a Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, pear almost incredible. If any man (faid they) The sport of winds. Milton, purchases letters of indulgence, his foul may reft In Purgatory, indulgences, and supererogation, fecure with respect to its salvation. The souls the assertors seem to be unanimous in nothing but confined in Purgatory, for whose redemption inprofit. Decay of Piety.-Leo X. is defervedly in. dulgences are purchased, as soon as the money tinfamous for his bale prostitution of indulgences. kles in the chest, inftantly escape from that place Atterbury. of torment, and ascend into heaven. That the ef(2.) INDULGENCES, in the Romis church, ($ 1. ficacy of indulgences was so great, that the most def. 4.) are a remission of the punishment due to heinous fins, even if oge Mould violate (which was fins, granted by the church, and supposed to save impossible) the mother of God, would be remitted the Ginner from Purgatory. -According to the Ro- and expiated by them, and the person be freed both mifh doctrine, all the good works of the faints, from punishment and guilt. That this was the un. over and above those which were necessary towards speakable gift of God, in order to reconcile men to their own justification, are deposited, together himself . That the cross erected by the preachers of with the infinite merits of Jesus Christ, in one in. indulgences was equally efficacious with the cross exhaustible treasury. The keys of this were com- of Christ. “Lo ! the heavens are open; if you mitted to St Peter, and to his successors the popes, enter not now, when will you enter ? For twelve who may open it at pleafure, and by transferring pence you may redeem the soul of your father out a portion of this fuperabundant merit to any par- of Purgatory; and are you fo ungrateful, that you ticular person, for a fum of money, may convey will not rescue your parent from torment? If you to bim either the pardon of his own fins, or a re had but one coat, you ought to strip yourself in. lease for any one in whom he is interested, from stantly, and fell it , in order to purchase fuch bethe pains of Purgatory. Indulgences were first nefits," &c. This monstrous abuse of indulgences invented in the inth century, by Urban II. as a contributed greatly to the reformation of religion recompense for those who went in person upon in Germany, where Martin Luther first began to the glorious enterprise of conquering the Holy declaim against the preachers of indulgences, and Land. They were afterwards granted to those who afterwards against indulgences themselves. Since hired a soldier for that purpose ; and in process of that period, the popes have been more sparing in time were beftowed on such as gave money for the exercise of this power : however, they still caraccomplishing any pious work enjoined by the ry on a great trade with them to the Indies, where Pope. This power of granting indulgences has they are purchased at two rials a-piece, and somebeen greatly abused. Pope Leo X. in order to times more. The pope likewise grants indulgences carry on the magnificent structure of St Peter's at to persons at the point of death; that is, he grants Rome, published indulgences, and plenary remif. them, by a brief, power to choose what confeffor fion, to all who should contribute money towards they please, who is authorised thereby to absolve it. Finding the project take, he granted to Al- them from all their fins in general. bert elector of Mentz, and Apb. of Magdeburg, * INDULGENT. adj. lindulgent, Fr. indulgens, the benefit of the indulgences of Saxony and the Lat.) 1. Kind; gentle; liberal. God has done all neighbouring parts, and farmed out those of other for us that the most indulgent Creator could do countries to the highest bidders; who, to make the for the work of his hands. Rogers. 2. Mild; fabest of their bargain, procured the ableft preachers yourable.to cry up the value of the ware. The form of these Hereafter such in thy behalf shall be indulgences was as follows: “ May our Lord Jesus Th' indulgent censure of pofterity. Waller. Christ have mercy upon thee, and absolve thee by 3. Gratifying; favouring; giving way to: with of the merits of his most holy passion. And I, by The feeble old, indulgent of their ease. Dryd. his authority, that of his blessed apostles Peter and * INDULGENTLY. adv. (from indulgent.] Paul, and of the most holy Pope, granted and without severity; without censure; without feltcommitted to me in these parts, do absolve thee, reproach ; with indulgence. He that not only first from all ecclefiaftical censures, in whatever commits some act of fin, but lives indulgently in it, manner they have