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Innocent

IN'NOCENT, adjective [Latin innocens.]

1. Properly, not noxious; not producing injury; free from qualities that can injure; harmless; innoxious; as an innocent medicine or remedy.

2. Free from guilt; not having done wrong or violated any law; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. In this general sense, no human being that is a moral agent, can be innocent It is followed by of.

3. Free from the guilt of a particular crime or evil action; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged in the indictment.

4. Lawful; permitted; as an innocent trade.

5. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.

IN'NOCENT, noun One free from guilt or harm.

1. A natural; an idiot. [Unusual.]

Innocently

IN'NOCENTLY, adverb Without harm; without incurring guilt.

1. With simplicity; without evil design.

2. Without incurring a forfeiture or penalty; as goods innocently imported.

Innocuous

INNOC'UOUS, adjective [Latin innocuus; in and noceo, to hurt.]

Harmless; safe; producing no ill effect; innocent. Certain poisons used as medicines in small quantities, prove not only innocuous but beneficial. It applied only to things; not to persons.

Innocuously

INNOC'UOUSLY, adverb Without harm; without injurious effects.

Innocuousness

INNOC'UOUSNESS, noun Harmlessness; the quality of being destitute of mischievous qualities or effects.

Innominable

INNOM'INABLE, adjective Not to be named.

Innominate

INNOM'INATE, adjective Having no name; anonymous.

Innovate

IN'NOVATE, verb transitive [Latin innovo; in and novo, to make new, novus, new.]

1. To change or alter by introducing something new.

From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.

2. To bring in something new.

IN'NOVATE, verb intransitive To introduce novelties; to make changes in any thing established; with on. It is often dangerous to innovate on the customs of a nation.

Innovated

IN'NOVATED, participle passive Changed by the introduction of something new.

Innovating

IN'NOVATING, participle present tense Introducing novelties.

Innovation

INNOVA'TION, noun [from innovate.] Change made by the introduction of something new; change in established laws, customs, rites or practices. innovation is expedient, when it remedies an evil, and safe, when men are prepared to receive it. innovation is often used in an ill sense, for a change that disturbs settled opinions and practices without an equivalent advantage.

Innovator

IN'NOVATOR, noun An introducer of changes.

Time is the greatest innovator

1. One who introduces novelties, or who makes changes by introducing something new.

Innoxious

INNOX'IOUS, adjective [Latin innoxius; in and noxius, noceo, to hurt.]

1. Free from mischievous qualities; innocent; harmless; as an innoxious drug.

2. Not producing evil; harmless in effects.

Innoxious flames are often seen on the hair of men's heads, and on horses' manes.

3. Free from crime; pure; innocent.

Innoxiously

INNOX'IOUSLY, adverb Harmlessly; without mischief.

1. Without harm suffered.

Innoxiousness

INNOX'IOUSNESS, noun Harmlessness.

The innoxiousness of the small pox.

Innuendo

INNUEND'O, noun [Latin from innuo, to nod; in and nuo.]

1. An oblique hint; a remote intimation or reference to a person or thing not named.

Mercury--owns it a marriage by innuendo

2. In law, a word used to point out the precise person.

Innuent

IN'NUENT, adjective [Latin innuens.] Significant.

Innumerability

INNUMERABIL'ITY

INNU'MERABLE, adjective [Latin innumerabilis. See Number.]

1. Not to be counted; that cannot be enumerated or numbered for multitude.

2. In a loose sense, very numerous.

Innumerable

INNU'MERABLE, a. [L. innumerabilis. See Number.] 1. Not to be counted; that cannot be enumerated or numbered for multitude.2. In a loose sense, very numerous.

Innumerableness

INNU'MERABLENESS, noun State of being innumerable.

Innumerably

INNU'MERABLY, adverb Without number.

Innumerous

INNU'MEROUS, adjective [Latin innumerus; in and numerus, number.]

Too many to be counted or numbered; innumerable.

Innutrition

INNUTRI'TION, noun [in and nutrition.] Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment.

Innutritious

INNUTRI'TIOUS, adjective [in and nutritious.] Not nutritious; not supplying nourishment; not nourishing.

Inobedient

INOBE'DIENT, adjective Not yielding obedience; neglecting to obey.

Inobservable

INOBSERV'ABLE, adjective [in and observable.]

That cannot be seen, perceived or observed.

Inobservance

INOBSERV'ANCE, noun Want of observance; neglect of observing; disobedience.

Inobservant

INOBSERV'ANT, adjective [in and observant.] Not taking notice.

Inobservation

INOBSERVA'TION, noun Neglect or want of observation.

Inoculate

INOC'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin inoculo; in and occulus, the eye.]

1. To bud; to insert the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant, for the purpose of growth on the new stock. All sorts of stone fruit, apples, pears, etc. may be inoculated. We inoculate the stock with a foreign bud.

2. To communicate a disease to a person by inserting infectious matter in his skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the matter of small pox or cow pox. When the latter disease is communicated, it is called vaccination.

INOC'ULATE, verb intransitive To propagate by budding; to practice inoculation. The time to inoculate is when the buds are formed at the extremities of the same year's shoot, indicating that the spring growth for that season is complete.

