Inspersed – Intended

Inspersed

INSPERS'ED, adjective Sprinkled on. [Not used.]

Inspersion

INSPER'SION, noun [Latin inspersio, inspergo; in and spargo, to scatter.]

The act of sprinkling on.

Inspeximus

INSPEX'IMUS, noun [we have inspected; the first word of ancient charters, etc., ] An exemplification.

Insphere

INSPHE'RE, verb transitive [in and sphere.] To place in an orb or sphere.

Inspirable

INSPI'RABLE, adjective [from inspire.] That may be inspired.

1. That may be drawn into the lungs; inhalable; as air or vapors.

Inspiration

INSPIRA'TION, noun [Latin inspiro.]

1. The act of drawing air into the lungs; the inhaling of air; a branch of respiration, and opposed to expiration.

2. The act of breathing into any thing.

3. The infusion of ideas into the mind by the Holy Spirit; the conveying into the minds of men, ideas, notices or monitions by extraordinary or supernatural influence; or the communication of the divine will to the understanding by suggestions or impressions on the mind, which leave no room to doubt the reality of their supernatural origin.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. 2 Timothy 3:16.

4. The infusion of ideas or directions by the supposed deities of pagans.

5. The infusion or communication of ideas or poetic spirit, by a superior being or supposed presiding power; as the inspiration of Homer or other poet.

Inspiratory

IN'SPIRATORY, adjective Pertaining to inspiration, or inhaling air into the lungs.

Inspire

INSPI'RE, verb intransitive [Latin inspiro; in and spiro, to breathe.]

To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; opposed to expire.

INSPI'RE, verb transitive To breathe into.

Ye nine, descend and sing,

The breathing instruments inspire

1. To infuse by breathing.

He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul.

2. To infuse into the mind; as, to inspire with new life.

3. To infuse or suggest ideas or monitions supernaturally; to communicate divine instructions to the mind. In this manner, we suppose the prophets to have been inspired, and the Scriptures to have been composed under divine influence or direction.

4. To infuse ideas or poetic spirit.

5. To draw into the lungs; as, to inspire and expire the air with difficulty.

Inspired

INSPI'RED, participle passive Breathed in; inhaled; infused.

1. Informed or directed by the Holy Spirit.

Inspirer

INSPI'RER, noun He that inspires.

Inspiring

INSPI'RING, participle present tense Breathing in; inhaling into the lungs; infusing into the mind supernaturally.

1. Infusing spirit or courage; animating.

Inspirit

INSPIR'IT, verb transitive [in and spirit.] To infuse or excite spirit in; to enliven; to animate; to give new lift to; to encourage; to invigorate.

The courage of Agamemnon is inspirited by the love of empire and ambition.

Inspirited

INSPIR'ITED, participle passive Enlivened; animated; invigorated.

Inspiriting

INSPIR'ITING, participle present tense Infusing spirit; giving new life to.

Inspissate

INSPIS'SATE, verb transitive [Latin in and spissus, thick.] To thicken, as fluids; to bring to greater consistence by evaporating the thinner parts, etc.

Inspissated

INSPIS'SATED, participle passive Thickened, as a liquor.

Inspissating

INSPIS'SATING, participle present tense Thickening, as a liquor.

Inspissation

INSPISSA'TION, noun The act or operation of rendering a fluid substance thicker by evaporation, etc.

Instability

INSTABIL'ITY, noun [Latin instabilitas, instabilis; in and stabilis, from sto, to stand.

1. Want of stability; want of firmness in purpose; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability of opinion or conduct. instability is the characteristic of weak minds.

2. Changeableness; mutability; as the instability of laws, plans or measures.

Instable

INSTA'BLE, adjective [Latin instabilis.] Inconstant; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; of persons.

1. Not steady or fixed; changeable; of things.

[Instable and unstable are synonymous, and the latter is more commonly used.]

Instableness

INSTA'BLENESS, noun Unstableness; mutability; instability.

Install

INSTALL', verb transitive [Gr. to send.] To set, place or instate, in an office, rank or order; to invest with any charge, office or rank, with the customary ceremonies. To install a clergyman or minister of the gospel, is to place one who has been previously ordained, over a particular church and congregation, or to invest an ordained minister with a particular pastoral charge; in England, to induct a dean, prebendary or other ecclesiastical dignitary into possession of the church to which he belongs.

Installation

INSTALLA'TION, noun The act of giving possession of an office, rank or order, with the customary ceremonies.

On the election, the bishop gives a mandate for his installation

Installed

INSTALL'ED, participle passive Placed in a seat, office or order.

Installing

INSTALL'ING, participle present tense Placing in a seat, office or order.

Installment

INSTALL'MENT, noun The act of installing, or giving possession of an office with the usual ceremonies or solemnities.

