incorruptible; by which they meant, that after, and from the time wherein he was formed in the womb of his holy mother, he was not susceptible of any change or alteration; not even of any natural and innocent passions, as of hunger, thirst, &c.; so that he eat without any occasion before his death, as well as after his resurrection. And hence they took their name. INCRAS'SATE, v. a. INCRASSA'TION, n. s. INCRAS'SATIVE, N. S. Lat. in and crassus. The act of thickening, and the state of grow ing thick, are called incrassation: incrassate, to make thick: incrassative, having the quality of thickening. The two latter indicate restringents to stanch, and incrassatives to thicken the blood. Ilarvey. Nothing doth conglaciate but water; for the determination of quicksilver is fixation, that of milk coagulation, and that of oil incrassation. Browne. If the cork be too light to sink under the surface, the body of water may be attenuated with spirits of wine; if too heavy, it may be incrassated with salt. Id. Vulgar Errours. Acids dissolve or attenuate; alcalies precipitate or incrassate. Newton's Opticks. Acids, such as are austere, as unripe fruits, produce too great a stricture of the fibres, incrassate and coagulate the fluids; from whence pains and rheumatism. Arbuthnot. INCREASE', v. n., v. a., & n. s. Į Lat. in Sand cresco, To grow more in number, or greater in bulk; to advance in quantity or value, or in any quality capable of being more or less; to be fertile; to make more or greater: increase, augmentation; addition to the original stock; produce; generation; progeny; the state of waxing or growing full orbed increaser, he who increases. Take thou no usury of him nor increase. Levit. Hear and observe to do it, that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily. Prior. Since the desire is infinite, nothing but the absolute As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow. Prpe. Byron's Cain. Fr. incredibilité, incredule; Latin, incredibilis, incredulus. Surpassing belief: the quality or manner of being not to be believed. Incredulity, hardness of belief; refusal of credit to testimony; the state or disposition INCRED'ULOUSNESS, n. s. of unbelief. The ship Argo, that there might want no incredible thing in this fable, spoke to them. Raleigh. He was more large in the description of paradise, o take away all scruple from the incredulity of future ages. Id. I am not altogether incredulous but there may be. such candles as are made of salamander's wood, being a kind of mineral which whiteneth in the burnHe hath increased in Judah mourning and lamenta ing, and consumeth not. Bacon. tion. I will increase the famine. Deut. vi. 3. Sam. Ezek. v. 16. I will increase them with men like a flock. Id. xxxvi. Profane and vain babbling will increase unto more ungodliness. 2 Tim. ii. 16. Hye thee from this slaughter-house, Id. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs, will grow soonest, if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon's Natural History. Upon his shield a palm-tree still increased, Though many weights its rising arms depressed: His word was, Rising most, by being most oppressed.' Fletcher's Purple Island. As Hesiod sings, spread waters o'er thy field, And a most just and glad increase 'twill yield. Denham, Our maker bids increase; who bids abstain But our destroyer, foe to God and man? Milton. Fishes are more numerous or increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn. Hale. It serves to increase that treasure, or to preserve it. Temple. Yet God has wrought things as incredible Presenting things impossible to view, Not consumable by fire. If from the skin of the salamander these incremable pieces are composed. IN'CREMENT, n. s. act of growing greater; Browne's Vulgar Errours. Lat. incrementum. The increase or produce. concerning the Nile's increBrowne's Vulgar Errours. The orchard loves to wave With Winter winds: the loosened roots then drink Large increment, earnest of happy years. Phillips. Divers conceptions are ment, or inundation. This stratum is expanded at top, serving as the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. The admonitions, fraternal or paternal, of his fellow Christians, or of the governors of the church, then more publick reprehensions and increpations. Hammond. INCRUST', v. a. Fr. incruster; Latin INCRUS TATE, v. a. incrusto. To cover with INCRUSTA'TION, n. s. O an additional coat adhering to the internal matter; a covering; something superinduced. The finer part of the wood will be turned into air, and the grosser stick baked and incrustate upon the sides of the vessel. Bacon. Having such a prodigious stock of marble, their chapels are laid over with such a rich variety of incrustations as cannot be found in any other part. Addison on Italy. Some rivers bring forth spars, and other mineral matter so as to cover and incrust the stones. Woodward. Any of these sun-like bodies in the centres of the several vortices, are so incrustated and weakened