Inoculated

INOC'ULATED, participle passive Budded; as an inoculated stock.

1. Inserted in another stock, as a bud.

2. Infected by inoculation with a particular disease.

Inoculating

INOCULA'TING, participle present tense Budding; propagating by inserting a bud on another stock.

1. Infecting by inoculation.

Inoculation

INOCULA'TION, noun [Latin inoculatio.] The act or practice of inserting buds of one plant under the bark of another for propagation.

1. The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh. This practice is limited chiefly to the communication of the small pox, and of the cow pox, which is intended as a substitute for it. [See Vaccination.]

Inoculator

INOC'ULATOR, noun A person who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.

Inodiate

INO'DIATE, verb transitive [Latin in and odium.] To make hateful. [Not in use.]

Inodorate

INO'DORATE, adjective [Latin in and odoratus.] Having no scent or odor.

Inodorous

INO'DOROUS, adjective [Latin inodorus; in and odor.] Wanting scent; having no smell.

The white of an egg is an inodorous liquor.

Inoffensive

INOFFENS'IVE, adjective [in and offensive.]

1. Giving no offense or provocation; as an inoffensive man; an inoffensive answer.

2. Giving no uneasiness or disturbance; as an inoffensive appearance or sight.

3. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief.

Thy inoffensive satires never bite.

4. Not obstructing; presenting no hinderance.

--From hence a passage broad,

Smooth, easy, inoffensive down to hell.

Inoffensively

INOFFENS'IVELY, adverb Without giving offense; without harm; in a manner not to offend.

Inoffensiveness

INOFFENS'IVENESS, noun Harmlessness; the quality of being not offensive either to the senses or to the mind.

Inofficial

INOFFI'CIAL, adjective [in and official.] Not official; not proceeding from the proper officer; not clothed with the usual forms of authority, or not done in an official character; as an inofficial communication; inofficial intelligence.

Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business.

Inofficious

INOFFI'CIOUS, adjective [in and officious.]

1. Unkind; regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty.

--Suggesting that the parent had lost the use of his reason, when he made the inofficious testament.

Let not a father hope to excuse an inofficious disposition of his fortune, by alleging that every man may do what he will with his own.

2. Unfit for an office.

Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep.

3. Not civil or attentive.

Inoffiically

INOFFI'ICALLY, adverb Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.

Inoperation

INOPERA'TION, noun Agency; influence; production of effects. [Not used.]

Inoperative

INOP'ERATIVE, adjective [in and operative.] Not operative; not active; having no operation; producing no effect; as laws rendered inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies.

Inopportune

INOPPORTU'NE, adjective [Latin inopportunus. See Opportune.]

Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable in time.

Inopportunely

INOPPORTU'NELY, adverb Unseasonably; at an inconvenient time.

Inoppressive

INOPPRESS'IVE, adjective [in and oppressive.]

Not oppressive; not burdensome.

Inopulent

INOP'ULENT, adjective [in and opulent.] Not opulent; not wealthy; not affluent or rich.

Inordinacy

INOR'DINACY, noun [from inordinate.] Deviation from order or rule prescribed; irregularity; disorder; excess, or want of moderation; as the inordinacy of desire or other passion.

Inordinate

INOR'DINATE, adjective [Latin inordinatus; in and ordo, order.]

Irregular; disorderly; excessive; immoderate; not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; as an inordinate love of the world; inordinate desire of fame.

Inordinately

INOR'DINATELY, adverb Irregularly; excessively; immoderately.

Inordinateness

INOR'DINATENESS, noun Deviation from order; excess; want of moderation; inordinacy; intemperance in desire or other passion.

Inordination

INORDINA'TION, noun Irregularity; deviation from rule or right.

Inorganic

INORGAN'IC

INORGAN'ICAL, adjective [in and organic.] Devoid of organs; not formed with the organs or instruments of life; as the inorganic matter that forms the earth's surface.

Inorganic bodies, are such as have no organs, as minerals.

Inorganical

INORGAN'ICAL, a. [in and organic.] Devoid of organs; not formed with the organs or instruments of life; as the inorganic matter that forms the earth's surface.

Inorganic bodies, are such as have no organs, as minerals.

Inorganically

INORGAN'ICALLY, adverb Without organs.

Inorganized

INOR'GANIZED, adjective Not having organic structure; void of organs, as earths, metals, and other minerals.

Inosculate

INOS'CULATE, verb intransitive [Latin in and osculatus, from osculor, to kiss.]

In anatomy, to unite by apposition or contact; to unite, as two vessels at their extremities; as, one vein or artery inoculates with another; a vein inosculates with an artery.

INOS'CULATE, verb transitive To unite, as two vessels in an animal body.

Inosculating

INOS'CULATING, participle present tense Uniting, as the extremities of two vessels.

Inosculation

INOSCULA'TION, noun The union of two vessels of an animal body at their extremities, by means of which a communication is maintained, and the circulation of fluids is carried on; anastomosy.

