INTOX'ICATE, v. a. Ital. tossicare; Lat. INTOXICATION, n. s. in and toxicum. To inebriate or make drunk: a state of drunkenness. That king, being in amity with him, did so burn in hatred towards him, as to drink of the lees and dregs of Perkin's intoxication, who was every where else detected. Bacon. The more a man drinketh of the world, the more

it intoxicateth; and age doth profit rather in the powers of understanding, than in the virtues of the will and affections.

As with new wine intoxicated both,
They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel
Divinity within them breeding wings,
Wherewith to scorn the earth.

Id.

Milton.

Others, after having done fine things, yet spoil them by endeavouring to make them better; and are so intoricated with an earnest desire of being above all others, that they suffer themselves to be deceived. Dryden's Dufresnoy.

King was a name too proud for man to wear With modesty and meekness, and the crown, So dazzling in their eyes who set it on, Was sure to intoxicate the brows it bound. Cowper's Task.

At which my soul aches to think, Intoxicated with Eternity? Byron. Cain. INTOXICATION, OF Drunkenness. The ancient Lacedemonians used to make their slaves drunk to give their children an aversion and horror for the vice. The Indians hold drunkenness a species of madness; and, in their language, the same term that signifies drunkard, signifies also a mad person.

Drunkenness, by the English law, is considered as an aggravation rather than an excuse for any criminal behaviour. A drunkard,' says Sir Edward Coke, 'who is voluntarius dæmon, has no privilege thereby; but whatsoever he doth, his drunkenness doth aggravate it: nam omne crimen ebrietas et incendit et detergit.' In Greece, a law of Pittacus enacted, "that he who committed a crime when drunk should receive a double punishment; one for the crime itself, and the other for the ebriety which prompted him to commit it. The Roman law indeed made great allowances for this vice; per vinum delapsis capitalis pœna remittitur. But the law of England, considering how easy it is to counterfeit this excuse, and how weak an excuse it is, though real, will not suffer any man thus to privilege one crime by another. For the offence of drunkenness a man may be punished in the ecclesiastical court, as well as by justices of peace by statute. And by 4 Jac. I. c. 5, and 21 Jac. I. c. 7, if any person shall be convicted of drunkenness by a justice, oath of one witness, &c., he shall forfet 5s. for the first offence, to be levied by distress and sale of his goods; and, for want of a distress, shall sit in the stocks six hours: and, for the second offence, he is to be bound with two sureties in £10 each, to be of good behaviour, or to be committed. And he who is guilty of any crime, through his own voluntary drunkenness, shall be punished for it as if he had been sober. It has been held that drunkenness is a sufficient cause to remove a magistrate: and the prosecution for this offence, by the statute of 4 Jac. I. c. 5, was to be, and still may be, before justices of peace in their sessions by way of indictment, &c. Equity will not relieve against a

bond, &c., given by a man when drunk, unless the drunkenness is occasioned through the management or contrivance of him to whom the bond is given.

INTRACTABLE, adj. Fr. intraitable; INTRACTABLENESS, n. s. Latin, intractabilis. INTRACTABLY, adv. Ungovernable; furious; not to be led or restrained: obstinacy; perverseness.

To love them who love us is so natural a passion, that even the most intractable tempers obey its force. Rogers. By what means serpents, and other noxious and more intractable kinds, as well as the more innocent and useful, got together. Woodward. INTRANQUILLITY, n. s. In and tranquillity. Unquietness; want of rest.

Jactations were used for amusement, and allay in constant pains, and to relieve that intranquillity which makes men impatient of lying in their beds. Temple.

INTRANSITIVE, adj. Lat. intransitivus. In grammar. A verb intransitive is that which signifies an action not conceived as having an effect upon any object; as, curro, I run.-Clarke's Latin Grammar.

INTRANSMUTABLE, adj. In and transmutable. Unchangeable to any other substance, Some of the most experienced chemists do affirm quicksilver to be intransmutable, and therefore call it liquor æternus. Ray on the Creation. INTREASURE, v. a. In and treasure. To lay up as in a treasury.