been incurred; then from all is never to be counted a regenerate man. Hamm. thy fins, transgressions, and excefses, how enor- (1.) * INDULT. INDULTO. n. f (Ital. and Fr.] mous foever they may be, even from such as are Privilege or exemption. reserved for the cognizance of the holy see, and as (2.) INDULT, in the church of Rome, is the far as the keys of the holy church extend: I re- power of presenting to benefices granted to cermit to you all punishment which you deserve in tain persons by the pope. Of this kind is the inPurgatory on their account; and I restore you to dult of kings and sovereign princes in the Romish the holy facraments of the church, to the unity of communion, and that of the parliament of Paris the faithful, and to that innocence and purits granted by several popes. By the concordat for which you possessed at baptism; so that when the abolition of the pragmatic sanction, made beyou die, the gates of punishment shall be fut, tween Francis I. and Leo X. in 1916, the French and the gates of the paradise of delight shall be king had the power of nominating to bilhoprics, opened : and if you thall not die at present, this and other confiftorial benefices, within his realm. grace shall remain in full force, when you are at At the same time, by a particular bull, the pope the point of death. In the name of the Father, granted him the privilege of nominating to the and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." The churches of Brittany and Provence.' In 1648 pope terms in which the retailers of indulgences de Alexander VIII. and in 1668 Clement IX. granted Scribed their benefits, and the necessity of pura the king an indult for thọ bishoprick of Metz, chafing them, are fu extravagant, that they ap. Toul, and Verdun, which had been yielded to 1 I N D I N E * INDUSTRIOUSLY. adv. (from induftrious.) which is always confirmed by the popes at the 1. With habitual diligence ; not idly. 2. Dilitime of their ele&tion. By this treaty the cardi- gently ; laboriously; affiduously.-Great Britain sals have the free disposal of all the benefices de- was never before united under one king, not withpending on them, and are empowered likewise to standing that the uniting had been industriously at. beltow a benefice in cônimendam. tempted both by war and peace. Bacon. 3. For (3.) INDULT, or in the Spanish revenue, is a the set purpofe ; with design. INDULTO, duty, tax, or custom, paid for Some friends to vice induftriously defend al fuck commodities as are imported from the These innocent diversions, and pretend Welt Indies in the galleons. That I the tricks of youth too roughly blame. (1.) * TO INDURATE. v. a. (induro, Lat.) 1. Dryden's fuo. To make hard. A contracted indurated bladder I am not under the necessity of declaring myis a circumstance sometimes attending on the stone, self, and I indußriously conceal my name, which and indeed an extraordinary dangerous one. Sbarp. wholly exempts me from any hopes and fears. 1. To harden the mind; to sear the conscience. Swift. (3.)* TO INDURATE. v. n. To grow hard; to • INDUSTRY. n. f. [induftrie, Fr. induftria, barden.-Stones within the earth at first are but Latin.] Diligence; affiduity; habitual or actual rude earth or clay; and so minerals come at first laboriousness. of juices concrete, which afterwards indurate. The sweat of industry would dry and die,' Bacon - That plants and ligneous bodies may in But for the end it works to. Shaki Cymbel. durate under water, without approachment of air, See the laborious bee we have experiments in corallines. Brown. For little drops of honey Alee, ** INDURATION. n. f. [from indürate.] 1. The And there with humble sweets content her inftate of growing bard. This is a rotable instance duftry. Cowley. of condensation and induration, by burial under --Providence would only initiate mankind into earth, in caves, for a long time. Bacon. 2. The the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the act of hardening 3. Obduracy; hardness of rest to employ our industry, that we might not live heart.-Schism is marked out by the apostle as a like idle loiterers. More. kind of petrifying crime, which induces that indu- INEADA, a town of Turkey, in Romania. ration to which the fearful expectation of wrath INEBOLI, a town of Turkey, in Natolia. is conlequent. Decay of Piety. INEBRIANT, n. f. any thing that affects the INDUS; a great river of INDIA, or HINDOOS. nerves in a particular and agreeable manner, and TAN PROPER, called by the natives, SEND, Sinde, through them alters and disturbs the functions of or SINDEH; formed of about ten rivers, which the mind. Inebriants are divided into natural and rile among the mountains of Persia, Tartary, and artificial ; the former chiefly in use among the Little Thibet, N, and NE. of Hindooftar, far re. oriental and other nations, ihe latter principally mote from their fides. From the city of ATTOCK, throughout Europe. in Lat. 32. 