Inpolitic

INPOL'ITIC, adjective Not wise; devising and pursuing measures adapted to injure the public interest; as an impolitic prince or minister.

1. Unwise; adapted to injure the public interest; as an impolitic law, measure or scheme.

2. Not wise in private concerns; pursuing measures ill suited to promote private welfare; not prudent.

3. Not suited to promote private interest.

Inquest

IN'QUEST, noun [Latin inquisitio, inquiro; in and quoero, to seek.]

1. Inquisition; judicial inquiry; official examination. An inquest of office, is an inquiry made by the king's officer, his sheriff, coroner, or escheator, concerning any matter that entitles the king to the possession of lands or tenements, goods or chattels. It is made by a jury of no determinate number.

In the United States, a similar inquiry, made by the proper officer, under the authority of a state.

2. A jury.

3. Inquiry; search.

Inquiet

INQUI'ET, verb transitive To disturb; to trouble. [Not used.]

Inquietation

INQUIETA'TION, noun Disturbance. [Not used.]

Inquietude

INQUI'ETUDE, noun [Latin inquietudo; in and quies, rest.]

Disturbed state; want of quiet; restlessness; uneasiness, either of body or mind; disquietude.

Inquinate

IN'QUINATE, verb transitive [Latin inquino, to defile; Gr. common.]

To defile; to pollute; to contaminate. [Little used.]

Inquination

INQUINA'TION, noun The act of defiling, or state of being defiled; pollution; corruption. [Little used.]

Inquirable

INQUI'RABLE, adjective [from inquire.] That may be inquired into; subject to inquisition or inquest.

Inquire

INQUI'RE, verb intransitive [Latin inquiro; in and quoero, to seek.]

1. To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by asking questions.

We will call the damsel and inquire at her mouth. Genesis 24:1.

It has of before the person asked. Enquire of them, or of him. It has of, concerning, or after, before the subject of inquiry.

He sent Hadoram, his son, to king David to inquire of his welfare. 1 Chronicles 18:1.

For thou does not inquire wisely concerning this.

Ecclesiastes 7:1.

When search is to be made for particular knowledge or information, it is followed by into. The coroner by jury inquires into the cause of a sudden death. When a place or person is sought, or something hid or missing, for is commonly used. inquire for Saul of Tarsus. He was inquiring for the house to which he was directed. inquire for the cloke that is lost. inquire for the right road. Sometimes it is followed by after. inquire after the right way.

When some general information is sought, this verb is followed by about; sometimes by concerning. His friends inquired about him; they inquired concerning his welfare.

2. To seek for truth by argument or the discussion of questions, or by investigation.

To inquire into, to make examination; to seek for particular information. inquire into the time, manner and place. inquire into all the circumstances of the case.

INQUI'RE, verb transitive To ask about; to seek by asking; as, he inquired the way; but the phrase is elliptical, for inquire for the way.

Inquirent

INQUI'RENT, adjective Making inquiry.

Inquirer

INQUI'RER, noun One who asks a question; one who interrogates; one who searches or examines; one who seeks for knowledge or information.

Inquiring

INQUI'RING, participle present tense Seeking for information by asking questions; asking; questioning; interrogating; examining.

Inquiry

INQUI'RY, noun

1. The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation.

The men who were sent from Cornelius, had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate. Acts 10:1.

2. Search for truth, information or knowledge; research; examination into facts or principles by proposing and discussing questions, by solving problems, by experiments or other modes; as physical inquiries; inquiries about philosophical knowledge.

The first inquiry of a rational being should be, who made me? the second, why was I made? who is my Creator, and what is his will?

Inquisition

INQUISI'TION, noun s as z. [Latin inquisitio, inquiro. See Inquire.]

1. Inquiry; examination; a searching or search. Psalms 9:12.

2. Judicial inquiry; official examination; inquest.

The justices in eyre had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county.

3. Examination; discussion.

4. In some catholic countries, a court or tribunal established for the examination and punishment of heretics. This court was established in the twelfth century by father Dominic, who was charged by pope Innocent III. with orders to excite catholic princes and people to extirpate heretics.

Inquisitional

INQUISI'TIONAL, adjective Making inquiry; busy in inquiry.

Inquisitive

INQUIS'ITIVE, adjective s as z. Apt to ask questions; addicted to inquiry; inclined to seek information by questions; followed by about or after. He was very inquisitive about or after news. Children are usually inquisitive

1. Inclined to seek knowledge by discussion, investigation or observation; given to research. He possesses an inquisitive mind or disposition. We live in an inquisitive age.

INQUIS'ITIVE, noun A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research.

Inquisitively

INQUIS'ITIVELY, adverb With curiosity to obtain information; with scrutiny.

Inquisitiveness

INQUIS'ITIVENESS, noun The disposition to obtain information by questioning others, or by researches into facts, causes or principles; curiosity to learn what is not known. The works of nature furnish ample matter for the inquisitiveness of the human mind.

Inquisitor

INQUIS'ITOR, noun [Latin See Inquire.] One who inquires; particularly, one whose official duty it is to inquire and examine.

