INSECTILE. adj. [from infect.] Having the nature of infects.-Infectile animals, for want of blood, run all out into legs. Bacon.

INSECTOLOGER. n. f. [infe& and xy®.] One who ftudies or defcribes infects. A word, I believe, unauthorised.-The infect itself is, according to modern infe&ologers, of the ichneumonfly kind. Derham.

INSECTOLOGY. n. f. [from infe&um, Latin; and xeyes, a difcourfe.] The science of entomology: a treatise on infects. See ENTOMOLOGY.

* INSECURE. adj. [in and fecure.] 1. Not fecure; not confident of fafety.-He is liable to a great many inconveniences every moment of his life, and is continually injecure, not only of the good thing of this life, but even of life itself. Tillotson. 2. Not fafé.

* INSECURITY. n. f. [in and fecurity.] 1. Uncertainty; aut of confidence.-It may be eafily perceived with what infecurity of truth we afcribe effects, depending upon the natural period of time, unt arbitrary calculations, and fuch as vary at pleafure. Brown. 2. Want of fafety; danger; hazard. The unreafonablenefs and prefumption, the danger and defperate infecurity of thofe that have not fo much as a thought, all their lives long, to adv. fo far as attrition and contrition, forrow and refolution of amendment. Hammond.

*INSECUTION. n. f. [infecution, Fr. infecutio, Lat.] Purfuit. Not in ufe.

Not the king's own horfe got more before the wheel

Of his rich chariot, that might still the infecution feel,

With the extreme hairs of his tail. Chapman. * INSEMINATION. n. f. [infemination, Fr. infenino, Latin.] The act of fcattering feed on ground.

INSENSATE. adj. [infenfe, Fr. infenfato, Italian.] Stupid; wanting thought; wanting fenfibility. Ye be reprobates; obdurate infnfare crea

tures. Hammond.

So fond are mortal men,

As their own ruin on themselves t' invite,
Infenfate left, or to fenfe reprobate,
And with blindness eternal @truck.

Milton. * INSENSIBILITY. n. f. [infenfibilité, French, from infenfible.] 1. Inability to perceive.-Infenfibility of flow motions may be thus accounted for: motion cannot be perceived without perception of the parts of space which it left, and those which it next acquires. Glanv. 2. Stupidity; dulnefs of mental perception. 3. Torpor; dulnefs of corporal fenfe.

* INSENSIBLE. adj. [infenfible, French.] 1. Imperceptible; not difcoverable by the fenfes. What is that word honour? air; a trim reckoning. Who hath it? he that died a Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. Is it infenfible then? yea, to the dead but will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not foffer it. Shak.-Two fmall and almost infenfible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm. Brown.-The deafe and bright light of the circle will obfcure the rare and weak light of thefe dark colours round about it, and render them almoft infenfible. Newton. 2. Slowly gradual, fo as that no progress is perceived.-

They fall away,

And languifh with infenfible decay. Dryden. 3. Void of feeling, either mental or corporal.I thought

Milton.

I then was paffing to my former state Infenfible, and forthwith to diffolve. -Accept an obligation without being a flave to the giver, or infenfible of his kindness. Wotton. 4. Void of emotion or affection.-You grow infenfible to the conveniency of riches, the delights of honour and praife. Temple. You render mankind infenfible to their beauties, and have destroyed the empire of love. Dryden.

INSENSIBLENESS. n. J. [from infenfible.) Abfence of perception; inability to perceive.The infenfibleness of the pain proceeds rather from the relaxation of the nerves than their obftruction. Ray.

INSENSIBLY. adv. [from infenfible.] 1. Imperceptibly; in fuch a manner as is not difcovered by the fenfes.

The planet earth, fo ftedfaft though the feem Infenfibly three different motions moves. Milton The hills rife infenfibly, and leave the eye a val uninterrupted prospect. Addison. 2. By flow de grees.

Equal they were form'd,

Save what fin hath impair'd, which yet hath wrought

Infenfibly.

Milton

Proposals agreeable to our paffions will infenfibi prevail upon our weaknefs. Rogers.Cadenus

Infenfibly came on her fide.

Savi

3. Without mental or corporal fenfe. INSEPARABILITY. Į ». /. [from insepar * INSEPARABLENESS. able] The quali ty of being such as cannot be severed or divided.The parts of pure space are immoveable, whic follows from their infeparability, motion being no thing but change of distance between any tw things; but this cannot be between parts that ar infeparable. Locke.

INSEPARABLE. adj. [infeparable, French infeparabilis, Latin.] Not to be disjoined; un ted fo as not to be parted.-Ancient times figu both the incorporation and infeparable conjunctio of counfel with kings, and the wife and polit use of counsel by kings. Bacon.