27. downward to Moultán, to the con- 1. INEBRIANTS, ARTIFICIAL, are fermented lic fiux of the Chunaub, it is named the Attock. quors from farinaceous feeds, wines, and spirits Below Moultan it runs in a SW. direction through drawn by distillation. With these are ranked the the provinces of Moultan and Sindy; and falls in- NECTAR of the gods; the anodyne medicine of to the Arabian or Persian Sea, by several mouths, Homer, commonly called NEPENTHES; and the NW. of the Gulf of Cutch.' The Nilah, Jamal, fpells by which Medea and Circe produced their Behat, and Lakkah fall into it. inchantments. But it seems absurd to rank fabu* INDUSTRIOUS. adj. (indußrieux, Fr. induf- lous drugs with real inebriants. trius, Latin.] 1. Diligent; laborious; alliduous: 2. INEBRIANTS, NATURAL, are, 1. Opium; in opposed to slethful.-- Frugal and indufrious men use all over the eaft, and of which the Turks, are commonly friendly to the establillied govern through custom, swallow a drachm. 2. Peganum ment. Temple. 2. Laborious to a particular end: harmala, Syrian rue. The feeds are sold in Turopposite to remiss-He himself, being excellently key for this purpose; and with these, as Bellonius leared, and industrious to seek out the truth of relates, the Turkish emperor Solyman kept himI things concerning the original of his own peo- self intoxicated. 3. Maflac of the Turks, or bangue ple, hath fet down the teftimony of the ancients of the Perfians ; prepared from the dust of the truly. Spenser on Ireland. male-flower of hemp, or from the leaves. 4. Let our just cenfures Bangue of the Indians, from the leaves of the hiAttend the true event, and put we on biscus sabdariffa. 5. Seeds of various species of Induftrious foldierthip. Shakspeare. the datura, or thorny apple. 6. Pinang, or betel His thoughts were low : of the Indians. 7. Roots of black henbane. 8. To vice induftrious, but to nobler deeds The hyoscyamus phyfaloides. 9. Berries of the Timorous and Nothful. Milton. deadly nightshade. 10. Leaves of millfoil are 3. Defigned ; done for the purpose. --The induf- used by the Dalecarlians to render their beer intoxi. trions perforation of the tendons of the second cating. si. Tobacco, and several others less ma. S terial, Vol. XU. Part I. terial, are mentioned; fuch as clary, faffron, and darnel. (1.) * To INEBRIATE. v. a. [inebrio, Latin.] To intoxicate; to make drunk.-Wine fugared inebriateth less than wine pure; fops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine of itself. Bacon.-Fish, entering far in and meeting with the fresh water, as if inebriated, turn up their bellies and are taken. Sandys. (2.) To INEBRIATE. v. n. To grow drunk; to be intoxicated.-At Conftantinople, fish, that come from the Euxine fea into the fresh water, do inebriate and turn up their bellies, fo as you may take them with your hand. Bacon. *INEBRIATIOŃ. n. S. [from inebriate.] Drunkenness; intoxication.-That cornelians and bloodstones may be of virtue, experience will make us grant; but not that an amethyft prevents inebriation. Brown. * INEFFABILITY. n. J. [from ineffable.] Unfpeakableuefs. * INEFFABLE. adj. [ineffable, Fr. ineffabilis, Lat.] Unfpeakable; unutterable; not to be expreffed. It is used almost always in a good fenfe. To whom the Son, with calm afpect, and clear, Light'ning divine, ineffable, ferene! Made anfwer. Milton. -Reflect upon a clear, unblotted, acquitted conscience, and feed upon the ineffable comforts of the memoria of a conquered temptation. South * INEFFABLY. adv. [from ineffable.] In a manner not to be expressed. He all his father full exprefs'd, Ineffably into his face receiv'd. Milton. INEFFECTIVE. adj. [ineffe&if, Fr. in and effective.] That which can produce no effect; unactive; inefficient; ufelefs-As the body without blood is a dead and lifelefs trunk; fo is the word of God, without the fpirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Taylor. He that affures himself he never errs, will always err; and his prefumptions will render all attempts to inform him ineffective. Glanv. * INEFFECTUAL. adj. (in and effectual.] Unable to produce its proper effect; weak; wanting power. The publick reading of the Apocrypha they condemn as a thing effectual unto evil: the bare reading even of Scriptures themselves they miflike, as a thing ineffectual to do good. Hook. The death of Patrocles, joined to the offer of Agamemnon, which of itself had proved ineffe&ual. Pope. *INEFFECTUALLY. adv. [from ineffe&ual.] Without effect. * INEFFECTUALNESS. n.. [from ineffe&ual.] Inefficacy; want of power to perform the proper effect.