1. A member of the court of inquisition in Catholic countries.

Inquisitorial

INQUISITO'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to inquisition; as inquisitorial power.

1. Pertaining to the catholic court of inquisition; as inquisitorial tragedy.

Inquisitorial robes.

Inquisitorious

INQUISITO'RIOUS, adjective Making strict inquiry.

Inquous

INQ'UOUS, adjective Unjust. [Not used.]

Inrail

INRA'IL, verb transitive [in and rail.] To rail in; to inclose with rails.

Inrailed

INRA'ILED, participle passive Inclosed with rails.

Inrailing

INRA'ILING, participle present tense Inclosing with rails.

Inregister

INREG'ISTER, verb transitive To register; to record; to enter in a register.

Inroad

IN'ROAD, noun [in and road.] The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion. The confines of England and Scotland were formerly harassed with frequent inroads. The English made inroads into Scotland, and the Scots into England, and the country was sometimes desolated.

1. Attack; encroachment.

Insafety

INSA'FETY, noun Want of safety.

Insalubrious

INSALU'BRIOUS, adjective [in and salubrious.] Not salubrious; not healthful; unfavorable to health; unwholesome; as an insalubrious air or climate.

Insalubrity

INSALU'BRITY, noun [in and salubrity.] Want of salubrity; unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as the insalubrity of air, water or climate.

Insalutary

INSAL'UTARY, adjective [in and salutary.] Not salutary; not favorable to health or soundness.

1. Not tending to safety; productive of evil.

Insanable

INSAN'ABLE, adjective [Latin insanabilis; in and sano, to heal.]

Incurable; that cannot be healed.

Insane

INSA'NE, adjective [Latin insanus; in and sanus, sound.]

1. Unsound in mind or intellect; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. [In this sense of making mad, it is little used.]

2. Used by or appropriated to insane persons; as an insane hospital.

INSA'NE, noun An insane person; as a hospital for the insane

Insanely

INSA'NELY, adverb Madly; foolishly; without reason.

Insaneness

INSA'NENESS

INSAN'ITY, noun The state of being unsound in mind; derangement of intellect; madness. Insanity is chiefly used, and the word is applicable to any degree of mental derangement, from slight delirium or wandering, to distraction. It is however rarely used to express slight, temporary delirium, occasioned by fever or accident.

Insanity

INSAN'ITY, n. The state of being unsound in mind; derangement of intellect; madness. Insanity is chiefly used, and the word is applicable to any degree of mental derangement, from slight delirium or wandering, to distraction. It is however rarely used to express slight, temporary delirium, occasioned by fever or accident.

Insapory

INSAP'ORY, adjective [Latin in and sapor, taste.]

Tasteless; wanting flavor. [Not used.]

Insatiable

INSA'TIABLE, adjective insa'shable. [Latin insatiabilis; in and satio, to satisfy.] Incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as an insatiable appetite or desire; insatiable thirst.

Insatiableness

INSA'TIABLENESS, noun insa'shableness. Greediness of appetite that cannot be satisfied or appeased.

Insatiably

INSA'TIABLY, adverb insa'shably. With greediness not to be satisfied.

Insatiate

INSA'TIATE, adjective insa'shate. [Latin insatiatus.]

Not to be satisfied; insatiable; as insatiate thirst.

Insatiately

INSA'TIATELY, adverb So greedily as not to be satisfied.

Insatiety

INSATI'ETY, noun Insatiableness.

Insatisfaction

INSATISFAC'TION, noun Want of satisfaction.

Insaturabale

INSAT'URABALE, adjective [Latin insaturabilis; in and satur, full.]

Not to be saturated, filled or glutted.

Inscience

INSCI'ENCE, noun [in and science.] Ignorance; want of knowledge.

Inscribe

INSCRI'BE, verb transitive [Latin inscribo; in and scribo, to write, Eng. to scrape. See Scribe.]

1. To write on; to engrave on for perpetuity or duration; as, to inscribe a line or verse on a monument, on a column or pillar.

2. To imprint on; as, to inscribe any thing on the mind or memory.

3. To assign or address to; to comment to by a short address, less formal than a dedication; as, to inscribe an ode or a book to a prince.

4. To mark with letters, characters or words; as, to inscribe a stone with a name.

5. To draw a figure within another, so that all the angles of the figure inscribed touch the angles, sides or planes of the other figure.

Inscribed

INSCRI'BED, participle passive Written on; engraved; marked; addressed.

Inscriber

INSCRI'BER, noun One who inscribes.

Inscribing

INSCRI'BING, participle present tense Writing on; engraving; marking; addressing.

Inscription

INSCRIP'TION, noun [Latin inscriptio. See Inscribe.]

1. Something written or engraved to communicate knowledge to after ages; any character, word, line or sentence written or engraved on a solid substance for duration; as inscriptions on monuments, called epitaphs, on pillars, etc. We do not call by this name writings on paper or parchment.

2. A title.

3. An address or consignment of a book to a person, as a mark of respect, or an invitation of patronage. It is less formal than a dedication.

Inscriptive

INSCRIP'TIVE, adjective Bearing inscription.