1. The seat in which one is placed. [Unusual.]

2. In commerce, a part of a large sum of money paid or to be paid at a particular period. In constituting a capital stock by subscriptions of individuals, it is customary to afford facilities to subscribers by dividing the sum subscribed into installments, or portions payable at distinct periods. In large contracts also, it is not unusual to agree that the money shall be paid by installments.

Instance

IN'STANCE, noun [Latin insto, to press; in and sto, to stand.]

Literally, a standing on. Hence,

1. Urgency; a pressing; solicitation; importunity; application. The request was granted at the instance of the defendant's advocate.

2. Example; a case occurring; a case offered. Howard furnished a remarkable instance of disinterested benevolence. The world may never witness a second instance of the success of daring enterprise and usurpation, equal to that of Buonaparte.

Suppose the earth should be removed nearer to the sun, and revolve, for instance in the orbit of Mercury, the whole ocean would boil with heat.

The use of instances, is to illustrate and explain a difficulty.

3. Time; occasion; occurrence.

These seem as if, in the time of Edward I, they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance

4. Motive; influence.

5. Process of a suit.

Instance-court, a branch of the court of admiralty, in England, distinct from the prize-court.

IN'STANCE, verb intransitive To give or offer an example or case.

As to false citations--I shall instance in two or three.

IN'STANCE, verb transitive To mention as an example or case. He instanced the event of Caesar's death.

Instanced

IN'STANCED, participle passive or adjective Given in proof or as an example.

Instant

IN'STANT, adjective [Latin instans, insto.]

1. Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Romans 12:12.

2. Immediate; without intervening time; present.

Impending death is thine and instant doom.

3. Quick; making no delay.

Instant he flew with hospitable haste.

4. Present; current. On the tenth of July instant

IN'STANT, noun A point in duration; a moment; a part of duration in which we perceive no succession, or a part that occupies the time of a single thought.

1. A particular time.

Instantaneity

INSTANTANE'ITY, noun Unpremeditated production.

Instantaneous

INSTANTA'NEOUS, adjective Done in an instant; occurring or acting without any perceptible succession; very speedily. The passage of electricity through any given space appears to be instantaneous

Instantaneously

INSTANTA'NEOUSLY, adverb In an instant; in a moment; in an indivisible point of duration. The operations of the human mind are wonderful; our thoughts fly from world to world instantaneously In the western parts of the Atlantic states of America, showers of rain sometimes begin instantaneously

Instantaneousness

INSTANTA'NEOUSNESS, noun The quality of being done in an instant.

Instanter

INSTANT'ER, adverb [Latin] In law, immediately; at the present time; without delay.

The party was compelled to plead instanter

Instantly

IN'STANTLY, adverb Immediately; without any intervening time; at the moment.

Lightning often kills instantly

1. With urgent importunity.

And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly saying, that he was worthy for whom he should do this. Luke 7:4.

2. With diligence and earnestness. Acts 26:7.

Instar

INST'AR, verb transitive [in and star.] To set or adorn with stars, or with brilliants.

A golden throne

Instarr'd with gems.

Instate

INSTA'TE, verb transitive [in and state.] To set or place; to establish, as in a rank or condition; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor.

1. To invest.

Instated

INSTA'TED, participle passive Set or placed.

Instating

INSTA'TING, participle present tense Setting or placing.

Instauration

INSTAURA'TION, noun [Latin instauratio, instauro, to renew.]

Renewal; repair; re-establishment; the restoration of a thing to its former state, after decay, lapse or dilapidation.

Instaurator

INSTAURA'TOR, noun One who renews or restores to a former condition.

Instead

INSTEAD, insted'. [a compound of in and stead, place; but stead retains its character of a noun, and is followed by of; instead of, in the same manner as in the stead of.]

In the place or room of.

Let thistles grow instead of wheat. Job 31:40.

Absalom made Amasa captain of the hose instead of Joab.

2 Samuel 17:25.

This consideration is instead of a thousand arguments. In this use, instead may be equivalent to equal to.

When instead is used without of following, there is an ellipsis, or some words are understood.

Insteep

INSTEE'P, verb transitive [in and steep.] To steep or soak; to drench; to macerate in moisture.

1. To keep under or in water.

Insteeped

INSTEE'PED, participle present tense Steeped; soaked; drenched; lying under water.

Insteeping

INSTEE'PING, participle present tense Steeping; soaking.

Instep

IN'STEP, noun [in and step.] The instep of the human foot, is the fore part of the upper side of the foot, near its junction with the leg.

1. The instep of a horse, is that part of the hind leg, which reaches form the ham to the paster-joint.

Instigate

IN'STIGATE, verb transitive [Latin instigo; in and stigo, inusit; Gr. to prick.]

To incite; to set on; to provoke; to urge; used chiefly or wholly in an ill sense; as, to instigate one to evil; to instigate to a crime.