Thou, my fhade

Infeparable, muft with me along;

For death from fin no pow'r can separate. Mi -Care and toil came into the world with fin, ar remain ever fince infeparable from it. South.-N body feels pain, that he wishes not to be eased with a defire equal to that pain, and infrparal from it. Locke. The parts of pure space are i feparable one from the other, so that the contin ity cannot be feparated. Locke.-.

Together out they fly,
Infeparable now the truth and lie;

And this or that unmixt no mortal e'er sh
find.
Pe

INSEPARABLY. adv. [from infeparabi With indiffoluble union.-Drowning of metals when the bafer metal is fo incorporate with more rich as it cannot be separated; as if fil should be infeparabir incorporated with gold. B

Him thou fhalt enjoy, Infeparably thine. Milton. -Refleffness of mind feems infeparably annexed to human nature. Temple.-Atheifts must confefs, that before that affigned period matter had exifted eternally, infeparably endued with this principle of attraction; and yet had never attracted nor convened before, during that infinite duration. Bentley.

To INSERT. v. a. [inferer, Fr. infero, infertum, Lat.] To place in or amongst other things. -Thofe words were very weakly inferted, where they are fo liable to mifconftruction. Stilling flect. -With the worthy gentleman's name I will infert it at length in one of my papers. Addifon It is the editor's intereft to infert what the author's judgment had rejected. Swift.-Poefy and oratory omit things not effential, and infert little beautiful digreffions, in order to place every thing in the most affecting light. Watts.

(1.) INSERTION. n. f. [infertion, Fr. infertio, Latin.] 1. The act of placing any thing in or among other matter.-The great difadvantage our hiftorians labour under is too tedious an interruption, by the infertion of records in their narration. Felton.-An ileus, commonly called the twifting of the guts, is either a circumvolution or infertion of one part of the gut within the other. Arbuthnot. 2. The thing inferted. He foftens the relation by fuch infertions, before he describes the event. Broome.

(2.) INSERTION, in anatomy, the clofe conjunction of the veffels, tendons, fibres, and membranes of the body with fome other parts.

To INSERVE. v. a. [infervio, Lat.] To be of ufe to an end.

⚫ INSERVIENT. adj. [inferviens, Lat. Conducive: of use to an end. The providence of God, which difpofeth of no part in vain, where there is no digestion to be made, makes not any parts infervient to that intention. Broan.

To INSHELL. v. a. [in and shell.] To hide is a fhell. Not used.

Aufidius, hearing of our Marcius's banishment, Thrufts forth his horns again into the world, Which were infhell'd when Marcius ftood for Rome,

And durk not once peep out. Shak. INSHILLA, a town of Africa, on the E. coaft of Tunis; 108 miles S. of Tunis.

• To INSHIP. v. a. \in and ship.] To fhut in a fhip; to flow; to embark. Not ufed. We fay fimply to hip

See them fafely brought to Dover; where, infbipp'd,

Commit them to the fortune of the fea. Shak. To INSHRINE. v. a. [in and shrine.] To inclofe in a thrine or precious cafe. It is written equally enjbrine.

Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy
Inforines thee in his heart.

Shak.

Milton. INSIDE, n. f. [in and fide.] Interiour part; part within. Oppofed to the furface or outfide.Look'd he o' th' infide of the paper? -He did unfeal them. Shok.

They wing their course,

And dart on diftant coafts, if some sharp rock, Or fhoal infidious, breaks not their career.

Thomson.

INSIDIOUSLY. adv. [from infidious.] In a fly and treacherous manner; with malicious artifice. The caftle of Cadmus was taken by Phebidas the Lacedemonian, infidiously, and in violation of league. Bacon.Simeon and Levi spoke not only falfely but infidiously, nay hypocritically, abufing their profelytes and their religion, for the effecting their cruel defigns. Government of the Tongue.

* INSIGHT. n. f. [infight, Dutch. This word had formerly the accent on the laft fyllable.] Introfpection; deep view; knowledge of the interiour parts; thorough fkill in any thing.-Hatdy fhepherd, such as thy merits, fuch may be her infight juftly to grant thee reward. Sidney.—

Straightway fent with careful diligence*

To fetch a leech, the which has great infight
In that disease of grieved confcience,
And well could cure the fame; his name was

Patience.

Spenfer. -Now will be the right feafon of forming them to be able writers, when they fhall be thus fraught with an univerfal infight into things. Milton.The ufe of a little infight in those parts of knowledge, is to accuftom our minds to all forts of ideas. Locke.-A garden gives us a great infight into the contrivance and wifdom of providence. Spectator.-Due confideration, and a deeper infight into things, would foon have made them senfible of their error. Woodward.