There is a history in all men's lives Figuring the nature of the times deceased; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings he intreasured. Shakspeare. INTRENCH', n. a. & v. n. INTRENCH'ANT, adj. INTRENCH'MENT, n. s.

Fr. intrencher. To invade or encroach; to break with hollows; to fortify with a trench, which is called intrenchment. See ENTRENCHMENT. This word (intrenchant), says Dr. Johnson, which is, I believe, found only in Shakspeare, is thus explained: the intrenchant air means the air which suddenly encroaches and closes upon the space left by any body which had passed through it.-Hanmer. I believe Shakspeare intended rather to express the idea of indivisibility or invulnerableness, and derived intrenchant from in privative, and trencher to cut; intrenchant is indeed, properly, not cutting, rather than not to be cut; but this is not the only instance in which Shakspeare confounds words of active and passive signification. Not to be divided; not to be wounded; indivisible.

As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air
With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed.
Shakspeare

Darkened so, yet shone
Above them all the archangel: but his face
Deep seeds of thunder had intrenched, and care
Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows
Of dauntless courage and considerate pride
Boasting revenge.

Milton.

Little I desire my sceptre should intrench on God's sovereignty, which is the only king of men's conKing Charles.

sciences.

cate.

Hooker.

He found such intricateness, that he could see no way to lead him out of the maze. Sidney. That variety of factions into which we are so intricately engaged, gave occasion to this discourse. Swift.

The

part of Ulysses in Homer's Odyssey is much admired by Aristotle, as perplexing that fable with very agreeable plots and intricacies, by the many adventures in his voyage, and the subtilty of his beha

viour.

Addison. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness.

Id.

The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with errors. Addison's Cato. Contrivance intricate, expressed with ease, Where unassisted sight no beauty sees.

Couper. Retirement. INTRIGUE', n. s. & v. n. ! Fr. intrigue. A INTRIGUER, n. s. plot; a transacINTRIGUINGLY, adv. tion or affair of love, in which many are engaged; intricacy; the complication, or artful involution of a tale or poem. Intriguer, one who busies himself in private transactions, or pursues women. I desire that intriguers will not make a pimp of my lion, and convey their thoughts to one another. Addison.

As causes are the beginning of the action, the opposite designs against that of the hero are the middle of it, and form that difficulty or intrigue which makes up the greatest part of the poem. Pope. The hero of a comedy is represented victorious in all his intrigues. Swift.

Id.

Now love is dwindled to intrigue, And marriage grown a money league. Are we not continually informed that the author unravels the web of his intrigue, or breaks the thread of his narration? Canning.

Such smiling rogues as these,

Like rats, oft bite the holy cords in twain,
Too intrinsecate to unloose.

Shakspeare. King Lear. in contrariety to the secret will of God, as well as to Intrinsick goodness consists in accordance, and sin his revealed. Hammond's Fundamentals. The difference between worth and merit, strictly taken; that is, a man's intrinsick: this, his current value. Grew.

A lye is a thing absolutely and intrinsecally evil. South. Every one of his pieces is an ingot of gold, intrinsecally and solidly valuable. Prior.

His fame, like gold, the more 'tis tried,
The more shall its intrinsick worth proclaim.

Id.

He falls into intrinsecal society with Sir John Graham, who dissuaded him from marriage. Wotton.

The near and intrinsecal, and convincing argument of the being of God, is from human nature itself. Bentley.

If once bereaved of motion, matter cannot of itself acquire it again; nor till it be thrust by some other body from without, or intrinsecally moved by an immaterial self-active substance that can pervade it.

Id. INTRODUCE', v. a. Lat. introduco, inINTRODUCER, n.s. troductio. To conduct INTRODUCTION, n. s. or usher into a place; INTRODUCTIVE, adj. to bring into notice; into writing or discourse. Introducer, one who INTRODUCTORY, adj to produce; to bring conducts another to a place or person, or brings him into notice: introduction, the act of introducing; the preface to a book; the exordium of a discourse: introductive, introductory, serving as a means to something else.