Instigated

IN'STIGATED, participle passive Incited or persuaded, as to evil.

Instigating

IN'STIGATING, participle present tense Inciting; tempting to evil.

Instigation

INSTIGA'TION, noun Incitement, as to evil or wickedness; the act of encouraging to commit a crime or some evil act.

1. Temptation; impulse to evil; as the instigation of the devil.

Instigator

IN'STIGATOR, noun One who incites another to an evil act; a tempter.

1. That which incites; that which moves persons to commit wickedness.

Instill

INSTILL', verb transitive [Latin instillo; in and stillo, to drop.]

1. To infuse by drops.

2. To infuse slowly, or by small quantities; as, to instill good principles into the mind.

Instillation

INSTILLA'TION, noun [Latin instillatio.] The act of infusing by drops or by small quantities.

1. The act of infusing slowly into the mind.

2. That which is instilled or infused.

Instilled

INSTILL'ED, participle passive Infused by drops or by slow degrees.

Instiller

INSTILL'ER, noun He that instills.

Instilling

INSTILL'ING, participle present tense Infusing by drops or by slow degrees.

Instillment

INSTILL'MENT, noun Any thing instilled.

Instimulate

INSTIM'ULATE, verb transitive To stimulate; to excite. [Not used.]

Instimulating

INSTIM'ULATING, participle present tense Not stimulating; not exciting vital powers.

Instimulation

INSTIMULA'TION, noun [in and stimulation.]

The act of stimulating, inciting or urging forward.

Instinct

INSTINCT', adjective [Latin instinctus. See the Noun.]

Moved; animated; excited; as instinct with spirit.

Betulia--instinct with life.

IN'STINCT, noun [Latin instinctus, inwardly moved; in and stinguo.]

A certain power or disposition of mind by which, independent of all instruction or experience, without deliberation and without having any end in view, animals are unerringly directed to do spontaneously whatever is necessary for the preservation of the individual, or the continuation of the kind. Such, in the human species, is the instinct of sucking exerted immediately after birth, and that of insects in depositing their eggs in situations most favorable for hatching.

INSTINCT may be defined, the operation of the principle of organized life by the exercise of certain natural powers directed to the present or future good of the individual.

INSTINCT is the general property of the living principle, or the law of organized life in a state of action.

And reason raise o'er instinct as you can,

In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.

Instincted

INSTINCT'ED, adjective Impressed; as an animating power. [Little used.]

Instinction

INSTINC'TION, noun Instinct. [Not in use.]

Instinctive

INSTINCT'IVE, adjective Prompted by instinct; spontaneous; acting without reasoning, deliberation, instruction or experience; determined by natural impulse or propensity. The propensity of bees to form hexagonal cells for holding their honey and their young, must be instinctive

Instinctively

INSTINCT'IVELY, adverb By force of instinct; without reasoning, instruction or experience; by natural impulse.

Institute

IN'STITUTE, verb transitive [Latin instituo; in and statuo, to set.]

1. To establish; to appoint; to enact; to form and prescribe; as, to institute laws; to institute rules and regulations.

2. To found; to originate and establish, as to institute a new order of nobility; to institute a court.

3. To ground or establish in principles; to educate; to instruct; as, to institute children in the principles of a science.

4. To begin; to commence; to set in operation; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit.

5. To invest with the spiritual part of a benefice or the care of souls.

IN'STITUTE, noun [Latin institutum.]

1. Established law; settled order.

2. Precept; maxim; principle.

To make the Stoic institutes thy own.

3. A book of elements or principles; particularly, a work containing the principles of the Roman law.

Instituted

IN'STITUTED, participle passive Established; appointed; founded; enacted; invested with the care of souls.

Instituting

IN'STITUTING, participle present tense Establishing; founding; enacting; investing with the care of souls.

Institution

INSTITU'TION, noun [Latin institutio.]

1. The act of establishing.

2. Establishment; that which is appointed, prescribed or founded by authority, and intended to be permanent. Thus we speak of the institutions of Moses or Lycurgus. We apply the word institution to laws, rites, and ceremonies, which are enjoined by authority as permanent rules of conduct or of government.

3. A system, plan or society established, either by law or by the authority of individuals for promoting any object, public or social. We call a college or an academy, a literary institution; a bible society, a benevolent or charitable institution; a banking company and an insurance company are commercial institutions.

4. A system of the elements or rules of any art or science.

5. Education; instruction.

His learning was not the effect of precept or institution

6. The act or ceremony of investing a clerk with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge.

Institutional

INSTITU'TIONAL, adjective Enjoined; instituted by authority.

Institutionary

INSTITU'TIONARY, adjective Elemental; containing the first principles or doctrines.

Institutist

IN'STITUTIST, noun A writer of institutes or elementary rules and instructions.