-St James fpeaks of the ineffectual nefs of fome men's devotion, Ye afk, and receive not, because ye ask amifs. Wake. * INEFFICACIOUS. adj. [inefficace, Fr. inefficax, Latin. Unable to produce effects; weak; feeble. Ineffectual rather denotes an actual failure; and inefficacious, an habitual impotence to any effect. Is not that better than always to have the rod in hand, and, by frequent ufe, mifapply and render inefficacious this ufeful remedy? Locke. * INEFFICACY. n. f. [in and efficacia, Latin.] Want of power; want of effect. INELEGANCE. Įn. f. [from inelegant.] Ab INELEGANCY. } fence of beauty; want o elegance. INELEGANT. adj. [inelegans, Latin.] Not becoming; not beautiful; opposite to ele gant What order, so contriv'd as not to mix Taftes, not well join'd, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste, upheld with kindlieft change Milton This very variety of fea and land, hill and dale which is here reputed fo inelegant and unbecoming is indeed extremely charming and agreeable. Wood ward. 2. Wanting ornament of language.-Mo dern critics, having never read Homer, but it low and inelegant tranflations, impute the mean ness of the translation to the poet. Broome on thi Odyles. INELOQUENT. adj. [in and eloquens, Lat. Not perfuafive; not oratorical; oppofite to eloquent. INEPT. adj. [ineptus, Latin.) 1. Trifling; foolish.-The works of Nature, being neither ufe lefs nor inept, must be guided by fome principle of knowledge. Moore.After their various unsuccessful ways, Their fruitless labour, and inept effays, No cause of these appearances they'll find, But power exerted by th' Eternal Mind. Blackm 2. Unfit for any purpofe; useless.-When the upper and vegetative ftratum was once washed of by rains, the hills would have become barren, the ftrata below yielding only mere fterile matter fuch as was wholly inept and improper for the formation of vegetables. Woodward. * INEPTITUDE. n. f. [from ineptus, Latin.] Unfitnefs.-The grating and rubbing of axes against the sockets, wherein they are placed, will caufe fome ineptitude or refiftancy to rotation of the cylinder. Wilkins-An omnipotent agent work infallibly and irresistibly, no ineptitude or stubbornnefs of the matter being ever able to hinder him Ray on the Creation. There is an ineptitude to mo tion from too great laxity, and an ineptitude to motion from too great tenfion. Arbuthnot. * INEPTLY. adv. [ineptè, Lat.] Triflingly; foolishly; unfitly-None of them are made fool ithly or ineptly. More.-All things were at first dif pofed by an omnifcient intellect, that cannot contrive ineptly. * INEQUALITY. n. f. [inegalité, Fr. from inæqualitas and inæqualis, Latin.] 1. Difference of comparative quantity.-There is fo great an ine quality in the length of our legs and arms, as make it impoffible for us to walk on all four. Ray. 2. Un evennefs; interchange of higher and lower parts.The country is cut into fo many hills and inequa lities as renders it defenfible. Addison on Italy.The glafs feemed well wrought; yet when it wa quickfilvered, the reflexion discovered innumera ble inequalities all over the glass. Newton's Opticks If there were no inequalities in the furface of the earth, nor in the feafons of the year, we should lofe a confiderable share of the vegetable kingdom Bentley. 3. Difproportion to any office or purpose ftate of not being adequate; inadequateneis.-The great inequality of all things to the appetites of rational foul appears from this, that in all worldly *INESTIMABLE. adj. [inestimable, French, ineftimabilis, Latin.] Too valuable to be rated; tranfcending all price. I thought I faw a thousand fearful wrecks, A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon; Wedges of gold, great anehors, heaps of pearl, Ineftimable ftones, unvalu'd jewels. Shak. -The pope thereupon took advantage, abuting the fimplicity of the king to fuck out inestimable fums of money, to the intolerable grievance of both the clergy and temporality. Abbot.-There we fhall fee a fight worthy dying for, that blessed Saviour, of whom the Scripture does fo excellently entertain us, and who does fo highly deferve of us upon the score of his infinite perfections, and his inestimable benefits. Boyle. things a man finds not half the pleasure in the actual poffeffion that he proposed in the expectation. South. 4. Change of ftate; unlikeness of a thing to itself; difference of temper or quality.—In fome places, by the nature of the earth, and by the fiquation of woods and hills, the air is more unequal than in others; and inequality of air is ever an enemy to health. Bacon. 