Thus maketh he his introduction
To bringen folk to hir destruction.

Chaucer. The Chanones Yemannes Tale. The introduction of noble inventions seems to hold by far the most excellent place among all human actions. Bacon. This vulgar error whosoever is able to reclaim, he shall introduce a new way of cure, preserving by theory as well as practice.

Browne's Vulgar Errours. This introductory discourse itself is to be but an essay, not a book. Boyle. Mathematicians of advanced speculations may have other ways to introduce into their minds ideas of infinity. Locke.

The truth of Christ crucified, is the Christian's philosophy, and a good life is the Christian's logick that great instrumental introductive art, that must guide the mind into the former. South.

beastly vice of drinking to excess hath been lately, It is commonly charged upon the army, that the from their example, restored among us; but whoever the introducers were, they have succeeded to a miracle. Swift.

Here the twelfth Canto of our introduction Ends. When the body of the book's begun, You'll find it of a different construction.

From what some people say 'twill be when done,
The plan's at present simply in concoction.
Byron. Don Juan.
INTROGRESSION, n. s. Lat. introgressio.
Entrance; the act of entering.
INTROMIS'SION, n. s. Lat. intromissio.
The act of sending in.

If sight be caused by intromission, or receiving in the form of that which is seen, contrary species or forms shall be received confusedly together, which Aristotle shews to be absurd. Peacham.

All the reason that I could ever hear alledged by the chief factors for a general intromission of all sects and persuasions into our communion, is, that those who separate from us are stiff and obstinate, and will not submit to the rules of our church, and that therefore they should be taken away. South.

In the Scotch law. The act of intermeddling with another's effects: as, he shall be brought to an account for his intromissions with such an estate.

INTROMIT', v. a. Lat. intromitto. To send in; to let in; to adınit; to allow to enter; to be the medium by which any thing enters.

Glass in the window intromits light without cold to those in the room. Holder.

Tinged bodies and liquors reflect some sorts of rays, and intromit or transmit other sorts. Newton. INTROSPECT, v. a. Lat. introspectus. To take a view of the inside.

INTROSPECTION, n. s. From introspect. A view of the inside.

The actings of the mind or imagination itself, by way of reflection or introspection of themselves, are discernible by man. Hale.

INTROVENIENT, adj. Lat. intro and venio. Entering; coming in.

Scarce any condition which is not exhausted and obscured, from the commixture of introvenient nations, either by commerce or conquest.

INTRUDE', v. n. & v. a.
INTRUDER, n. s.
INTRUSION, n. s.

Browne.

Fr. intrusion; Lat. intrudo. To come in as an un

welcome guest without invitation or permission; to encroach; to force in or into: intruder,

an unwelcome visitor; an impertinent, officious fellow : intrusion, encroachment on any person or in any place; uncalled undertaking.

Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humility, and worshipping of angels, intrading into those things which he hath not seen by his fleshly mind.

Col. ii. 18.

I think myself in better plight for a lender than you are, the which hath something emboldened me to this unseasoned intrusion: for they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open. Unmannerly intruder as thou art!

Shakspeare.

Id.

Thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge And manners to intrude where I am graced. Id. They were but intruders upon the possession, daring the minority of the heir: they knew those lands were the rightful inheritance of that young lady. Davies on Ireland.

Frogs, lice, and flies, must all this palace fill With loathed intrusion. Milton's Paradise Lost. Many excellent strains have been jostled off by the intrusions of poetical fictions.

Browne.

Will you, a bold intruder, never learn To know your basket, and your bread discern?

VOL. XII.

Dryden.

The separation of the parts of one body, upon the intrusion of another, and the change from rest to motion upon impulse, and the like, seem to have some connection. Locke,

The Jewish religion was yet in possession; and therefore that this might so enter, as not to intrude, it was to bring its warrant from the same hand of omnipotence. South.