Institutive

IN'STITUTIVE, adjective That establishes; having power to establish.

1. Established; depending on institution.

Institutor

IN'STITUTOR, noun [Latin] The person who establishes; one who enacts laws, rites and ceremonies, and enjoins the observance of them.

1. The person who founds an order, sect, society or scheme for the promotion of a public or social object.

2. An instructor; one who educates; as an institutor of youth.

Instop

INSTOP', verb transitive [in and stop.] To stop; to close; to make fast. [Little used.]

Instratified

INSTRA'TIFIED, adjective Stratified within something else.

Instruct

INSTRUCT', verb transitive [Latin instruo, instructum; in and struo, to set or to put on, to furnish. The Latin struo is contracted from struco or strugo. See Destroy.]

1. To teach; to inform the mind; to educate; to impart knowledge to one who was destitute of it. The first duty of parents is to instruct their children in the principles of religion and morality.

2. To direct; to enjoin; to persuade or admonish.

She being before instructed by her mother, said, give me here the head of John the Baptist in a charger. Matthew 14:8.

3. To direct or command; to furnish with orders. The president instructed his envoy to insist on the restitution of the property.

4. To inform; to advise or give notice to. On this question the court is not instructed.

5. To model; to form; to prepare. [Not used.]

Instructed

INSTRUCT'ED, participle passive Taught; informed; trained up; educated.

Instructible

INSTRUCT'IBLE, adjective Able to instruct.

Instructing

INSTRUCT'ING, participle present tense Teaching; informing the mind; directing.

Instruction

INSTRUC'TION, noun [Latin instructio.]

1. The act of teaching or informing the understanding in that of which it was before ignorant; information.

2. Precepts conveying knowledge.

Receive my instruction and not silver. Proverbs 8:10.

3. Direction; order; command; mandate. The minister received instructions from his sovereign to demand a categorical answer.

Instructive

INSTRUCT'IVE, adjective Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform. Affliction furnishes very instructive lessons.

Instructively

INSTRUCT'IVELY, adverb So as to afford instruction.

Instructor

INSTRUCT'OR, noun A teacher; a person who imparts knowledge to another by precept or information. 1 Corinthians 4:15.

1. The preceptor of a school or seminary of learning; any president, professor or tutor, whose business is to teach languages, literature or the sciences; any professional man who teaches the principles of his profession.

Instructress

INSTRUCT'RESS, noun A female who instructs; a preceptress; a tutoress.

Instrument

IN'STRUMENT, noun [Latin instrumentum, from instruo, to prepare; that which is prepared.]

1. A tool; that by which work is performed or any thing is effected; as a knife, a hammer, a saw, a plow, etc. Swords, muskets and cannon are instruments of destruction. A telescope is an astronomical instrument

2. That which is subservient to the execution of a plan or purpose, or to the production of any effect; means used or contributing to an effect; applicable to persons or things. Bad men are often instruments of ruin to others. The distribution of the Scriptures may be the instrument of a vastly extensive reformation in morals and religion.

3. An artificial machine or body constructed for yielding harmonious sounds; as an organ, a harpsichord, a violin, or flute, etc., which are called musical instruments, or instruments of music.

4. In law, a writing containing the terms of a contract, as a deed of conveyance, a grant, a patent, an indenture, etc.; in general, a writing by which some fact is recorded for evidence, or some right conveyed.

5. A person who acts for another, or is employed by another for a special purpose, and if the purpose is dishonorable, the term implies degradation or meanness.

Instrumental

INSTRUMENT'AL, adjective Conducive as an instrument or means to some end; contributing aid; serving to promote or effect an object; helpful. The press has been instrumental in enlarging the bounds of knowledge.

1. Pertaining to instruments; made by instruments; as instrumental music, distinguished form vocal music, which is made by the human voice.

Instrumentality

INSTRUMENTAL'ITY, noun Subordinate or auxiliary agency; agency of any thing as means to an end; as the instrumentality of second causes.

Instrumentally

INSTRUMENT'ALLY, adverb By way of an instrument; in the nature of an instrument; as means to an end.

1. With instruments of music.

Instrumentalness

INSTRUMENT'ALNESS, noun Usefulness, as of means to an end; instrumentality.

Instyle

INSTYLE, verb transitive [in and style.] To call; to denominate. [Not used.]

Insuavity

INSUAV'ITY, noun [Latin insuavitas.] Unpleasantness.

Insubjection

INSUBJEC'TION, noun State of disobedience to government.

Insubmission

INSUBMIS'SION, noun Defect of submission; disobedience.

Insubordinate

INSUBORD'INATE, adjective Not submitting to authority.

Insubordination

INSUBORDINA'TION, noun Want of subordination; disorder; disobedience to lawful authority.

Insubstantial

INSUBSTAN'TIAL, adjective Unsubstantial; not real.