* INSIGNIFICANCE. n. J. [infignificance, *INSIGNIFICANCY. French; from infignificant.] 1. Want of meaning; unmeaning terms. To give an account of all the infignificancies and verbal nothings of this philosophy, would be to tranfcribe it. Glanv. 2. Unimportance.-As I was ruminating on that I had feen, I could not forbear reflecting on the infignificancy of human art. Addifon

My annals are in mouldy mildews wrought, With eafy infignificance of thought. Garth. * INSIGNIFICANT. adj. [in and fignificant.] 1. Wanting meaning; void of fignification.

'Till you can weight and gravity explain, Those words are infignificant and vain. Blackm. 2. Unimportant; wanting weight; ineffectual. This fenfe, though fupported by authority, is not very proper.-That I might not be vapoured

down

(1.) * INSINUATION. n. f. [infinuatio, Lat. infinuation, Fr. from infinuate.] The power of pleafing, or ftealing upon the affections.-When the induftry of one man hath fettled the work, a new man, by infinuation or misinformation, may not fupplant him without a juft caufe. BaconHe had a natural infinuation and addrefs. Clarend. (2.) The INSINUATION OF A WILL, among civilians, is the firft production of it, or the leaving it with the register, in order to its probate. See WILL.

*INSINUATIVE. adj. [from infinuate.] Stealing on the affections.-It is a ftrange infinuative power which example and cuftom have upon us. Government of the Tongue.

* INSINUATOR. n. f, [infinuator, Lat.] He that infinuates. Ainsworth.

* INSIPID. adj. [infipide, French; infipidus, Latin.] 1. Wanting tafte; wanting power of af fecting the organs of guft.-Some earths yield, by diftillation, a liquor very far from being inodorous or infipid. Boyle

Our fathers much admir'd their fauces fweet, And often call'd for fugar with their meat; Infipid tafte, old friend, to them that Paris knew. King's Cookery. This chyle is the natural and alimentary pituita, which the ancients defcribed as infipid. Floger.She lays fome useful bile afide, To tinge the chyle's infipid tide. 2. Wanting fpirit; wanting pathos; flat; dull; heavy.—

Prior,

The gods have made your noble mind for me, And her infipid foul for Ptolemy;

Dryden.

Some fhort excursions of a broken vów He made indeed, but flat infipid stuff. Dryden. * INSIPIDITY, INSIPIDNESS. n.f. [infipidité, Fr. from infipid.] 1. Want of taste. 2. Want of life or fpirit.-Dryden's lines fhine ftrongly through the infipidity of Tate's. Pope.

* INSIPIDLY. adv. [from infipid.] 1. Without taste. 2. Dully; without fpirit.-One great reafon why many children abandon themselves wholly to filly fports, and trifle away all their time infipidly, is because they have found their curiofity baulked. Locke.

* INSIPIENCE. n. f. [infipientia, Lat.] Folly; want of understanding.

*To INSIST. v. n. [infifter, French; infisto, Latin.] 1. To ftand or reft upon.-The combs being double, the cells on each fide the partition are fo ordered, that the angles on one fide infift upon the centres of the bottom of the cells on the other fide. Ray. 2. Not to recede from ternis or affertions; to perfift in.

Sbak.

The

The heav'ns themselves, the planets, and the
centre,

Obferve degree, priority, and place,
Infiture, courfe, proportion, feafon, form,
Office, and cuftom, in all line of order.

Shak. INSITIENCY. 7. f. [in and fitio, Lat.] Exemption from thirft.-What is more admirable than the fitnefs of every creature for the ufe we make of him? The docility of an elephant, and the inficiency of a camel for travelling in deferts. Grew

* INSITION. n. f. [infitio, Latin.] The infertion or ingraffment of one branch into another. -Without the ufe of these we could have nothing of culture or civility; no tillage, grafting, or infitran. Ray.

To INSLAVE. See To ENSLAVE.

INSMING, a town of France in the dept. of the Meurthe; 9 miles ENE. of Morhange, 10 NNE. of Dieuze.

To INSNARE. v. a. [in and fnare.] To intrap; to catch in a trap, gin, or fnare, to in- " reigle.

Why ftrew't thou fugar on that bottled fpider, Whofe deadly web infnareth thee about. Shak. She infnar'd

Mankind with her fair looks.

Milton.

