner

IN'NER, adjective [from in.] Interior; farther inward than something else, as an inner chamber; the inner court of a temple or palace.

1. Interior; internal; not outward; as the inner man. Ephesians 3:16.

Innerly

IN'NERLY, adverb More within.

Innermost

IN'NERMOST, adjective Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part. Proverbs 18:8.

Innerve

INNERVE, verb transitive innerv'. [in and nerve.] To give nerve to; to invigorate; to strengthen.

Innholder

INN'HOLDER, noun [inn and hold.] A person who keeps an inn or house for the entertainment of travelers; also, a taverner.

1. An inhabitant.

Inning

IN'NING, noun The ingathering of grain.

1. A term in cricket, a turn for using the bat.

Innings

INN'INGS, noun Lands recovered from the sea.

Innkeeper

INN'KEEPER, noun [inn and keep.] An innholder. In America, the innkeeper is often a tavern keeper or taverner, as well as an innkeeper the inn for furnishing lodgings and provisions being usually united with the tavern for the sale of liquors.

INN, verb intransitive To take up lodging; to lodge.

INN, verb transitive To house; to put under cover.

Innocence

IN'NOCENCE

IN'NOCENCY, noun [Latin innocentia; in and noceo, to hurt.]

1. Properly, freedom from any quality that can injure; innoxiousness; harmlessness; as the innocence of a medicine which can do no harm. In this sense, the noun is not obsolete, though less used than the adjective.

2. In a moral sense, freedom from crime, sin or guilt; untainted purity of heart and life; unimpaired integrity.

Enjoyment left nothing to ask--innocence left nothing to fear.

3. Freedom from guilt or evil intentions; simplicity of heart; as the innocence of a child.

4. Freedom from the guilt of a particular sin or crime. This is the sense in which the word is most generally used, for perfect innocence cannot be predicated of man. A man charged with theft or murder may prove his innocence

5. The state of being lawfully conveyed to a belligerent, or of not being contraband; as the innocence of a cargo, or of any merchandize.

Innocency

IN'NOCENCY, n. [L. innocentia; in and noceo, to hurt.] 1. Properly, freedom from any quality that can injure; innoxiousness; harmlessness; as the innocence of a medicine which can do no harm. In this sense, the noun is not obsolete, though less used than the adjective.2. In a moral sense, freedom from crime, sin or guilt; untainted purity of heart and life; unimpaired integrity. Enjoyment left nothing to ask--innocence left nothing to fear.3. Freedom from guilt or evil intentions; simplicity of heart; as the innocence of a child.4. Freedom from the guilt of a particular sin or crime. This is the sense in which the word is most generally used, for perfect innocence cannot be predicated of man. A man charged with theft or murder may prove his innocence.5. The state of being lawfully conveyed to a belligerent, or of not being contraband; as the innocence of a cargo, or of any merchandize.