Insuccation

INSUCCA'TION, noun [Latin insucco, to moisten; in and succus, juice.]

The act of soaking or moistening; maceration; solution in the juice of herbs.

Insufferable

INSUF'FERABLE, adjective [in and sufferable.]

1. Intolerable; that cannot be borne or endured; as insufferable heat, cold or pain.

2. That cannot be permitted or tolerated.

Our wrongs are insufferable

3. Detestable; contemptible; disgusting beyond endurance.

A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff--

Insufferably

INSUF'FERABLY, adverb To a degree beyond endurance; as a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.

Insufficiency

INSUFFI'CIENCY, noun [in and sufficiency.]

1. Inadequateness; want of sufficiency; deficiency; as an insufficiency of provisions to supply the garrison.

2. Inadequacy of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as the insufficiency of a man for an office.

3. Want of the requisite strength, value or force; defect.

The insufficiency of the light of nature is supplied by the light of Scripture.

Insufficient

INSUFFI'CIENT, adjective [in and sufficient.]

1. Not sufficient; inadequate to any need, use or purpose. The provisions are insufficient in quantity and defective in quality.

2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, or skill; incapable; unfit; as a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.

Insufficiently

INSUFFI'CIENTLY, adverb With want of sufficiency; with want of proper ability or skill; inadequately.

Insufflation

INSUFFLA'TION, noun [Latin in and sufflo, to blow.]

1. The act of breathing on.

2. The act of blowing a substance into a cavity of the body.

Insuitable

INSU'ITABLE, adjective Unsuitable. [Little used.]

Insular

IN'SULAR, adjective [Latin insularis, from insula, an isle.]

Belonging to an isle; surrounded by water; as an insular situation.

IN'SULAR, noun One who dwells in an isle.

Insulate

IN'SULATE, verb transitive [Latin insula, an isle.] To place in a detached situation, or in a state to have no communication with surrounding objects.

1. In architecture, to set a column alone or not contiguous to a wall.

2. In electrical experiments, to place on a non-conducting substance, or in a situation to prevent communication with the earth.

3. To make an isle. [Little used.]

Insulated

IN'SULATED, participle passive or adjective Standing by itself; not being contiguous to other bodies; as an insulated house or column.

1. In electrical experiments, placed on an electric or non-conducting substance; not communicating with the earth.

Insulating

IN'SULATING, participle present tense Setting in a detached position. In electrical experiments, preventing communication by the interposition of an electric body.

Insulation

INSULA'TION, noun The act of insulating; the state of being detached from other objects.

1. In electrical experiments, that state in which the communication of electrical fluid is prevented by the interposition of an electric body.

Insulator

IN'SULATOR, noun In electrical experiments, the substance or body that insulates, or interrupts the communication of electricity to surrounding objects; a non-conductor or electric.

Insulse

INSULSE, adjective insuls'. [Latin insulsus.] Dull; insipid. [Not used.]

Insult

IN'SULT, noun [Latin insultus, from insilio, to leap on; in and salio, to leap.]

1. The act of leaping on. [Little used.]

2. Any gross abuse offered to another, either by words or actions; act or speech of insolence or contempt.

The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief.

INSULT', verb transitive [Latin insulto. See the Noun.]

To treat with gross abuse, insolence or contempt, by words or actions; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.

To insult over, to triumph over with insolence and contempt.

INSULT', verb intransitive To behave with insolent triumph.

Insultation

INSULTA'TION, noun The act of insulting; abusive treatment.

Insulted

INSULT'ED, participle passive Abused or treated with insolence and contempt.

Insulter

INSULT'ER, noun One who insults.

Insulting

INSULT'ING, participle present tense Treating with insolence or contempt.

Insultingly

INSULT'INGLY, adverb With insolent contempt; with contemptuous triumph.

Insume

INSU'ME, verb transitive [Latin insumo.] To take in. [Not used.]

Insuperability

INSUPERABIL'ITY, noun [from insuperable.]

The quality of being insuperable. [Little used.]

Insuperable

INSU'PERABLE, adjective [Latin insuperabilis; in and superabilis, from supero, to overcome or surpass.]

1. That cannot be overcome or surmounted; insurmountable; as insuperable difficulties, objections or obstacles.

2. That cannot be passed over.

And middle natures, how they long to join,

Yet never pass th' insuperable line.

The latter application is unusual. This word is rarely or never used in reference to any enemy, in the sense of invincible or unconquerable. We do not say that troops or enemies are insuperable; but the word is applied chiefly to difficulties, objections, obstacles or impediments.

Insuperableness

INSU'PERABLENESS, noun The quality of being insuperable or insurmountable.

Insuperably

INSU'PERABLY, adverb In a manner or degree not to be overcome; insurmountably.