as to be carried about in the vortex of the true sun. Cheyne. Save but our army, and let Jove incrust Swords, pikes, and guns, with everlasting rust. Pope. The shield was purchased by Woodward, who incrusted it with a new rust. Arbuthnot and Pope. How was my heart incrusted by the world; O how self-fettered was my grov'ling soul. Young. IN'CUBATE, v. n. Lat. incubo. To sit upon eggs: the act of sitting upon eggs to IN'CUBUS, n. s. INCUBATION, n. s. hatch them. Incubus, the night-mare. Women may now go safely up and down; Chaucer. The Wif of Bathes Tale. Whether that vitality was by incubation, or how else, is only known to God. Raleigh. Birds have eggs enough at first conceived in them to serve them, allowing such a proportion for every year as will serve for one or two incubations. Ray. The incubus is an inflation of the membranes of the stomach, which hinders the motion of the diaphragma, lungs, and pulse, with a sense of a weight oppressing Floyer. the breast. As the white of an egg, by incubation, so can the serum by the action of the fibres be attenuated. Arbuthnot. When the whole tribe of birds by incubation, produce their young, it is a wonderful deviation, that some few families should do it in a more novercal way. .Derham. INCUBUS, or Night Mare, is a disease consisting in oppression of the breast, so very violent, that the patient cannot speak or even breathe. The Greeks call it plaλrns, q. d. leaper, or one that rusheth on a person. In this disease the senses are not quite lost, but drowned and astonished, as is the understanding and imagination; so that the patient seems to think some huge weight thrown on him, ready to strangle him. Children are very liable to this distemper; so are corpulent people, and men of much study and application of mind, by reason the stomach in all these finds some difficulty in digestion. INCULCATE, v. a. INCULCATE, n. s. Fr. inculquer; Lat. Sinculco. To impress INCULPABLE, adj.Not deserving blame: Latin inculpabilis. INCULPABLY, adv. not in a responsible manner. As to errors or infirmities, the frailty of man's condition has invincibly, and therefore inculpably, exposed him. South. Ignorance, so far as it may he resolved into natural inability, is, as to men at least, inculpable, and cousequently not the object of scorn, but pity. INCUM'BENCY, n. s. ? Latin, incumbo. INCUMBENT, adj. & n. s. The act of lying upon another; the state of keeping a benefice. Incumbent, resting; lying upon; imposed as a duty; obligatory. Incumbent, the present possessor of an ecclesiastical benefice. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight. Milton's Paradise Lost. The ascending parcels of air, having now little more than the weight of the incumbent water to surmount, were able both so to expand themselves as to fill up that part of the pipe which they pervaded, and, by pressing every way against the sides of it, to lift upwards with them what water they found above them. Boyle. With wings expanded wide ourselves we'll rear, And fly incumbent on the dusky air. Dryden. There is a double duty incumbent upon us in the exercise of our powers. L'Estrange. Thus, if we think and act, we shall shew ourselves duly mindful not only of the advantages we receive from thence, but of the obligations also which are incumbent Atterbury. upon us. INCUM'BER, v. a. Fr. encombrer. To em barrass. See ENCUMBER. My cause is called, and that long looked-for day Is still encumbered with some new delay. Dryden. INCUR', v. a. Lat. incurro; Span. inINCURSION, n. s. currir; Ital. incorrere. To become liable to blame or punishment; to press on the senses incursion, a hostile attack; invasion without conquest; inroad; ravage. Spain is very weak at home, or very slow to move, when they suffered a small fleet of English to make an hostile invasion, or incursion, upon their havens and Bacon. roads. If idiots and lunaticks cannot be found, incurables may be taken into the hospital. Id. But ah! what woes remain! life rolls apace In youthful bodies more severely felt, INCURVATION, n. s. INCUR VATE, V. a. INCUR'VITY, n.s. Armstrong. Lat. incurvo. The act of bending; the state of being bent; flexion of the body in token of reverence: to crook: a change from a straight line. One part moving while the other rests, one would think, should cause an incurvation in the line. Glanville. The incurvity of a dolphin must be taken not really, but in appearance, when they leap above water, and suddenly shoot down again: strait bodies, in a sudden motion, protruded obliquely downward, appear crooked. Browne. He made use of acts of worship which God hath appropriated; as incurvation, and sacrifice. Stillingfleet. Sir Isaac Newton has shewn, by several experiments of rays passing by the edges of bodies, that they are incurvated by the action of these bodies. IN'DAGATE, v. a. Cheyne. Lat. indago. To search, or beat out: indagation, an enquiry or examina tion: indagator, an examiner. Part bath been discovered by himself, and some by human