By long experience Durfey may no doubt Innare a gudgeon, or perhaps a trout;

He fish!-because the man attempts to write.

thefe towers for infolation, refrigeration, confervation, and for the view of divers meteors. Bacon. -If it hath not a fufficient infolation it looketh pale, and attains not its laudable colour: if it be funned too long, it suffereth a torrefaction. Brown. (2.) INSOLATION, in pharmacy, is a method of preparing fruits, drugs, &c. by expofing them to the heat of the fun's rays; either to dry, to maturate, or to fharpen them; as is done in vinegar, figs, &c.

INSOLENCE. n. f. [infolence, Fr. infolentia, INSOLENCY. Lat.] Pride exerted în contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; petulant contempt.-They could not reftrain the infolency of O'Neal, who, finding none now to withstand him, made himself lord of those few people that now remained. Spenser.

Such a nature,

Thonifon.

Fenton. 1. To intangle in difficulties or perplexities.That which in a great part, in the weightieft cafes belonging to this prefent controversy, hath ared the judgments both of fundry good and of fome well learned men, is the manifeft truth of certain general principles, whereupon the ordiLances that ferve for ufual practice in the church God are grounded. Hooker. That the hypote reign not, left the people be infnared. Fob . 30. 3. Enfnare is more frequent.

* INSNARER. n. f. [from infnare.] He that ininares.

* INSOBRIETY. n. f. [in and sobriety.] Drunkranefs; want of fobriety. He whofe confcience apbraids him with profanenefs towards God, and briety towards himself, if he is just to himself, he is juft to his neighbour, he thinks he has ut fcores. Decay of Piety.

INSOCIABLE. adj. (infociable, Fr. infociabilu, Lat.). Averfe from converfation.If this auftere infociable life

Change not your offer made in heat of blood. Shak. Incapable of connexion or union.-The loweft edge or row must be merely of ftone, closely laid, without mortar, which is a general caution for all parts in building that are contiguous to board or timber, becaufe lime and wood are infociable. Watton.

INSOKO, a town of Africa, on the Gold Coaft; 45 leagues from the fea.

TINSOLATE. v. a. [infolo, Lat.] To dry m the fun; to expofe to the action of the fun. (INSOLATION. n.f. [infolation, French, from infolate.] Exposition to the fun. We use

*To INSOLENCE. v. a. [from the noun.] To infult; to treat with contempt. A very bad word.-The bishops, who were firft faulty, infolenced, and affaulted. King Charles.

* INSOLENT. adj. [infolent, Fr. infolens, Lat.] Contemptuous of others; haughty; overbearing. -We have not pillaged those rich provinces which we refcued: victory itself hath not made us infolent mafters. Atterbury.

* INSOLENTLY. adv. [infolenter.] With contempt of others; haughtily; rudely.What I muft difprove,

He infolently talk'd to me of love.

Dryden. Not faction, when it shook thy regal seat, Not fenates, infolently loud,

Thofe echoes of a thoughtless crowd,
Could warp thy soul to their unjust decree.

Dryden. -Briant, naturally of an haughty temper, treated him very infolently, more like a criminal than a prifoner of war. Addifon.

*INSOLVABLE. adj. [infolvable, Fr. in and folve.] 1. Not to be folved; not to be cleared; inextricable; fuch as admits of no folution, or explication.-Spend a few thoughts on the puzzling inquiries concerning vacuums, the doctrine of infinities, indivifibles, and incommenfurables, wherein there appear fome infolvable difficulties. Watts. 2. That cannot be paid.

* INSOLUBLE. adj. [infoluble, Fr. infolubilis, Lat.] 1. Not to be cleared; not to be refolved. Admit this, and what shall the Scripture be but a fnare and a torment to weak confciences, filling them with infinite fcrupulofities, doubts infoluble,

and

and extreme despair? Hooker. 2. Not to be diffolved or feparated.--Stony matter may grow in any part of a human body; for when any thing infoluble fticks in any part of the body, it gathers a cruft about it. Arbuthnot.

* INSOLVENCY. n. f. [from infolvent.] Inability to pay debts. An act of infolvency is a law by which imprisoned debtors are releafed without payment,

INSOLVENT. adj. [in and folvo, Lat.] Unable to pay. By public declaration he proclaimed himself in folvent of those vaft fums he had taken upon credit. Howel.-A farmer accufed his guards for robbing him of oxen, and the emperor fhot the offenders; but demanding reparation of the accufer for fo many brave fellows, and finding him infolvent, compounded the matter by taking his life. Addifon.—An insolvent is a man that cannot pay his debts. Watts.

