And his fon's rage, or the old king's inconftancy, of priests is punishable by the ordinary, by im prifonment, &c. 1 Hen. VII. cap. 4. Denham. -Irrefolution on the schemes of life which offer to our choice, and inconftancy in purfuing them, are the greatest caufes of all our unhappiness. Addifon. 2. Diverfity; diffimilitude.-As much inconftancy and confufion is there in their mixtures or combinations; for it is rare to find any of them pure and unmixt. Woodward. * INCONSTANT. adj. \inconftant, French; inconftans, Latin.] 1. Not firm in refolution; not fteady in affection; various of inclination; want ing perfeverance: of perfons.-He is fo naturally inconftant, that I marvel his foul finds not fome way to kill his body. Sidney. 2. Changeable; mutable; variable: of things. O fwear not by the moon, th' inconftant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Left that thy love prove likewife variable. Shak. * INCONSUMABLE. adj. [in and confume.] Not to be wasted.-By art were weaved napkins, fhirts, and coats, inconsumable by fire, and wherein they burnt the bodies of kings. Brown. INCONSUMPTIBLE. adj. [in and confump tus, Lat.] Not to be spent ; not to be brought to an end; not to be deftroyed by fire. This feems a more elegant word than inconfumable.-Before I give any answer to this objection of pretended in confumptible lights, I would gladly fee the effect undoubtedly proved. Digby. * INCONTESTABLE. adj. [inconteftable, Fr. in and conteft.] Not to be difputed; not admitting debate; uncontrovertible.-Our own being furnishes us with an evident and inconteftable proof of a Deity; and I believe no body can avoid the cogency of it, who will carefully attend to it. Locke. * İNCONTESTABLY. adv. [from inconteftable.] Indifputably; uncontrovertibly. INCONTIGUOUS. adj. [in and contiguous.] Not touching each other; not joined together.They seemed part of small bracelets, confifting of equally little incontiguous beads. Boyle. (1.) INCONTINENCE. INCONTINENCY. n. f. [incontinentia, Latin; in and continence.] Inability to restrain the appetites; unchastity.The cognizance of her incontinency Is this; the hath bought the name of whore But beauty, like the fair Hefperian tree, I pleas'd myself, I fhunu'd incontinence, (2.) INCONTINENCE. See CHASTITY and CON TINENCE. (3.) INCONTINENCE, in the eye of the law, is of divers kinds; as in the cafe of getting baftards, bigamy, rapes, fodomy, or buggery; all of which are punished by fatute. Stat. 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 6. 48 Eliz. cap. 7. Jac. I. cap. 11. Incontinency (4) INCONTINENCE, in medicine, fignifies an inability in any of the organs to retain what should not be difcharged without the concurrence of the will. It is most frequently used with regard to a DIABETES, or an involuntary discharge of urine. See MEDICINE, Index. * INCONTINENT. adj. [incontinens, Latin ; in and continent.] 1. Unchafte; indulging unlawful pleasure.-In these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage. Shak.-Men fhall be lovers of their own felves, falfe accufers, incontinent, fierce. 2 Tim. iii. 3. 2 Shunning delay; immediate. This is a meaning now obfolete. They ran towards the far rebounded noise, To weet what wight fo loudly did lament; Unto the place they came incontinent. Fairy 2 Come, mourn with me for what I do lament, And put on fullen black incontinent. Shak Shak He fays he will return incontinent. * INCONTINENTLY. adv.[from incontinent. 1. Unchaftely; without reftraint of the appetites 2. Immediately; at once. An obfolete fenie Spenfer.-The caufe of this war is no other than that we will not incontinently submit ourselves to our neighbours. Hayward.-Incontinently I left Madrid, and have been dogged and waylaid thro feveral nations. Arbuthnot and Pope. * INCONTROVERTIBLE. adj. [in and controvertible.] Indifputable; not to be difputed. * INCONTROVERTIBLY. adv. [from incontrovertible.] To a degree beyond controverfy or difpute.-The Hebrew is incontrovertibly the pri mitive and fureft text to rely upon; and to pre ferve the fame uncorrupt, there hath been used the highest caution humanity could invent. Brown INCONVENIENCE. INCONVENIENCY... inconvenient French.] 