indagation. Browne's Vulgar Errours. The number of the elements of bodies requires to be searched into by such skilful indagators of nature. Boyle. Paracelsus directs us, in the indagation of colours, to have an eye principally upon salts. Boyle. INDART, v. a. In and dart. To dart in; to strike in. I'll look to like, if looking liking move; INDEBT, v. a. I Lat. in and debeo. To INDEBTED, adj. put into debt; to oblige or put under obligation: indebted, obliged by something received; bound to restitution; having incurred a debt. It has to before the person to whom the debt is due, and for before the thing received. Forgive us our sins, for we forgive every one that is indebted to us Luke xi. 4. If the course of politick affairs cannot in any good course go forward without fit instruments, and that any thing contrary to good manners; something wrong, but scarcely criminal: unfit to be seen of heard. If on they rushed, repulse Repeated, and indecent overthrow Doubled, would render them yet more despised, superiority, as above the common tate: this is to be granted; a particle of connexion. It is used sometimes as a slight assertion or recapitulation in a sense hardly perceptible or explicable, and, though some degree of obscure power is perceived, might, even where it is properly enough inserted, beomitted without being missed. To denote concession in comparisons. Some, who have not deserved judgment of death, have been for their goods' sake caught up and carried streight to the bough; a thing indeed very pitiful and horrible. Spenser. Though such assemblies he had indeed for Religion's sake, hurtful nevertheless they may prove as well in regard of their fitness to serve the turn of hereticks, and such as privily will venture to instil their poison into new minds. Hooker. Then didst thou utter, I am yours for ever, Tis grace indeed. Shakspeare. Against these forces were prepared to the number of near one hundred ships; not so great of bulk indeed, but of a more nimble motion. Bacon, I said I thought it was confederacy between the juggler and the two servants; tho' indeed I had no reason so to think. Borrows in mean affairs his subjects' pains; But things of weight and consequence indeed, Himself doth in his chamber them debate. men. Id. Davies. Yet loving indeed, and therefore constant. Sidney. This limitation, indeed, of our author will save those the labour who would look for Adam's heir among the race of brutes; but will very little contribute to the discovery of one next heir amongst Locke. Such sons of Abraham, how highly soever they may Characters, where obscene words were proper in have the luck to be thought of, are far from being Israelites indeed. South their mouths, but very indecent to be heard. There is indeed no great pleasure in visiting these magazines of war, after one has seen two or three of them. Milton's Paradise Lost. Dryden. He will in vain endeavour to reform indecency in his pupil, which he allows in himself. Till these men can prove these things, ordered by our church, to be either intrinsically unlawful or indecent, the use of them, as established amongst us, is necessary. South. And it is abominable, because it abounds in filthy and indecent images. Beattie. INDECIDUOUS, adj. Lat. in, de, cado In and deciduous. Not falling; not shed. Used of trees that do not shed their leaves in winter. We find the statue of the sun framed with rays about the head, which were the indeciduous and unshaken locks of Apollo. Browne. INDECLI'NABLE, adj. Fr. indeclinable; Lat. indeclinabilis. Not varied by terminations. Pondo is an indeclinable word, and when it is joined to numbers it signifies libra. Arbuthnot. INDECOROUS, adj. Lat. in, decus, indeINDECO'RUM, n. s. corus. Conduct unsuitable, unsemly, and improper: 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? The soft address, the castigated grace, INDEED', adv. Belg. inde dadt; Teut. inder that, i.e. that is truly. See DEED. In reality; in truth: used emphatically to express Addison. It is indeed true that habits of long acquaintance will sometimes overcome dislike. Beattie Indeed a certain fair and fairy one I dread it, indeed, but upon far other grounds; 1 dread it from a consciousness of the tremendous power Great Britain possesses of pushing hostilities in which she may be engaged to consequences which I shudder to contemplate. Canning. INDEFATIGABLE, adj. Į Spanish and INDEFATIGABLY, adv. French, indefatigable; Lat. in and defatigo. Unwearied; not exhausted with labor; diligent: without intermission, and without tiring. Who shall spread his airy flight, Milton A mar. indefatigably zealous in the service of the church and state, and whose writings have highly deserved of both. Dryden. The ambitious person must rise early and sit up late, and pursue his design with a constant indefatigable attendance: he must be infinitely patient and servile. South. Wilful perpetration of unworthy actions brands with indelible characters the name and memory. King Charles. They