Insupportable

INSUPPORTABLE, adjective

1. That cannot be supported or borne; as the weight or burden is insupportable

2. That cannot be borne or endured; insufferable; intolerable. We say of heat or cold, insult, indignity or disgrace, it is insupportable

Insupportableness

INSUPPORTABLENESS, noun The quality of being insupportable; insufferableness; the state of being beyond endurance.

Insupportably

INSUPPORTABLY, adverb In a manner or degree that cannot be supported or endured.

Insuppressible

INSUPPRESS'IBLE, adjective Not to be suppressed or concealed.

Insuppressive

INSUPPRESS'IVE, adjective Not to be suppressed.

Insurable

INSU'RABLE, adjective [from insure.] That may be insured against loss or damage; proper to be insured.

The French law annuls the latter policies so far as they exceed the insurable interest which remained in the insured at the time of the subscription thereof.

Insurance

INSU'RANCE, noun [from insure.] The act of insuring or assuring against loss or damage; or a contract by which one engages for a stipulated consideration or premium per cent to make up a loss which another may sustain. insurance is usually made on goods or property exposed to uncommon hazard, or on lives.

Insurance company, a company or corporation whose business is to insure against loss or damage.

Insurancer

INSU'RANCER, noun An underwriter. [Not in use.]

Insure

INSU'RE, verb transitive inshu're. [in and sure.] To make sure or secure; to

contract or covenant for a consideration to secure a person against loss; or to engage to indemnify another for the loss of any specified property, at a certain stipulated rate per cent, called a premium. The property usually insured is such as is exposed to extraordinary hazard. Thus the merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; houses are insured against fire; sometimes hazardous debts ar insured, and sometimes lives.

INSU'RE, verb intransitive To underwrite; to practice making insurance. This company insures at 3 per cent, or at a low premium.

Insured

INSU'RED, participle passive Made sure; assured; secured against loss.

Insurer

INSU'RER, noun One who insures; the person who contracts to pay the losses of another for a premium; an underwriter.

Insurgent

INSURG'ENT, adjective [Latin insurgens; in and surgo, to rise.]in opposition to lawful civil or political authority; as insurgent chiefs.

INSURG'ENT, noun A person who rises in opposition to civil or political authority; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws. [See Insurrection.] An insurgent differs from a rebel. The insurgent opposes the execution of a particular law or laws; the rebel attempts to overthrow or change the government, or he revolts and attempts to place his country under another jurisdiction. All rebels are insurgents, but all insurgents are not rebels.

Insuring

INSU'RING, participle present tense Making secure; assuring against loss; engaging to indemnify for losses.

Insurmountable

INSURMOUNT'ABLE, adjective

1. Insuperable; that cannot be surmounted or overcome; as an insurmountable difficulty, obstacle or impedient.

2. Not to be surmounted; not to be passed by ascending; as an insurmountable wall or rampart.

Insurmountably

INSURMOUNT'ABLY, adverb In a manner or degree not to be overcome.

Insurrection

INSURREC'TION, noun [Latin insurgo; in and surgo, to rise.]

1. A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of a law in a city or state. It is equivalent to sedition, except that sedition expresses a less extensive rising of citizens. It differs from rebellion, for the latter expresses a revolt, or an attempt to overthrow the government, to establish a different one or to place the country under another jurisdiction. It differs from mutiny, as it respects the civil or political government; whereas a mutiny is an open opposition to law in the army or navy. insurrection is however used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion.

It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra 4:19.

2. A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. [Little used.]

Insurrectional

INSURREC'TIONAL, adjective Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection.

Insurrectionary

INSURREC'TIONARY, adjective Pertaining or suitable to insurrection.

Insusceptibility

INSUSCEPTIBIL'ITY, noun [from insusceptible.] Want of susceptibility, or capacity to feel or perceive.

Insusceptible

INSUSCEPT'IBLE, adjective [in and susceptible.]

1. Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected or impressed; as a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity.

2. Not capable of receiving or admitting.

Insusurration

INSUSURRA'TION, noun [Latin insusurro.] The act of whispering into something.

Intactable

INTACT'ABLE, adjective [Latin intactum; in and tactum, tango, to touch.]perceptible to the touch.

Intagliated

INTAGLIATED, adjective intal'yated. [See Intaglio.]

Engraved or stamped on.

Intaglio

INTAGLIO, noun intal'yo. Literally, a cutting or engraving; hence, any thing engraved, or a precious stone with a head or an inscription engraved on it.

Intangibility

INTANGIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being intangible.

Intangible

INTANG'IBLE, adjective [in and tangible.] That cannot or may not be touched.

1. Not perceptible to the touch.

A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible being.

Intangibleness

INTAN'GIBLENESS

INTASTABLE, adjective [in and tastable, taste.] That cannot be tasted; that cannot affect the organs of taste.