1. Unfit nefs; inexpedience.-They plead againft the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness of popish app3. rel; and againft the inconvenience, not the unlaw. fuluefs of ceremonies in burial. Hooker. 2. Dif advantage; caufe of uneafinefs; difficulty.-There is a place upon the top of mount Athos above al clouds of rain, or other inconvenience. Rale. Hif -Man is liable to a great many inconveniences every moment, and is continually unfecure even of life itself. Tillotson.-The inconvenience of old age makes him incapable of corporal pleasures. Dryd Would not quick nefs of fenfation be an inconveni ence to an animal, that must lie ftill where chance has once placed it? Locke.-Confider the dispropor tion between the worst inconveniences that attend incompliance with men, and the eternal difplea fure of God. Rogers. We are freed from many inconveniences, and we enjoy feveral advantages Atterbury.-The things of another world, being diftaut, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconveniency, we must frequently revolve thei certainty and importance. Atterbury. INCONVENIENT. adj. (inconvenient, Fr in and conveniens, Lat.] 1. Incommodious; dif advantageous.-They lean to their old cuftoms though they be more unjuft, and more inconveni ent for the common people. Spenfer on Ireland. He knows that to be inconvenient, which we safe. ties so marshal the way, hard at hand comes the ly think convenient for us. Smalridge. 2. Unfit; master and, main exercise, the incorporate concluinexpedient.-We are not to look that the church fion. Shakespeare's Othello. should change her publick laws, although it chance By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, that for some particular men the fame be found 'Till holy church incorporate two in one. Shak. inconvenient, especially when there may be other Upon my knees femedy against particular inconveniences. Hooker. I charm you, by that great vow * INCONVENIENTLY, adv. (from inconve- Which did incorporate and make us one. Shak. nient.] 1. Unfitly; incommodiously. 2. Unsea. Death and I sonably. Ainsworth. Are found eternal, and incorporate both. Milton. IŃCONVERSABLE. adj. [in and conversa- 3. To form into a corporation or body politick. ble.] Incommunicative; ill qualified by temper In this sense they say, in Scotland, the incorporate for conversation ; unsocial.--He is a person very trades in any community. The apostle affirmeth inconversable. More. plainly of all men christian, that be they Jews or * INCONVERTIBLE. adj. [in and converti- Gentiles, bond or free, they are all incorporated ble.] Not transmutable ; incapable of change. It into one company, they all make but one body. entereth not the veins, but taketh leave of the per- Hooker. The same is incorporated with a majoral. meant parts, and accompanieth the inconvertible ty, and nameth burgesses to parliament. Carew. portion unto the siege. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 4. To unite; to affociate. * INCONVINCIBLE. adj. [in and convincible.) It is Casca, one incorporate Not to be convinced; not capable of conviction. To our attempts. Shakespeare's Juliás Casar, INCONVINCIBLY. adv. (from inconvinci. Your most grave belly was deliberate, ble.) Without admitting conviction. It is inju. Not rash, like his accusers, and thus answer'd; rious unto knowledge obftinately and inconvincibly True is it, my incorporate friends, quoth he, to fide with any one. Brown's Vulgar Errours. That I receive the general food at first, INCONY. adj. [perhaps from in and conn, to Which you do live upon. Shakesp. Coriolanus. know.) 1. Unlearned; artless. This fenfe is un. - The Romans did not subdue a country to put certain. 2. Id Scotland it denotes mischievously the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorpounlucky: as, he's an incony fellow. This seems rate them into their own community. Addison. 5. to be the meaning of Shakespeare. To work into another mals.