Inscroll

INSCROLL, verb transitive To write on a scroll.

Inscrutability

INSCRUTABIL'ITY,

Inscrutable

INSCRU'TABLE, adjective [Latin inscrutabilis; in and scrutor, to search.]

1. Unsearchable; that cannot be searched into and understood by inquiry or study. The designs of the emperor appear to be inscrutable

2. That cannot be penetrated, discovered or understood by human reason. The ways of Providence are often inscrutable Mysteries are inscrutable

Inscrutableness

INSCRU'TABLENESS, noun The quality of being inscrutable.

Inscrutably

INSCRU'TABLY, adverb In a manner or degree not to be found out or understood. The moral government of an infinite being must often be inscrutably dark and mysterious.

Insculp

INSCULP', verb transitive [Latin insulpo; in and sculpo, to engrave.]

To engrave; to carve. [Little used.]

Insculption

INSCULP'TION, noun Inscription. [Little used.]

Insculpture

INSCULP'TURE, noun An engraving; sculpture. [See Sculpture, which is generally used.]

Inseam

INSE'AM, verb transitive [in and seam.] To impress or make with a seam or cicatrix. [Poetical.]

Insearch

INSEARCH, verb transitive inserch'. To make search. [Not used.]

Insecable

INSEC'ABLE, adjective [Latin insecabilis; in and seco, to cut.]

That cannot be divided by a cutting instrument; indivisible.

Insect

IN'SECT, noun [Latin insecta, plural , from inseco, to cut in; in and seco, to cut. This name seems to have been originally given to certain small animals whose bodies appear cut in, or almost divided.]

1. In zoology, a small invertebral animal, breathing by lateral spiracles, and furnished with articulated extremities and movable antennae. Most insects pass through three states or metamorphoses, the larva, the chrysalis, and the perfect insect

The class of insects, in the Linnean system, is divided into seven orders, the last of which [Aptera] includes the Crustacea, which breathe by gills, and the Arachnids, which have no antennae, now forming two distinct classes.

The term insect has been applied, but improperly, to other small invertebral animals of the Linnean class Vermes.

2. Any thing small or contemptible.

IN'SECT, adjective Small; mean; contemptible.

Insectator

INSECTA'TOR, noun [Latin] A persecutor. [Little used.]

Insected

INSECT'ED, adjective Having the nature of an insect.

Insectile

INSECT'ILE, adjective Having the nature of insects.

INSECT'ILE, noun An insect. [Not used.]

Insection

INSEC'TION, noun A cutting in; incisure; incision.

Insectivorous

INSECTIV'OROUS, adjective [insect and Latin voro, to eat.]

Feeding or subsisting on insects. Many winged animals are insectivorous

Insectologer

INSECTOL'OGER, noun [insect.] One who studies insects. [Not in use. See Entomologist.]

Insecure

INSECU'RE, adjective [in and secure.] Not secure; not safe; exposed to danger or loss. Goods on the ocean are insecure Hay and grain unhoused are insecure Debts are often insecure

Insecurely

INSECU'RELY, adverb Without security or safety; without certainty.

Insecurity

INSECU'RITY, noun [in and security.] Want of safety, or want of confidence in safety. Seamen in a tempest must be conscious of their insecurity

1. Uncertainty. With what insecurity of truth we ascribe effects or unseen causes.

2. Want of safety; danger; hazard; exposure to destruction or loss; applied to things; as the insecurity of a building exposed to fire; the insecurity of a debt.

Insecution

INSECU'TION, noun [Latin insecutio.] Pursuit.

Inseminate

INSEM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin insemino.] To sow. [Little used.]

Insemination

INSEMINA'TION, noun The act of sowing. [Little used.]

Insensate

INSENS'ATE, adjective [Latin in and sensus, sense.]

Destitute of sense; stupid; foolish; wanting sensibility.

Insensibility

INSENSIBIL'ITY, noun [from insensible.]

1. Want of sensibility, or the power of feeling or perceiving. A frozen limb is in a state of insensibility as is an animal body after death.

2. Want of the power to be moved or affected; want of tenderness or susceptibility of emotion and passion. Not to be moved at the distresses of others denotes an insensibility extremely unnatural.

3. Dullness; stupidity; torpor.

Insensible

INSENS'IBLE, adjective [Latin in and sensus, sense, sentio, to feel.]

1. Imperceptible; that cannot be felt or perceived. The motion of the earth is insensible to the eye. A plant grows, and the body decays by insensible degrees. The humors of the body are evacuated by insensible perspiration.

The dense and bright light of the circle will obscure the rare and weak light of these dark colors round about it, and render them almost insensible

2. Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting corporeal sensibility. An injury to the spine often renders the inferior parts of the body insensible

3. Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; wanting tenderness. To be insensible to the sufferings of our fellow men is inhuman. To be insensible of danger is not always evidence of courage.

4. Dull; stupid; torpid.

5. Void of sense or meaning; as insensible words.

Insensibleness

INSENS'IBLENESS, noun Inability to perceive; want of sensibility. [See Insensibility, which is generally used.]