3. Difference of rank or ftation. If fo fmall inequality between man and man make in them modefty a commendable virtue, who, refpecting fuperiors, can neither speak bor ftand before them without fear. Hooker. *INERRABILITY. n. f. [from inerrable.] Exemption from error; infallibility.-I cannot allow their wisdom fuch a completeness and inerrabilias to exclude myself from judging. K. Charles. *INERRABLE. adj. [in and err.] Exempt from errour.-We have conviction from reafon, or decifions from the inerrable and requifite conditions of fenfe. Brown.-Infallibility and inerrabienes is affumed by the Romish church, with out any inerrable ground to build it on. Hamm. *INERRABLENESS. n. f. [from inerrable.] Exemption from error.-Infallibility and inerrablefis affumed and inclosed by the Romish church, without any inerrable ground to build it on. Hamdon Fundamentals. INERRABLY, adv. [from inerrable.] With fecurity from errour; infallibly. *INERRINGLY. adv. [in and erring.] Withbut errour; without mistake; without deviation. -That divers limners at a distance, without coPY, fhould draw the fame picture, is more conceivable, than that matter should frame itself fo rongly according to the idea of its kind. Glanv. *INERT. adv. [iners, Lat.] Dull; sluggish; notionless. Body alone, inert and brute, you'll find; The caufe of all things is by you affign'd. Blackmore. Informer of the planetary train! Without whofe quickening glance their cumb'rous orbs Were brute unlively mass,inert and dead. Thomf. (L) INERTIA, (Latin.] n. J. literally implies ggihnefs, inactivity, or want of motion. Hence 2) INERTIA OF MATTER, in philofophy, is ined by Sir Ifaac Newton to be a paffive prinple, by which bodies perfift in their motion or receive motion in proportion to the force preffing it, and refift as much as they are refiftHe alfo defines it to be a power implanted all matter, whereby it refifts any change endeavoured to be made in its state. INERTLY. adv. [from inert.] Sluggishly; Ye pow'rs, Sufpend a while your force inertly ftrong. Dunciad. INESCATION. .. [in and efca, Lat.] The aft of baiting. Dia. IN ESSE is applied to things which are actualexiting. Authors make a difference between thing in effe, and a thing in posse; a thing that at, but may be, they fay is in poffe, or potentia; bathing apparent and visible is in effe, that is, but real being eo inftanti; whereas the other is alaal, and at belt but a poffibility. And fhall this prize, th' ineftimable prize, On that rapacious hand for ever blaze! Pope. * INEVIDENT. adj. [inevident, French, in and evident.] Not plain; obfcure. Not in use.The habit of faith in divinity is an argument of things unfeen, and a stable affent unto things inevident, upon authority of the divine reveaier. Brown. * INEVITABILITY. n. J. [from inevitable.] Impoffibility to be avoided; certainty.-By liberty, I do understand neither a liberty from fin, mifery, fervitude, nor violence, but fin neceffity, or rather neceffitation; that is, an universal immunity from all inevitability, and determination to one. Bramhall. * INEVITABLE. adj. [inevitable, French, inevitabilis, Lat.] Unavoidable; not to be escaped.-I had a pafs with him: he gives me the ftuckin with such a mortal motion, that it is inevitable. Shak.— Subdues us. Fate inévitable Since my inevitable death you know, You fafely unavailing pity fhow. Milton. Dryden. * INEVITABLY. adv. [from inevitable.] With out poffibility of escape. The day thou eat'st thereof, my fole com-mand Tranfgreft, inevitably thou shalt die. Milton. -How inevitably does an immoderate laughter end in a figh! South.-If they look no further than the next line, it will inevitably follow, that they can drive to no certain point. Dryden,-Inflammations of the bowels oft inevitably tend to the ruin of the whole. Harvey.-If our fenfe of hearing were exalted, we fhould have no quiet or fleep in the filenteft nights, and we must inevitably be ftricken deaf or dead with a clap of thunder. Bentley. * INEXCUSABLE. adj. [inexcufable, French, inexcufabilis, Lat. in and excufable.] Not to be excufed; not to be palliated by apology. It is a temerity, and a folly inexcufable, to deliver up ourfelves needlefsly into another's power. L'ES trange. As we are an ifland with ports and navigable feas, we should be inexcufable if we did not. make thefe bleffings turn to account. Addison. Such a favour could only render them more obdurate, and more inexcufable; it would inhance their guilt. Atterbury. If learning be not encouraged under your adminiftration, you are the most inexcufable perfon alive. Swift.