-All this learning is O my troth, most sweet jests, moft incony ignoble and mechanical among them, and the Con. vulgar wit, futian only essential and incorporate in their goWhen it comes fo smoothly off. Shakesp. vernment. Temple. 6. To embody; to give a INCORONATA, a town of Naples, in the material form.-Courtesy, that seemed incorporaprovince of Capitanata ; 6 miles N. of Ascoli. ted in his heart, would not be persuaded by dan * INCORPORAL. adj. [in and corporal.] Im. ger to offer any offence. Șidney.-The idolaters, material; diftinct from matter ; distinct from body, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed Why do'st thou bend thine eye on vacancy, fome fpirit to be incorporated therein, and so to And with th' incorporal air do'st hold discourse? make together with it a person ft to receive wor. Shakespeare. ship. Stilling fleet. -Learned men have not resolved us whether light (2.) * TO INCORPORATE, V. n. 1. To unite with be corporal or incorporal; corpora: they say it can something else. It is commonly followed by with. not be, because then it would neither pierce the --Painters colours and ashes do better incorporate air, nor solid diaphonous bodies, and yet every with oil. Bacon's Natural History: It is not uniday we see the air illightened : incorporal it cannot versally true, that acid salts and oils will not inbe, because sometimes it affecteth the light with corporate or mingle. Bogle. offence. Raleigb. Thy soul * INCORPORALITY. n. S. [incorporalité, Fr. In real darkness of the body dwells, from incorporal.] Immaterialness; distinctness Shut out from outward light, from body. . Without matter ; immaterially. prepossessed with any former notions, and so easily * INCORPORATE. adj. [in and corporate.] gains upon the affent, grows up with it, and inImmaterial; unbodied. This is now difused to corporates into it. South. avoid confusion, incorporate being rather used of (1.) INCORPORATION. n. f. [incorporathings mingled.-Mosesforbore to speak of angels, tion, Fr. from incorporate.] 1. Union of divers inand things iaviGble and incorporate. Raleigh. gredients in one mass.- Make proof of the incore (1.) * To INCORPORATE. v. a. Lincorporer, poration of iron with flint; for if it can be incorFr. 1. To mingle different ingredients so as they porated without over great charge, the cheapness fall make one mass.--A fifteenth part of silver, of the Nint doth make the compound ftuff profit, incorporate with gold, will not be recovered, ex- able. Bacon.-This, with some additional, may cept you put a greater quantity of filver to draw further the intrinsick incorporation. Bacon. 2. Forto it the less. Bacon's Natural History. niation of a body politick. 3. Adoption; union; Who the swelling clouds in bladders ties, association; with into.-In him we actually are, To mollify the stubborn çlods with rain, by our actual incorporation into that society which And scatter'd dust incorporate again? Sandys. hath him for their head. Hooker. 2. To conjoin inseparably, as one body.-Vil- (2.) INCORPORATION, in pharmacy, is much lanous thoughts, Roderigo, when these mutuali. the same as IMPASTATION, being a reduction of dry dry fubftances to the confiftence of a pafte, by the admixture of fome fluid: thus pills, boles, torches, and plafters, are made by incorporation. An other incorporation is when things of different confiftencies are by digeftion reduced to one common confiftence. (3.) INCORPORATION, or BODY CORPORATE. See CORPORATION, § I.-VIII. (4.) INCORPORATIONS, or TRADES, in the polity of the Royal Boroughs of Scotland, are Societies of Tradefmen or Artifts, incorporated by royal charter, and endowed with certain exclufive privileges, agreeable to the nature of their refpective profeffions. Their number varies in the different Royal Boroughs, and they have more or lefs fhare in the government of their respective burghs according to the conflitution of each, Thus there are 14 incorporations in the metropolis; who choose their own convener, and each of which elects its own prefes or deacon; (See CONVENER, and DEACON, 2.) who thus become members of the town council of Edinburgh; and together with the two trades counsellors, conititute nearly the half of that body. See EDINBURGH, 23. There are alfo 14 incorporations in Glasgow; (See GLASGOW, § 5.) 