Infolvent tenant of incumber'd space. Smart. INSOMUCH. conj. [in so much.] 1. So that; to fuch a degree that.-It hath ever been the ufe of the conqueror to defpife the language of the conquered, and to force him to learn his; fo did the Romans always ufe, infomuch that there is no nation but is fprinkled with their language. Spenfer. To make ground fertile, afhes excel; infomuch as the countries about Etna have amends made them, for the mischiefs the eruptions do.Bacon.-Simonides was an excellent poet, infomuch that he made his fortune by it. L'Eftrange. -They made the uneven ground about their neft, infomuch that the flate did not lie flat upon it, but left a free paffage underneath, Addifon. 2. This word is growing obfolete.

* To INSPECT. v. a. [infpicio, infpe&um, Lat.] To look into by way of examination.

(1.)* INSPECTION. n.s. [inspection, Fr. infpectio, Lat.] 1. Prying examination; narrow and close Lurvey.

With narrow fearch, and with inspection deep, Confider every creature. Milton. -Our religion is a religion that dares to be understood; that offers itself to the search of the inquifitive, to the inspection of the severest and the moft awakened reafon; for, being fecure of her fubftantial truth and purity, fhe knows that for her to be feen and looked into, is to be embraced and admired, as there needs no greater argument for men to love the light than to fee it. South. 2. Superintendance; prefiding care. In the first fenfe it fhould have into before the object, and in the fecond fenfe may admit over; but authors confound them.-We may fafely conceal our good deeds, when they run no hazard of being diverted to improper ends, for want of our own inspection. Atterbury-We should apply ourselves to ftudy the perfections of God, and to procure lively and vigorous impreffions of his perpetual prefence with us, and infpection over us. Atterbury.-The divine inspection into the affairs of the world, doth neceffarily follow from the nature and being of God; and he that denies this, doth implicitly deny his existence. Bentley.

(2.) INSPECTION, TRIAL BY, OF BY EXAMINATION, is when, for the greater expedition of a caufe, in fome point or iffue, being either the prin

cipal queftion, or arifing collaterally out of it, but being evidently the object of fenfe, the judges of the court, upon the teftimony of their own fenfes, fhall decide the point in difpute. For, where the affirmative or negative of a question is matter of fuch obvious determination, it is not thought neceffary to fummon a jury to decide it; who are properly called in to inform the confcience of the court of dubious facts: and therefore, when the fact, from its nature, must be evident to the court, either from ocular demonftration or other irrefragable proof, there the law departs from its ufual refort, the verdict of 12 men, and relies on the judgment of the court alone. As in cafe of a fuit to reverfe a fine for non-age of the cognizor, or to fet afide a ftatute or cognizance entered into by an infant; here, and in other cafes of the like fort, a writ fhall iffue to the theriff, commanding him that he constrain the said party to appear, that it may be ascertained by the view of his body by the king's juftices, whether it be of full age or not: Ut per afpe&tum corporis fui conftare poterit jufliciariis noftris, fi prædičus an fit plena atatis necne. If, however, the court has, upon inspection, any doubt of the age of the party (as may frequently be the cafe), it may proceed to take proofs of the party; and particularly may examine the infant himself upon an oath of voir dire, veritatem dicere; that is, to make true answers to fuch questions as the court fhall demand of him; or the court may examine his mother, his god-father, or the like. (1.) INSPECTOR. n. f. [Latin.] A prying examiner.

With their new light our bold inspectors prefs, Like Cham, to flew their father's nakedness. Denham

2. A fuperintendent.-Young men may travel un der a wife infpector or tutor to different parts, that they may bring home ufeful knowledge. Watts.

(2.) INSPECTOR, (Heb. m, bbazen.) in the Jew. ifh fynagogue, an officer whofe bufinefs confifts particularly in infpecting the prayers and leffons in preparing and fhowing them to the reader, and ftanding by him to fee he reads right; and if he mistakes, to correct him.

(3.) INSPECTORS, in the Roman law, were fuch perfons as examined the quality and value of lands and effects, in order to the adjusting or pro portioning taxes and impofitions to every man's eftate.

* INSPERSION. n. f. [infperfio, Lat.] A fprink ling upon. Ainsworth.

*To INSPHERE. v. a. Lin and Sphere.] To place in an orb or sphere.

Where those immortal shapes
Of bright aerial fpirits live infpher'd,

In regions mild of calm and ferene air. Milton * INSPIRABLE. adj. [from inspire.] Which may be drawn in with the breath; which may be infufed.-To thefe infpirable hurts, we may enu merate those they sustain from their expiration of fuliginous fteams. Harvey.

(1.) * INSPIRATION. n.S. [from infpire.] 1 The act of drawing in the breath.-In any inflam mation of the diaphragm, the symptoms are: violent fever, and a moft exquifite pain increafed upon inspiration, by which it is diftinguished from

a pleurify