-A fallen wo man man is the more inexcufable, as, from the cradle, Inconvenient; unfit; improper; unfuitable to the fex is warned against the delufions of men. time or place. It is not inexpedient they fhould Clariffa. be known to come from a perfon altogether a ftranger to chymical affairs. Bogle.-We thould be prepared not only with patience to bear, but to receive with thankfulness a repulfe, if God fhould fee them to be inexpedient. Smalridge. INEXCUSABLENESS. n. f. [from inexcufable.] Enormity beyond forgiveness of palliation. Their inexcufableness is stated upon the fuppofition that they knew God, but did not glorify him. South. * INEXCUSABLY. adv. [from inexcusable.] To a degree of guilt or folly beyond excufe.-It will excufably condemn fome men, who having received excellent endowments, yet have fruftrated the intention. Brown. * INEXHALABLE. adj. [in and exhale.] That which cannot evaporate. A new laid egg will not fo eafily be boiled hard, because it contains a great flock of humid parts, which must be evaporated before the heat can bring the inexhalable parts into confiftence. Brown. *INEXHAUSTED. adj. [in and exhausted.} Unemptied; not poffible to be emptied. So wert thou born into a tuneful train, Dryden. An early, rich, and inexhausted vein. *INEXHAUSTIBLE. adj. [in and exhaustible.] Not to be drawn all away; not to be spent.Reflect on the variety of combinations which may be made with number, whofe stock is inexhaustible, and truly ir nite, Locke.-The ftock that the, mind has in its power, by varying the idea of space, is perfectly inexhaustible, and fo it can multiply figures in infinitum. Locke. INEXISTENCE. n. f. [in and existence.] Want of being; want of existence. He calls up the heroes of former ages from a ftate of inexistence to adorn and diverfify his poem. Broome. * INEXISTENT. adj. [in and exiftent.] 1. Not having being; not to be found in nature.-To exprefs complexed fignifications, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable forms into mixtures inexiflent. Brown. 2. Exifting in fomething elfe. This ufe is rare.We doubt whether thefe heterogeneities be fo much as inexiftent in the concrete, whence they are obtained. Boyle. * INEXORABLE. adj. [inexorable, French, inexorabilis, Latin.] Not to be intreated; not to be moved by intreaty. You are more inhuman, more inexorable, Oh ten times more, than tygers of Hyrcania! The guests invited came, Shak. Shak. Milton. And with the reft th' inexorable dame. Dryden, Th' inexorable gates were barr'd, And nought was feen, and nought was heard, But dreadful gleams, fhrieks of woe, Pope. -We can be deaf to the words of a sweet char mer, and inexorable to all his invitations. Rogers. INEXPEDIENCE. Įn. f. [in and expediency.] INEXPEDIENCY. Want of tacte, and of propriety; unfuitablenefs to time or place; inconvenience.-It concerneth fuperiors to look well to the expediency and inexpediency of what they enjoin in indifferent things. Sanderf. INEXPEDIENT. adj. [in and expedient.] * INEXPERIENCE. n. f. [inexperience, Fr. in and experience.] Want of experimental know ledge; want of experience. Thy words at random argue thine inexperience Milton -Prejudice and felf-fufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Additon. * INEXPERIENCED. adj. [inexpertus, Lat.] Not experienced. * INEXPERT. adj. (inexpertus, Lat, in and expert.] Unfkilful; unskilled. The race elect advance a * INEXPIABLY. adv. [from inexpiable.] T degree beyond atonement. Excurfions are inexpiably bad, And 'tis much fafer to leave out than add. Rofcommon INEXPLEABLY. adv. [in and expleo, Lat. Infatiably. A word not in ufe.-What wer thefe harpies but flatterers, delators, and the in expleably covetous? Sandys. * INEXPLICABLE. adj. [inexplicable, Fr. and explico, Lat.] Incapable of being explained not to be made intelligible; not to be difentangled -What could fuch apprehenfions breed, but, a their nature is, inexplicable paffions of mind, de fires abhoring what they embrace, and embracing what they abhor? Hooker.-To me at least thi feems inexplicable, if light be nothing elsethan pref fion or motion propagated through either. Newton None eludes fagacious reafon more, Than this obfcure,inexplicable pow'r. Blackmore * INEXPLICABLY. adv. [from inexplicable. In a manner not to be explained. Milton * INEXPRESSIBLE. adj. [in and exprefs. Not to be told; not to be uttered; unutterableThus when in orbs Of circuit inexpreffible they food, Orb within orb. --Nothing can fo peculiarly gratify the noble di pofitions of human nature, as for one man to fe another fo much himself as to figh his griefs, and groan his pains, to fing his joys, and do and fee every thing by fympathy and fecret inexprefib communications. South. The true God had n |