Insensibly

INSENS'IBLY, adverb Imperceptibly; in a manner not to be felt or perceived by the senses.

The hills rise insensibly

1. By slow degrees; gradually. Men often slide insensibly into vicious habits.

Insentient

INSENT'IENT, adjective [in and sentient.] Not having perception or the power of perception.

Inseparability

INSEPARABIL'ITY , noun The quality of being inseparable, or incapable of disfunction. [The latter word is rarely used.]

Inseparable

INSEP'ARABLE, adjective [Latin inseparabilis; in and separabilis, separo, to separate.] That cannot be separated or disjoined; not to be parted. There is an inseparable connection between vice and suffering or punishment.

Inseparableness

INSEP'ARABLENESS

INSEP'ARABLY, adverb In a manner that prevents separation; with indissoluble union.

Inseparably

INSEP'ARABLY, adv. In a manner that prevents separation; with indissoluble union.

Inseparate

INSEP'ARATE, adjective Not separate. [Not used.]

Inseparately

INSEP'ARATELY, adverb So as not to be separated. [Not used.]

Insert

INSERT', verb transitive [Latin insero, insertum; in and sero, to thrust.]

Literally, to thrust in; hence, to set in or among; as, to insert a cion in a stock; to insert a letter, word or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement or other writing in a paper.

Inserted

INSERT'ED, participle passive Set in or among.

Inserting

INSERT'ING, participle present tense Setting in or among.

Insertion

INSER'TION, noun [Latin insertio.]

1. The act of setting or placing in or among other things; as the insertion of cions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings; the insertion of notices or essays in a public paper; the insertion of vessels, tendons, etc. in other parts of the body.

2. The thing inserted.

Inservient

INSERV'IENT, adjective Conducive.

Inset

INSET', verb transitive To infix or implant.

Inshaded

INSHA'DED, adjective Marked with different shades.

Inshell

INSHELL', verb transitive To hide in a shell.

Inshelter

INSHEL'TER, verb intransitive To shelter.

Inship

INSHIP', verb transitive To ship; to embark.

Inshrine

INSHRINE. [See Enshrine.]

Inside

IN'SIDE, noun [in and side.] The interior part of a thing; internal part; opposed to outside; as the inside of a church; the inside of a letter.

Insidiate

INSID'IATE, verb transitive [Latin insidior.] To lie in ambush for.

Insidiator

INSID'IATOR, noun One who lies in ambush.

Insidious

INSID'IOUS, adjective [Latin insidiosus, from insideo, to lie in wait; in and sedeo, to sit.]

1. Properly, lying in wait; hence, watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; used of persons.

2. Intended to entrap; as insidious arts.

Insidiously

INSID'IOUSLY, adverb With intention to insnare; deceitfully; treacherously; with malicious artifice or stratagem.

Insidiousness

INSID'IOUSNESS, noun A watching for an opportunity to insnare; deceitfulness; treachery.

Insight

IN'SIGHT, noun in'site. [in and sight.] Sight or view of the interior of any thing; deep inspection or view; introspection; thorough knowledge or skill.

A garden gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence.

Insignia

INSIG'NIA, noun [Latin plural ] Badges or distinguishing marks of office or honor.

1. Marks, signs or visible impressions, by which any thing is known or distinguished.

Insignificance

INSIGNIF'ICANCE

INSIGNIF'ICANCY, noun [in and significance.]

1. Want of significance or meaning; as the insignificance of words or phrases.

2. Unimportance; want of force or effect; as the insignificance of human art or of ceremonies.

3. Want of weight; meanness.

Insignificancy

INSIGNIF'ICANCY, n. [in and significance.] 1. Want of significance or meaning; as the insignificance of words or phrases.2. Unimportance; want of force or effect; as the insignificance of human art or of ceremonies.3. Want of weight; meanness.

Insignificant

INSIGNIF'ICANT, adjective [in and significant.]

1. Void of signification; destitute of meaning; as insignificant words.

2. Unimportant; answering no purpose; having no weight or effect; as insignificant rites.

3. Without weight of character; mean; contemptible; as an insignificant being or fellow.

INSIGNIF'ICANT, noun An insignificant trifling or worthless thing.

Insignificantly

INSIGNIF'ICANTLY, adverb Without meaning, as words.

1. Without importance or effect; to no purpose.

Insignificative

INSIGNIF'ICATIVE, adjective Not expressing by external signs.

Insincere

INSINCE'RE, adjective [Latin insincerus; in and sincerus, sincere.]

1. Not sincere; not being in truth what one appears to be; dissembling; hypocritical; false; used of persons; as an insincere heart.

2. Deceitful; hypocritical; false; used of things; as insincere declarations or professions.

3. Not sound.

Insincerely

INSINCE'RELY, adverb Without sincerity; hypocritically.

Insincerity

INSINCER'ITY, noun Dissimulation; want of sincerity or of being in reality what one appears to be; hypocrisy; used of persons.

1. Deceitfulness; hollowness; used of things; as the insincerity of professions.

Insinew

INSIN'EW, verb transitive [in and sinew.] To strengthen; to give vigor to.