9 in DUNDEE, 7 in DUMFRIES, and 7 in PERTH, &C. See thefe articles. (1.) * INCORPOREAL. adj. [incorporalis, Lat. incorporel, Fr. in and corporeal.] Immaterial; unbodied. It is a virtue which may be called incorporeal and immateriate, whereof there be in nature but few. Bacon. Thus incorporeal fp'rits to th' fmalleft forms Reduc'd their fhapes immenfe. Milton. -Senfe and perception muft neceffarily proceed from fome incorporeal fubftance within us. Bent. (2.) INCORPOREAL. See METAPHYSICS. INCORPOREALLY: adv. [from incorporeal.] Immaterially; without body.-Hearing ftriketh the fpirits more immediately than the other fenfes, and more incorporeally than the fmelling. Bacon. * INCORPORIETY. n. . Lin and corporiety.] Immateriality; diftinctnefs from body. *To INCORPSE. v. a. [in and corp/e.] To incorporate; to unite into one body. Not used. He grew into his feat, As he had been incorps'd and demy natur'd Shak. INCORRECT. adj. [in and corre&.] Not nicely finished; not exact; inaccurate; full of faults. The piece you think is incorred; why take it. I'm all fubmiffion; what you'd have it make it. Pope. * INCORRECTLY. adv. [from incorrect.] Inaccurately; not exactly. * INCORRECTNESS. n. f. [in and correctness.] Innaccuracy: want of exactness. * INCORRIGIBLE. adj. [incorrigible, Fr. in and corrigible.] 1. Bad beyond correction; depraved beyond amendment by any means; erroneous beyond hope of inftruction: of perfons. Provok'd by thofe incorrigible fools, I left declaiming in pedantick fchools. Dryden. -Whilft we are incorrigible, God may in vengeance continue to chaftile us with the judgment of war. Smalridge.-The most violent party men are fuch as have difcovered leaft fenfe of religion or morality; and when fuch are laid afide, as f be found incorrigible, it will be no difficulty reconcile the reft. Swift. 2. Not capable amendment of things.-The lofs is many tin irrecoverable, and the inconvenience incorrigi More's Divine Dialogues.-What are their though of things, but variety of incorrigible errors. L'E * INCORRIGIBLENESS. n. s. [from inc rigible.] Hopeless depravity; badness beyond means of amendment.-What we call peniten becomes a fad atteftation of our incorrigiblene Decay of Piety.-I would not have chiding ufe much lefs blows, 'till obftinacy and incorrigib nefs make it abfolutely neceffary. Locke. *INCORRIGIBLÝ. [from incorrigible.] To degree of depravity beyond all means of amen ment. Some men appear incorrigibly mad, They cleanliness and company renounce. Re * INCORRUPT. adj. [in and corruptu * INCORRUPTED.) Latin; incorrumpu, Fr 1. Free from foulnefs or depravation.-Sin, that first Diftemper'd all things, and, of incorrupt, Milter 2. Pure of manners; honeft; good. It is particu larly applied to a mind above the power of bribe: INCORRUPTIBILES, INCORRUPTIBLES, the name of à fect which sprang out of the EUTYCHI ANS. Their diftinguishing tenet was, that the body of Jefus Chrift was incorruptible; by which they meant, that after and from the time where in he was formed in the womb of his holy mother he was not fufceptible of any change or altern tion; not even of any natural and innocent palfions, as of hunger, thirft, &c. fo that he eat without any occafion, before his death, as well as after his refurrection. And hence they took their name * INCORRUPTIBILITY.nf. [incorruptibilité, Fr. from incorruptible.] Infufceptibility of corrup tion; incapacity of decay.-Philo, in his book the world's incorruptibility, allegeth the verses a Greek tragick poet. Hake will * INCORRUPTIBLE. adj. [incorruptible, Fr. in and corruptible.] Not capable of corruption; not admitting decay.— Milton In fuch abundance lies our choice, As leaves a great store of fruit untouch'd, Still hanging incorruptible. -Our bodies fhall be changed into incorruptibl and immortal fubftances, our fouls be entertained with the moft ravishing objects, and both conti nue happy throughout all eternity. Wake. * INCORRUPTION. n. f. [incorruption, Fr. and corruption. Incapacity of corruption.