Rowe.

Forgive me fair one, if officious friendship Intrudes on your repose, and comes thus late To greet you with the tidings of success. How's this, my son? Why this intrusion? Were not my orders that I should be private? Addison's Cato.

It will be said, I handle an art no way suitable either to my employment or fortune. and so stand charged with intrusion and impertinency. Wotton.

Let me shake off the intrusive cares of day, And lay the meddly senses all aside. Thomson. But if perchance on some dull drizzling day, A thought intrude that says or seems to say. Cowper. Hope.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar.

Byron. Childe Harold.

INTRUST', v. a. In and trust. To treat with confidence; to charge with any secret commission, or thing of value; as, we intrust another with something; or we intrust something to another.

His majesty had a solicitous care for the payment of his debts; though in such a manner, that none of the duke's officers were intrusted with the knowledge of it.

Clarendon. Receive my counsel, and securely move; Intrust thy fortune to the powers above. Dryden. Are not the lives of those, who draw the sword In Rome's defence, intrusted to our care? Addison. Is duty a mere sport, or an employ? Life an intrusted talent, cr a toy?

Cowper. Retirement. INTUITION, n. s. Fr. intuitif; Lat. inINTUITIVE, adj. tueor, intuitus; Ital. inINTUITIVELY, adv. Stuitio. The act of seeing into; the insight into any thing; obtaining instantaneously from the ideas which are its knowledge not by deduction of reason, but object: intuitive, seeing, as opposed to believing; having the power of discovering truth without reasoning: intuitively, in a manner implying instant perception of the subject proposed.

The rule of ghostly or immaterial natures, as spirits and angels, is their intuitive intellectual judgment, concering the amiable beauty and high goodness of that object, which, with unspeakable joy and delight, doth set them on work. Hooker.

Faith, beginning here with a weak apprehension of things not seen, endeth with the intuitive vision of God in the world to come. Id.

The soul receives Discursive or intuitive.

Milton.

All knowledge of causes is deductive; for we know none by simple intuition, but through the mediation of their effects; for the casualty itself is insensible. Glanville.

He that single virtues did survey, By intuition in his own large breast. Dryden. Immediate perception of the agreement and disagreement of two ideas is when, by comparing them together in our minds, we see their agreement or disagreement; this therefore is called intuitive knowledge. Locke.

H

INVADE', v. a. Lat. invado. To go in, or INVA'DER, N. s. into; to make hostile enINVASION, n. s. trance; to attack or assault; INVA'SIVE, adj. to violate by the first act of aggression: invader, one who enters with hostility; an assailant, encroacher, or intruder: invasion, hostile entrance: invasive, opposed to defensive.

We made an invasion upon the Cherethites. 1 Sam. xxx. There shall be sedition among men, and invading one another; they shall not regard their kings. 2 Esdras.

Id.

Dryden.

When force invades the gift of nature, life, The eldest law of nature bids defend. I must come closer to my purpose, and not make more invasive wars abroad, when, like Hannibal, I am called back to the defence of my country. Id.

The nations of the' Ausonian shore
Shall hear the dreadful rumour from afar,
Of armed invasion, and embrace the war.
Id. Eneid.

William the Conqueror invaded England about the year 1060, which means this; that taking the duration from our Saviour's time 'till now, for one entire length of time, it shews at what distance this invasion was from the two extremes. Locke.

Reason finds a secret grief and remorse from every invasion that sin makes upon innocence, and that must render the first entrance and admission of sin uneasy. South.

Secure, by William's care, let Britain stand; Nor dread the bold invader's hand.

Prior.

What demonstrates the plague to be endemial to Egypt, is its invasion and going off at certain seasons.

Arbuthnot

Let other monarchs, with invasive bands, Lessen their people, and extend their lands; By gasping nations hated and obeyed, Lords of the desarts that their swords had made. Id.

Esteem and judgment with strong fancy join, To call the fair invader in ;

My darling favourite inclination, too,
All, all conspiring with the foe.