Intastable

INTASTABLE, a. [in and tastable, taste.] That cannot be tasted; that cannot affect the organs of taste.

Integer

IN'TEGER, noun [Latin See Entire.] The whole of any thing; particularly, in arithmetic, a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction. Thus in the number 54.7, in decimal arithmetic, 54 is an integer and 7 a fraction, or seven tenths of a unit.

Integral

IN'TEGRAL, adjective Whole; entire.

A local motion keepeth bodies integral

1. Making part of a whole, or necessary to make a whole.

2. Not fractional.

3. Uninjured; complete; not defective.

IN'TEGRAL, noun A whole; an entire thing.

Integrality

INTEGRAL'ITY, noun Entireness. [Not used.]

Integrally

IN'TEGRALLY, adverb Wholly; completely.

Integrant

IN'TEGRANT, adjective Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing.

Integrant particles of bodies, are those into which bodies are reduced by solution or mechanical division, as distinct from elementary particles.

Integrate

IN'TEGRATE, verb transitive [Latin integro.] To renew; to restore; to perfect; to make a thing entire.

Integrated

IN'TEGRATED, participle passive Made entire.

Integration

INTEGRA'TION, noun The act of making entire.

Integrity

INTEG'RITY, noun [Latin integritas, from integer.]

1. Wholeness; entireness; unbroken state. The constitution of the U.States guaranties to each state the integrity of its territories. The contracting parties guarantied the integrity of the empire.

2. The entire, unimpaired state of any thing, particularly of the mind; moral soundness or purity; incorruptness; uprightness; honesty. integrity comprehends the whole moral character, but has a special reference to uprightness in mutual dealings, transfers of property, and agencies for others.

The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature, before which the pomp of eastern magnificence and the splendor of conquest are odious as well as perishable.

3. Purity; genuine, unadulterated, unimpaired state; as the integrity of language.

Integumation

INTEGUMA'TION, noun [Latin intego, to cover.]

That part of physiology, which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.

Integument

INTEG'UMENT, noun [Latin integumentum, intego, to cover; in and tego. See Deck.] That which naturally invests or covers another thing; but appropriately and chiefly, in anatomy, a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular part. The skin of seeds and the shells of crustaceous animals are denominated integuments.

Intellect

IN'TELLECT, noun [Latin intellectus, from intelligo, to understand. See Intelligence.] That faculty of the human soul or mind, which receives or comprehends the ideas communicated to it by the senses or by perception, or by other means; the faculty of thinking; otherwise called the understanding. A clear intellect receives and entertains the same ideas which another communicates with perspicuity.

Intellection

INTELLEC'TION, noun [Latin intellectio, from intelligo.]

The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas.

Intellective

INTELLECT'IVE, adjective Having power to understand.

1. Produced by the understanding.

2. To be perceived by the understanding, not by the senses.

Intellectual

INTELLECT'UAL, adjective

1. Relating to the intellect or understanding; belonging to the mind; performed by the understanding; mental; as intellectual power or operations.

2. Ideal; perceived by the intellect; existing in the understanding; as an intellectual scene.

3. Having the power of understanding; as an intellectual being.

4. Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as intellectual philosophy, now sometimes called mental philosophy.

INTELLECT'UAL, noun The intellect or understanding. [Little used.]

Intellectualist

INTELLECT'UALIST, noun One who overrates the understanding.

Intellectuality

INTELLECTUAL'ITY, noun The state of intellectual power. [Not used.]

Intellectually

INTELLECT'UALLY, adverb By means of the understanding.

Intelligence

INTEL'LIGENCE, noun [Latin intelligentia, from intelligo, to understand. This verb is probably composed of in, inter, or intus, within, and lego to collect. The primary sense of understand is generally to take or hold, as we say, to take one's ideas or meaning.]

1. Understanding; skill.

2. Notice; information communicated; an account of things distant or before unknown. intelligence may be transmitted by messengers, by letters, by signals or by telegraphs.

3. Commerce of acquaintance; terms of intercourse. Good intelligence between men is harmony. So we say, there is a good understanding between persons, when they have the same views, or are free from discord.

4. A spiritual being; as a created intelligence It is believed that the universe is peopled with innumerable superior intelligences.

INTEL'LIGENCE, verb transitive To inform; to instruct. [Little used.]

Intelligence-Offic

INTEL'LIGENCE-OFFICE, n. An office or place where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.

Intelligenced

INTEL'LIGENCED, participle passive Informed; instructed. [Little used.]

Intelligencer

INTEL'LIGENCER, noun One who sends or conveys intelligence; one who gives notice of private or distant transactions; a messenger.

1. A public paper; a newspaper.

Intelligencing

INTEL'LIGENCING, participle present tense or adjective Giving or conveying notice to from a distance.