-So all fo is the refurrection of the dead: it is fown corruption, it is raifed in incorruption. 1 Cor. * INCORRUPTNESS. n. f. [in and corrupt 1. Purity of manners; honefty; integrity.-Pro bity of mind, integrity, and incorruptness of man ners, is preferable to fine parts and fubtile fpecu lations. Woodward. 2. Freedom from decay degeneration. TO INCRASSATE. v. a. [in and craffus, Lat To thicken; the contrary to attenuate.-If the cork be too light to fink under the furface, the body of water may be attenuated with fpirits wine; if too heavy, it may be incraffated with fall tait. Brown.-Acids diffolve or attenuate, alka- That as the wound the paflion might increase. lies precipitate or incrassate. Newton.-Acids, such Prior. as are austere, as unripe fruits, produce too great 2. To be fertile.—Filhes are more numerous or a ftricture of the fibres, incrasate and coagulaté increofing than beasts or birds, as appears by their fluids ; from whence pains and rheumatism. Ar- numerous fpawn. Hale. but brot. * INCREASER, n. f. [from increase.] He who * INCRASSATION. 1. f. [from incrasate.] increases. 1. The act of thickening. 2. The state of growing * INCREATED. adj. Not created.-Since the thick.-Nothing doth conglaciate but water; for desire is infinite, nothing but the absolute and inthe determination of quicksilver is fixation, that of created Infinite can ad uately fill it. Cheyne. milkcoagulation,and that of oil incrassation.Brown. * INCREDIBILITY. n. j. incredibilité, Fr. * INCRASSATIVE. n. f. [from incrassate.] The quality of surpasling belief.-- For objects of inHaving the quality of thickening.-The two lat- credibility, none are foremoved from all appearance ter indicate reftringents to stench, and incralja- of truth as those of Corneille's Andromede. Drgd. tives to thicken the blood. Harvey. * INCREDIBLE. adj. [incredibilis, Lat] Sur INCREASE. n. f. [from the verb.] 1. Aug- paffing belief; not to be credited.The ship Ar. mentation; the state of growing more or greater. go, that there might want no incredible thing in this For three years he liv'd with large increase fable, spoke to them. Raleigh.- Hail, bards triumphant! born in happier days, They wander through incredible to true. Granv. Whose honours with increase of ages grow, INCREDIBLENESS. n. s. (from incredible.) As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow. Quality of being not credible. Pope. * INCREDIBLY. adv. (from incredible.] In a 2. Increment; that which is added to the origi- manner not to be believed. nal stock.-Take thou no usury of him, no increase. * INCREDULITY. n. f. [incredulité, French.) Levit. 3. Produce,-The increase of the thresh- Quality of not believing; hardness of belief. He ing-floor, and the increase of the wine-press, Numb. was more large in the description of Paradise, to As Heliod fings, spread waters o'er thy field, take away all fcruple from the incredulity of future And a most juft and glad increcfe 't will yield. ages. Raleigh, Denbam. * INCREDULOUS. adj. (incrédule, Fr. incre-Those grains which grew produced an increase dulus, Latin.) Hard of belief; refusing credit.beyond expectation. Mortimer's Husandry. 4. Ge. I am not altogether incredulous but there may be neration, such candles as are made of falamander's wool, Into her womb convey sterility; being a kind of mineral which whiteneth in the Dry up in her the organs of increase, burning, and consumeth not. Bacon. And from her derogate body never spring a * INCREDULOUSNESS. n. f. [from incredubabe. Shak. lous.] Hardness of belief ; incredulity. s. Progeny.--All the increase of thy house fhall * ÎNCREMABLE. adj. [in and cremo, Lat. die in the flower of their age, Samuel. Not consumable by fire. —If from the skin of the Him young Thoasa bore, the bright increase salamander these incremable pieces are composed. Of Phorcys. Pope. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 6. The Itate of waxing or growing full orbed. * INCREMENT. n. f. (incrementum, Latin.) Used of the mood.-Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and 1. Act of growing greater.-Divers conceptions herbs, will grow soonelt, if set or cut in the in. are concerning the Nile's increment, or inundacrease of the moon. Bacon. tion. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 2. Increase; mat(1.) * TO INCREASE. v. a. [in and cresco. See ter added:- This itratum is expanded at top, serINCREASE.) To make more or greater. ving as the seminary that furniseth matter for the Hye thee from this daughter house, formation and increment of animal and vegetable Left thou increase the number of the dead. Shak. bodies. Woodward. 3. Produce. -He hath increased in Judah mourning and la-. The orchard loves to wave mentation. Sam.--I will increase the famine. Ezek. With winter winds: theloosen'droots then drink v. 16.— I will increase them with men like a flock. Large increment, earneft of happy years. Pbilips. Ezek. xxxvi.- It serves to increase that treasure, * TO INCREPATE. v. a. (increpo, Lat.] To or to preserve it. Temple. chide; to reprehend. (2.) * TO INCREASE. v. n. 1. To grow more INCREPATION. n. § [increpatio, Latin.] in number, or greater in bulk; to advance in Reprebenfion; chiding. The admonitions, fraquantity or value, or in any quality capable of ternal or paternal , of his fellow Christians, or of being more or less. - Hear and observe to do it. the governors of the church, than more pub. that it may be well with thee, and that ye may lick reprehensions and increpations. Hammond. increase mightily. Deut. vi. 3.-Profane and vain * TO INCRUST. babbling will increase unto ungodliness. 2. v.a. [incrusto, Latin; Tim.ii. * TO INCRUSTATE.} incruster, French.) To } 16.– From fifty to threescore he loses not much 'cover with an additional coat adhering to the inin fancy; and judgment, the effect of observation, ternal matter. The finer part of the wood will ftill increases. Dryden. be turned into air, and the grosser fick baked and Henry, in knots, involv'd his Emma's'name incrusate upon the sides of the vessel. Bacon's NaUpon this tree; and, as the tender mark tural History.--Some rivers bring forth spars, and Grew with the year, and widen'd with the bark; other mineral matter, so as to cover and incruft Venus had heard the virgin's soft address, the ftones. Woodward. fomething wrong, but fcarce criminal. He will in vain endeavour to reform indecency in his pupil, which he allows to himself. Locke. * INDECENT. adj. [indecent, Fr. in and decent.] Unbecoming; unfit for the ears. Characters, where obfcene words were proper in their mouths, but very indecent to be heard. Dryd.-'Till these men can prove these things, ordered by our church, to be either intrinfically unlawful or indecent, the afe of them, as established amongst us, is neceffary. South. INDECENTLY. adv. [from indecent.] With out decency; in a manner contrary to decency. INDECIDUOUS. adj. [in and deciduous.] Not falling; not shed. Ufed of trees that do not thed their leaves in winter. We find the ftatue of the fun framed with rays about the head, which were the indeciduous and unfkaken locks of Apollo. Brown. * INDECLINABLE. adj. [indeclinable, Fr. indeclinabilis, Lat.] Not varied by terminations.Pondo is an indeclinable word, and when it is joined to numbers it fignifies libra. Arbuthnot. INDECOROUS. adj. [indecorus, Lat. Indecent; unbecoming.-What can be more indecorous than for a creature to violate the commands, and trample upon the authority, of that awful Excellence to whom he owes his life? Norris. * INDECORUM. n. [Latin.] Indecency; fomething unbecoming. The foft addrefs, the caftigated grace, Are indecorums in the modern maid. Young. *INDEED. adv. (in and deed.] 1. In reality; in truth; in verity.-Yet loving indeed, and therefore conftant. Sidney.-Though such assemblies be had indeed for religion's fake, hurtful nevertheless they may prove, as well in regard of their fitness to serve the turn of heretics, and fuch as privily will venture to inftil their poison into new minds. Hooker. Some who have not deferved judgment of death, have been for their goods fake caught up and carried ftreight to the bough: a thing indeed very pitiful and horrible. Spenfer. 