are indued with indelible power from above to Lat. in and feed, to govern this household, and to consecrate pastors and stewards of it to the world's end. defectus. The INDEFECTIBILITY, n. s. Į INDEFECTIBLE, adj. quality of suffering no decay, decline, or defect: unfailing; constant. INDËFEI'SIBLE, adj. Fr. indefaisable. Not to be cut off; not to be vacated; irrevocable. So indefeisible is our estate in those joys, that, if we do not sell it in reversion, we shall, when once invested, be beyond the possibility of ill husbandry. Decay of Piety. sus. INDEFEN'SIBLE, adj. Lat. in and defenThat cannot be defended or maintained. As they extend the rule of consulting Scripture to all the actions of common life, even so far as to the taking up of a straw, so it fensible. is altogether false or inde Sanderson. INDEFINITE, adj. Fr. indefini; Italian INDEFINITELY, adv. indefinite; Lat. indefiINDEFINITUDE, n. s. Snitus. Not determined or limited; undecided; large beyond human comprehension, although not absolutely without limits: quantity not limited or defined. We observe that custom, whereunto St. Paul alludeth, and whereof the fathers of the church in their writings make often mention, to shew indefinitely what was done; but not universally to bind for ever all prayers unto one only fashion of utterance. Hooker. Though a position should be wholly rejected, yet that negative is more pregnant of direction than an indefinite; as ashes are more generative than dust. Bacon's Essays. Her advancement was left indefinite; but thus, that it should be as great as ever any former queen of England had. Bacon. They arise to a strange and prodigious multitude, if not indefinitude, by their various positions, combi nations, and conjunctions. Hale. We conceive no more than the letter beareth; that is, four times, or indefinitely more than thrice. Browne. Tragedy and picture are more narrowly circumscribed by place and time than the epick poem; and the time of this last is left indefinite. Dryden. If the word be indefinitely extended, that is, so far as no human intellect can fancy any bounds of it, then what we see must be the least part. Ray. Though it is not infinite, it may be indefinite; though it is not boundless in itself, it may be so to human comprehension. Spectator. A duty to which all are indefinitely obliged, upon some occasions, by the expressed command of God. Smalridge. INDELIBERATE, adj. ? Fr. indeliberé. INDELIBERATED. In and deliberate. Unpremeditated; done without consideration. Actions proceeding from blandishments, or sweet persuasions, if they be indeliberated, as in children, who want the use of reason, are not presently free actions. Bramhall. The love of God better can consist with the indeliberate commissions of many sins, than with an allowed persistance in any one. Government of the Tongue. INDEL'IBLE, adj. Fr. indelebile; Lat. indelebilis. Not to be blotted out or effaced; not to be annulled. Sprat. Thy heedless sleeve will drink the coloured oil, Aud spot indelible thy pocket soil. Gay's Trivia. INDEL'ICACY, n. s. Latin in and delicia; INDEL'ICATE, adj. Shence delicatus. Wart of decency; coarseness of appearance or manner: inelegant. See DELICACY. Your papers would be chargeable with worse than indelicacy, they would be immoral, did you treat detestable uncleanness as you rally an impertinent selflove. Addison. Fr. indemnité; Ital. indemnita; in, INDEMNIFICATION, n. s. and Lat. damno. Security against loss; reimbursement of penalty or loss, and security from punishment: to preserve from injury. I will use all means, both of amnesty and indem nity, which may most fully remove all fears, and bury all jealousies in forgetfulness. King Charles. Insolent signifies rude and haughty, indemnify to keep safe. Watts. Just laws, to be sure, and admirable equity, if a stranger is to collect a mob which is to set half Manchester on fire; and the burnt half is to come upon the other half for indemnity, while the off unquestioned, by the stage! INDENT, v. a., v. n. & n. s. stranger goes Canning. Fr. dente; Ital. indentare; Latin in and dens; a tooth. To mark any thing with inequalities like a row of teeth; to cut in and out; to make a wave or undulate. Indent, from the method of cutting counterparts of a contract together, that, laid on each other, they may fit, and any want of conformity may discover a fraud; to contract; to bargain; to make a compact. Indent, inequality; incisure. Indentation, waving in any figure. Indenture, a covenant, so named because the counterparts are indented or cut one by the other; a contract of which there is a counterpart. In Hall's chronicle much good matter is quite marred with indenture English. Ascham's Schoolmaster. Trent shall not wind with such a deep indent. To rob me of so rich a bottom here. Shakspeare Shall we buy treason, and indent with fears, When they have lost and forfeited themselves? About his neck Id. A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself, Id. As You Like It. Id. |