Granville.

The country about Attica was the most barren of any in Greece, through which means it happened that the natives were never expelled by the fury of invaders. Swift. Knowest thou not yet, when love invades the soul That all her faculties receive her chains.

Dr. Johnson's Irene. It is therefore idle to say that it is not in truth and in fact a foreign invasion. Canning's Speeches. INVALESCENCE, n. s. Lat. invalesco. Strength; health force. INVALID, adj. INVALIDATE, v. a. INVALIDE', n.s. INVALIDITY, n. s.

Fr. invalide; Lat. in and validus. Weak; without weight or cogency. Invalidate, to deprive of Invalide, one disabled by sickness or injury. Invalidity, weakness; want of strength, bodily or mental.'

force or efficacy.

But this I urge,

Admitting motion in the heavens, to shew Invalid, that which thee to doubt it moved.

Milton.

To invalidate such a consequence, some things might be speciously enough alledged.

Boyle.

He ordered, that none who could work should be idle, and that none who could not work by age, sickness, or invalidity, should want. Temple.

Tell a man, passionately in love, that he is jilted, bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, and it is ten to one but three kind words of her's shall invalidate all their testimonies. Locke. What beggar in the invalides,

With lameness broke, with blindness smitten,
Wished ever decently to die?

Prior.

INVALUABLE, adj. In and valuable. Precious above estimation; inestimable.

INVARIABLE, adj. INVARIABLENESS, N.S. INVARIABLY, adv.

INVENTIVE, adj.

stars.

INVEIGH'ER, n.s.

with against and at.

in speech or writing.

Shakspeare.

ld.

One of these inveighers against mercury, in seven weeks, could not cure one small herpes in the face. Wiseman.

INVEIGLE, v. a.) Fr. aveugler, enaveugler. INVEIG LER, n. s. -Skinner and Junius. Italian invogliare.-Minsheu. To persuade to something bad or hurtful; to wheedle; to allure; to seduce. Inveigler, a seducer to ill. Being presented to the emperor for his admirable beauty, the prince clapt him up as his inveigler.

Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him.

Sandys. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells, Shakspeare. To inveigle and invite the' unwary sense Of them that pass unweeting by the way. Both right able

To' inveigle and draw in the rabble.

INVENTOR, n. s.

French inventer; Lat. invenio, inventorium. To come upon; to discover; to produce something not made before; to forge; feign; to meet with:

INVENTORIALLY, adv. IN'VENTORY, n. s. & v. a. the person who thus acts is an inventer, inventor, INVEN'TRESS, n. s. to place in a catalogue. Inventorially, after the or inventress. Inventory, a catalogue of goods; manner of an inventory.

Woe to them that invent to themselves instruments of musick. Amos. The well and grounde of the firste invencion To knowe, the ortographie we must derive. Chaucer. The Remedie of Love. my devocion and my hole entent Was gevyn to pleasure, such as I did invent Nowe I repent, therefore my necligence to God, Who hathe me corrected with his dyvyn rod. G. Cavendish's Metrical Visions.

For

Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing, The several parcels of his plate. Shakspeare. To divide inventorially, would dizzy the arithmetick of memory. Id. Hamlet.

I will give out divers schedules of my beauty: it labelled. shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil Shakspeare.

We have the statue of your Columbus, that discovered the West Indies, also the inventor of ships; your Monk, that was the inventor of ordnance, and of gunpowder. Bacon.

Whoe'er looks,

For themselves dare not go, o'er Cheapside books, Shall find their wardrobe's inventory. Donne.

His eyes deep sunken been With often thoughts, and never slacked intention : Yet he the fount of speedy apprehension, Father of wit, the well of arts, and quick invention. Fletcher's Purple Island.

Studious they appear

Of arts that polish life; inventors rare,
Unmindful of their maker.

Milton's Paradise Lost.

We may invent

Id.

Sidney..

By improving what was writ before, Invention labours less, but judgment more. Roscommon