2. Above common rate. This ufe is emphatical. Then didst thou utter, I am yours for ever: 'Tis grace indeed. Shak. Borrows, in mean affairs, his fubjects pains; But things of weight and confequence indeed, Himfelf doth in his chamber then debate. Davies. -Such fons of Abraham, how highly foever they may have the luck to be thought of, are far from being Ifraelites indeed. South. I were a beaft, indeed, to do you wrong, I who have lov'd and honour'd you fo long. Dryden. 3. This is to be granted that. A particle of connection. This limitation, indeed, of our author, will fave thofe the labour who would look for Adam's heir amongst the race of brutes; but will very little contribute to the discovery of one next heir amongst men. Locke. Some fons indeed, fome very few we see, Who keep themfelves from this infection free. Dryden. -There is nothing in the world more generally dreaded, and yet lefs to be feared, than death: indeed, for thofe unhappy men whofe hopes terminate in this life, no wonder if the profpect of It another feems terrible and amazing. Wake. is ufed fometimes as a flight affertion or recapitu lation in a sense hardly perceptible or explicable, and though fome degree of obfcure power is perceived, might, even where it is properly enough inferted, be omitted without mifs.-I faid I thought it was confederacy between the juggler and the two fervants; though indeed I had no reason fo to think. Bacon.-There is indeed no great pleasure in vifiting thefe magazines of war, after one has feen two or three of them. Addijon. 5. It is used to note conceffion in comparisons.Against thefe, forces were prepared to the number of near one hundred fhips; not fo great of bulk indeed, but of a more nimble motion. Bacon. * INDEFATIGABLE. adj. [indefatigabilis, in and defutigo, Lat.] Unwearied; not tired; not exhaufted by labour. Who fhall spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt. Milton -The ambitious perfon muft rife early and fit up late, and pursue his defign with a constant indefatigable attendance; he must be infinitely patient and fervile. South. * INDEFATIGABLY. adv. [from indefatiga ble.] Without wearinefs.-A man indefatigabi zealous in the service of the church and state, and whofe writings have highly deserved of both Dryden. (1.) INDEFEASIBLE, adj. a term in law for what cannot be defeated or made void. See De FEASIBLE. (2.) INDEFEASIBLE RIGHT TO THE THRONE See HEREDITARY, § 5. * INDEFECTIBILITY. n. /. [from indefecti ble.] The quality of fuffering no decay; of being fubject to no defect. INDEEECTIBLE. adj. [in and defe&us, Lat. Unfailing; not liable to defect or decay. * INDEFEISIBLE. adj. indefaifible, French. Not to be cut off; not to be vacated; irrevocable So indefefible is our eftate in those joys, that, i we do not fell it in reverfion, we fhall, when onc invested, be beyond the poffibility of ill hufband ry. Decay of Piety. * INDEFENSIBLE. adj. [in and defenfus, Lat What cannot be defended or maintained.-A they extend the rule of confulting Scripture to a the actions of common life, even fo far as to th taking up of a straw, fo it is altogether falfe or i defenfible. Sanderson. * (1.) INDEFINITE. adj. [indefinitus, Lat. i defini, French. 1. Not determined; not limited not fettled.-Though a position should be wholl rejected, yet that negative is more pregnant of d rection, than an indefinite; as afhes are more g nerative than duft. Bacon-Her advancement wi left indefinite; but thus, that it should be as gre as ever any former queen of England had. Baco -Tragedy and picture are more narrowly ci cumfcribed by place and time than the epic poen the time of this laft is left indefinite. Dryde 2. Large beyond the comprehenfion of ma though not abfolutely without limits.-Thou it is not infinite, it may be indefinite; though it not boundless in itself, it may be fo to hum comprehenfion. Spec. (2.) INDEFINIT |