Insinuant

INSIN'UANT, adjective [Latin insinuans.] Insinuating; having the power to gain favor. [Little used.]

Insinuate

INSIN'UATE, verb transitive [Latin insinuo; in and sinus, the bosom, a bay, inlet or recess.]

1. To introduce gently, or into a narrow passage; to wind in. Water insinuates itself into the crevices of rocks.

2. To push or work one's self into favor; to introduce by slow, gentle or artful means.

He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the duke of Buckingham.

3. To hint; to suggest by remote allusion.

And all the fictions bards pursue,

Do but insinuate what's true.

4. To instill; to infuse gently; to introduce artfully.

All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions and thereby mislead the judgment.

INSIN'UATE, verb intransitive To creep in; to wind in; to flow in; to enter gently, slowly or imperceptibly, as into crevices.

1. To gain on the affections by gentle or artful means, or by imperceptible degrees; as insinuating flattery.

2. To wind along.

Insinuated

INSIN'UATED, participle passive Introduced or conveyed gently; imperceptibly or by winding into crevices; hinted.

Insinuating

INSIN'UATING, participle present tense Creeping or winding in; flowing in; gaining on gently; hinting.

1. Tending to enter gently; insensibly winning favor and confidence.

Insinuation

INSINUA'TION, noun [Latin insinuatio.]

1. The act of insinuating; a creeping or winding in; a flowing into crevices.

2. The act of gaining on favor or affections, by gentle or artful means.

3. The art or power of pleasing and stealing on the affections.

He had a natural insinuation and address; which made him acceptable in the best company.

4. A hint; a suggestion or intimation by distant allusion. Slander may be conveyed by insinuation

Insinuative

INSIN'UATIVE, adjective Stealing on the affections.

Insinuator

INSIN'UATOR, noun One who insinuates; one that hints.

Insipid

INSIP'ID, adjective [Latin insipidus; in and sapidus, sapio, to taste.]

1. Tasteless; destitute of taste; wanting the qualities which affect the organs of taste; vapid; as insipid liquor.

2. Wanting spirit, life or animation; wanting pathos, or the power of exciting emotions; flat; dull; heavy; as an insipid address; an insipid composition.

3. Wanting power to gratify desire; as insipid pleasure.

Insipidity

INSIPID'ITY

INSIP'IDLY, adverb Without taste; without spirit or life; without enjoyment.

Insipidly

INSIP'IDLY, adv. Without taste; without spirit or life; without enjoyment.

Insipidness

INSIP'IDNESS, noun

1. Want of taste, or the power of exciting sensation in the tongue.

2. Want of life or spirit.

Dryden's lines shine strongly through the insipidity of

Tate's.

Insipience

INSIP'IENCE, noun [Latin insipientia; in and sapio, to be wise.]

Want of wisdom; folly; foolishness; want of understanding.

Insist

INSIST', verb intransitive [Latin insisto; in and sisto, to stand.]

1. Literally, to stand or rest on. [Rarely used.]

2. In geometry, an angle is said to insist upon the arc of the circle intercepted between the two lines which contain the angle.

3. To dwell on in discourse; as, to insist on a particular topic.

To insist on, to press or urge for any thing with immovable firmness; to persist in demands; as, to insist on oppressive terms in a treaty; to insist on immediate payment of a debt.

Insistent

INSIST'ENT, adjective Standing or resting on; as an insistent wall. [Little used.]

Insisture

INSIST'URE, noun A dwelling or standing on; fixedness.

Insitiency

INSIT'IENCY, noun [Latin in and sitio, to thirst.] Freedom from thirst.

Insition

INSI'TION, noun [Latin insitio, from insitus, insero, to plant.]

The insertion of a cion in a stock; ingraftment.

Insnare

INSNA'RE, verb transitive [in and snare.] To catch in a snare; to entrap; to take by artificial means.

1. To inveigle; to seduce by artifice; to take by wiles, stratagem or deceit. The flattering tongue is apt to insnare the artless youth.

2. To entangle; to involve in difficulties or perplexities.

[This word is often written ensnare, but insnare is the true orthography.]

Insnared

INSNA'RED, participle passive Caught in a snare; entrapped; inveigled; involved in perplexities.

Insnarer

INSNA'RER, noun One that insnares.

Insnaring

INSNA'RING, participle present tense Catching in a snare; entrapping; seducing; involving in difficulties.

Insobriety

INSOBRI'ETY, noun [in and sobriety.] Want of sobriety; intemperance; drunkenness.

Insociable

INSO'CIABLE, adjective [Latin insociabilis; in and sociabilis, socio, to unite.]

1. Not inclined to unite in social converse; not given to conversation; unsociable; taciturn.

2. That cannot be joined or connected.

Lime and wood are insociable [Not in use.]

Insolate

IN'SOLATE, verb transitive [Latin insolo; in and sol, the sun.]

To dry in the sun's rays; to expose to the heat of the sun; to ripen or prepare by exposure to the sun.

Insolated

IN'SOLATED, participle passive Exposed to the sun; dried or matured in the sun's rays.

Insolating

IN'SOLATING, participle present tense Exposing to the action of sun-beams.