Intelligent

INTEL'LIGENT, adjective [Latin intelligens.]

1. Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason. Man is an intelligent being.

2. Knowing; understanding; well informed; skilled; as an intelligent officer; an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; sometimes followed by of; as intelligent of seasons.

3. Giving information. [Not used nor proper.]

Intelligential

INTELLIGEN'TIAL, adjective Consisting of unbodied mind.

Food alike those pure

Intelligential substances require.

1. Intellectual; exercising understanding.

Intelligibility

INTELLIGIBIL'ITY

INTEL'LIGIBLE, adjective [Latin intelligibilis.] That may be understood or comprehended; as an intelligible account. The rules of human duty are intelligible to minds of the smallest capacity.

Intelligible

INTEL'LIGIBLE, a. [L. intelligibilis.] That may be understood or comprehended; as an intelligible account. The rules of human duty are intelligible to minds of the smallest capacity.

Intelligibleness

INTEL'LIGIBLENESS, noun [from intelligible.] The quality of state of being intelligible; the possibility of being understood.

Intelligibly

INTEL'LIGIBLY, adverb In a manner to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly

Intemerate

INTEM'ERATE, adjective [Latin intemeratus.] Pure; undefiled. [Not in use.]

Intemerateness

INTEM'ERATENESS, noun State of being unpolluted. [Not used.]

Intemperament

INTEM'PERAMENT, noun [in and temperament.]

A bad state or constitution; as the intemperament of an ulcerated part.

Intemperance

INTEM'PERANCE, noun [Latin intemperantia.]

1. In a general sense, want of moderation or due restraint; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any exertion of body or mind, or any indulgence of appetites or passions which is injurious to the person or contrary to morality; as intemperance in study or in labor, in eating or drinking, or in any other gratification. Hence, appropriately and emphatically,

2. Habitual indulgence in drinking spirituous liquors, with or without intoxication.

Should a foreign army land on our shores, to levy such a tax upon us as intemperance levies--no mortal power could resist the swelling tide of indignation that would overwhelm it.

Intemperate

INTEM'PERATE, adjective [Latin intemperatus; in and temperatus, from tempero, to moderate or restrain.]

1. Not moderate or restrained within due limits; indulging to excess any appetite or passion, either habitually or in a particular instance; immoderate in enjoyment or exertion. A man may be intemperate in passion, intemperate in labor, intemperate in study or zeal. Hence by customary application, intemperate denotes indulging to excess in the use of food or drink, but particularly in the use of spirituous liquors. Hence,

2. Addicted to an excessive or habitual use of spirituous liquors.

3. Passionate; ungovernable.

4. Excessive; exceeding the convenient mean or degree; as an intemperate climate. The weather may be rendered intemperate by violent winds, rain or snow, or by excessive cold or heat.

INTEM'PERATE, verb transitive To disorder. [Not in use.]

Intemperately

INTEM'PERATELY, adverb With excessive indulgence of appetite or passion; with undue exertion; immoderately; excessively.

Intemperateness

INTEM'PERATENESS, noun Want of moderation; excessive degree of indulgence; as the intemperateness of appetite or passion.

1. Immoderate degree of any quality in the weather, as in cold, heat or storms.

Intemperature

INTEM'PERATURE, noun Excess of some quality.

Intempestive

INTEMPEST'IVE, adjective [Latin intempestivus.] Untimely. [Not used.]

Intempestively

INTEMPEST'IVELY, adverb Unseasonably. [Not used.]

Intempestivity

INTEMPESTIV'ITY, noun Untimeliness. [Not used.]

Intenable

INTEN'ABLE, adjective [in and tenable.] That cannot be held or maintained; that is not defensible; as an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress.

[Untenable, though not more proper, is more generally used.]

Intend

INTEND', verb transitive [Latin intendo; in and tendo, to stretch or strain, from teneo; Gr. to stretch.]

1. To stretch; to strain; to extend; to distend.

By this the lungs are intended or remitted.

[This literal sense is now uncommon.]

2. To mean; to design; to purpose, that is, to stretch or set forward in mind. [This is now the usual sense.]

For they intended evil against thee. Psalms 21:11.

3. To regard; to fix the mind on; to attend; to take care of.

Having no children, she did with singular care and tenderness intend the education of Phillip.

[This use of the word is now obsolete. We now use tend and superintend or regard.]

4. To enforce; to make intense.

Intendant

INTEND'ANT, noun [Latin intendo.]

1. One who has the charge, oversight, direction or management of some public business; as an intendant of marine; as intendant of finance; a word much used in France, and sometimes in England and America, but we generally use in lieu of it superintendent.

2. In Charleston, S. Carolina, the mayor or chief municipal officer of the city.

Intended

INTEND'ED, participle passive Designed; purposed; as, the insult was intended

1. Stretched; made intense. [Little used.]