Insolation

INSOLA'TION, noun The act of exposing to the rays of the sun for drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc. or for rendering acid, as vinegar, or for promoting some chimical action of one substance on another.

1. A stroke of the sun; the action of extreme heat on the brain.

Insolence

IN'SOLENCE, noun [Latin insolentia; in and soleo, to be accustomed.]

Pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; petulant contempt; impudence.

Blown with insolence and wine.

IN'SOLENCE, verb transitive To treat with haughty contempt. [Not used.]

Insolent

IN'SOLENT, adjective Proud and haughty, with contempt of others; overbearing; domineering in power; as an insolent master.

1. Proceeding from insolence; haughty and contemptuous; as insolent words or behavior.

2. Unaccustomed; the primary sense. [Not used.]

Insolently

IN'SOLENTLY, adverb With contemptuous pride; haughtily; rudely; saucily.

Insolidity

INSOLID'ITY, noun [in and solidity.] Want of solidity; weakness.

Insolubility

INSOLUBIL'ITY, noun [from insoluble.] The quality of not being soluble or dissolvable, particularly in a fluid.

Insoluble

INSOL'UBLE, adjective [Latin insolubilis; in and solvo, to dissolve.]

1. That cannot be dissolved, particularly by a liquid. We say a substance is insoluble in water, when its parts will not separate and mix with that fluid.

2. Not to be solved or explained; not to be resolved; as a doubt or difficulty. [Not much used.]

Insolvable

INSOLV'ABLE, adjective [Latin in and solvo, to loosen or dissolve.]

1. Not to be cleared of difficulty or uncertainty; not to be solved or explained; not admitting solution or explication; as an insolvable problem or difficulty.

2. That cannot be paid or discharged.

Insolvency

INSOLV'ENCY, noun [infra.] Inability of a person to pay all his debts; or the state of wanting property sufficient for such payment; as a merchant's insolvency

1. Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as the insolvency of an estate.

Act of insolvency [See infra, Insolvent law.]

Insolvent

INSOLV'ENT, adjective [Latin in and solvens, solvo, to solve, to free, to pay.]

1. Not having money, goods or estate sufficient to pay all debts; as an insolvent debtor.

2. Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner; as an insolvent estate.

3. Respecting insolvent debtors; relieving an insolvent debtor from imprisonment for debt, or form liability to arrest and imprisonment for debts previously contracted; as an insolvent law.

Insolvent law, or act of insolvency, a law which liberates a debtor from imprisonment, or exempts him from liability to arrest and imprisonment on account of any debt previously contracted. These terms may be considered as generic, comprehending also bankrupt laws, which protect a man's future acquisitions from his creditors. But in a limited sense, as the words are now generally used, an insolvent law extends only to protect the person of the debtor form imprisonment on account of debts previously contracted.

INSOLV'ENT, noun A debtor unable to pay his debts.

Insomnious

INSOM'NIOUS, adjective [Latin insomniosus; or in and somnus, sleep.]

Troubled with dreams; restless in sleep.

Insomuch

INSOMUCH', adverb [in, so, and much.] So that; to that degree.

Simonides was an excellent poet, insomuch that he made his fortune by it.

[This word or combination of words is not deemed elegant, and is obsolescent, at least in classical composition.]

Inspect

INSPECT', verb transitive [Latin inspicio, inspectum; in and specio, to view.]

1. To look on; to view or oversee for the purpose of examination. It is the duty of parents to inspect the conduct or manners of their children.

2. To look into; to view and examine, for the purpose of ascertaining the quality or condition of a thing; as, to inspect potash; to inspect flour; to inspect arms.

3. To view and examine for the purpose of discovering and correcting errors; as, to inspect the press, or the proof-sheets of a book.

4. To superintend.

INSPECT', noun Close examination. [Not used.]

Inspected

INSPECT'ED, participle passive Viewed with care; examined by the eye or officially.

Inspecting

INSPECT'ING, participle present tense Looking on or into; viewing with care; examining for ascertaining the quality or condition.

Inspection

INSPEC'TION, noun [Latin inspectio.]

1. A looking on or into; prying examination; close or careful survey; as the divine inspection into the affairs of the world.

2. Watch; guardianship; as a youth placed at school under the inspection of a friend.

3. Superintendence; oversight. The fortifications are to be executed under the inspection of an officer of the army.

4. Official view; a careful viewing and examining of commodities or manufactures, to ascertain their quality; as the inspection of flour.

5. Official examination, as of arms, to see that they are in good order for service.

Inspector

INSPECT'OR, noun One who inspects, views or oversees; as an inspector of morals; an inspector of the press.

1. A superintendent; one to whose care the execution of any work is committed, for the purpose of seeing it faithfully performed.

2. An officer whose duty is to examine the quality of goods or commodities offered for sale.

3. An officer of the customs.

4. A military officer whose duty is to inspect the troops and examine their arms.

Inspectorate

INSPECT'ORATE

INSPECT'ORSHIP, noun The office of an inspector.

Inspectorship

INSPECT'ORSHIP, n. The office of an inspector.