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Inspiration (in-spi-rā'shon), n. [L. inspira- Inspissate (in-spis'āt), a Thick; inspis- law, that which may be insisted on at one tio, inspirationis, from inspiro, to breathe sateu.

diet or course of probation.- Causes of ininto or upon, to inspire. See INSPIRE.) Inspissation (in-spis-a'shon), n. The act or stance, causes which proceed at the solicita1. The act of inspiring: (a) the act of draw- operation of rendering a fluid substance tion of some party.-- Instance Court, a branch ing air into the lungs; the inhaling of air; thicker hy evaporation, &c.

of the court of admiralty in England, disa part of respiration, and opposed to expi- Inspyre (in-spir'), v.t. (See INSPIRE.] To tinct from the prize-court, and having jurisration. See RESPIRATION. (6) The act of blow or breathe. Spenser.

diction in cases of private injuries to private breathing into anything. (c) The infusion Inst. Contraction for instant, used in cor- rights taking place at sea, or intimately conof ideas into the mind by the Holy Spirit; respondence, &c., for the cu ent or present nected with maritime subjects. the conveying into the minds of men ideas, month; as, he wrote me on the 10th inst., Instance (in'stans), v.i. pret.& pp. instanced; notices, or monitions by extraordinary or that is, on the 10th day of the present ppr. instancing. To receive illustration; to supernatural intluence: specifically, as used month.

be exemplised of the Scriptures or their authors, an intiu- Instability (in-sta-bil'i-ti), n. (Fr. instabi- This story doth not only instance in kingdoms, but ence of the Holy Spirit exercised on the un- lite; L. instabilitas, from instabilis, that in families too.

For. Taylor derstandings, imaginations, memories, and does not stand firm, unstable. See IN- Instance (in'stans), v.t. To mention as an other mental powers of the writers, by STABLE.) Want of stability: (a) want of example or case; to adduce as exemplifying means of which they were qualified for com- firmness in purpose; inconstancy; fickle- the matter in hand. municating to the world divine revelation, ness; mutability of opinion or conduct; as, I shall not instance an abstruse author. Multon. or the knowledge of the will of God, with- instability is the characteristic of weak out error or mistake. ---Plenary inspiration, minds. (6) Changeableness; mutability; as,

-To instance in, to give as an instance. that kind of inspiration which renders all the instability of laws, plans, or measures.

I need not instance in the habitual interperance of rich tables.

Fir, Taylor error in communicating the divine message 'Instability of temper.' Addison. (c) Want impossible. --Verbal inspiration, that kind of strength or firmness in construction: Instancy + (in'stan-si), n. Instance; urgency. of inspiration in which not only the matter liability to give way or fall; as, the insta

importunity. to be communicated is inspired, but the bility of an edifice. --SYN. Inconstancy,

Those heavenly precepts which our Lord and Saviour with so great instancy gave.

Hooker. exact words in which it is to be expressed. fickleness, changeableness, mutability, un2. A powerful influence emanating from any steadiness, unstableness.

Instant (in'stant), a. (L. instans, instantie, object, giving rise to new and elevatel Instable in-stabl), a. (L. instabilis in, ppr. of insto, to stand in or upon, to urge, thoughts or emotions; as, the inspiration not, and stabilis, able to stand, that stands

importune--in, and sto, to stand.) 1. Pressof the scene.-3. An elevation of the imagi- firmly, stable, from sto, to stand.) Not

ing; urgent; importunate; earnest. nation or other powers of the soul, often stable: (a) inconstant; prone to change or Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuresulting from extraordinary external influ- recede from a purpose; mutable: of per

ing instant in prayer.

Rom. xii. 12 ences; the state of being inspired; as, he sons. (0) Mutable; changeable. (c) Not 2. Immediate; without intervening time; was in a state of inspiration. ---4. That which sufficiently strong or firm; liable to give present. is conveyed to the mind when under some way or fall. [Unstable is more commonly Impending death is thine and instant dooin. Prior. extraordinary influence. used.]

3. Quick; making no delay. Holy inen at their death have good inspirations, Instableness (in-stābl-nes), n. Unstable

Instant he flew with hospitable haste. Pope. Shok. ness; mutability; instability. Inspirational (in-spi-rā'shon-al), a. Of or

4. Present; current; as, on the 10th of July Install (in-stal'), v. t. (Fr. installer-in, in, pertaining to inspiration, partaking of in- and O.H.G. stal, a place, E. stall. See STALL.]

instant. [Such an expression is usually ab

breviated to 10th inst. See INST.) spiration. West. Rev.

1. To place in a seat; to give a place to. Inspirationist (in-spi-rā'shon-ist), n. One

The instant tinie is always the fittest time. Fuller. who holds the doctrine of inspiration.

Mr. Weller, after duly installing Mr. Pickwick

and Mr. Winkle inside, took his seat on the box by Instant (in'stant), n. 1. A point in duration; Inspiratory (in-spir'a-to-ri), a. Pertaining the driver.

Dickens. a moment; a part of duration in which we to inspiration, or inhaling air into the lungs; 2. To set, place, or instate in an office, rank, perceive no succession, or a part that occuspecifically applied to certain muscles which or order; to invest with any charge, office,

pies the time of a single thought. by their contraction augment the capacity or rank with the customary ceremonies.

I grant you I was down and out of breath, and so of the chest, and thus produce inspiration, Installation (in-stąl-a'shon), n. 1. The act was he; but we rose both at an instani, and fought Inspire (in-spir“), v.i. pret. & pp. inspired;

Shak of giving possession of an office, rank, or

a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. ppr. inspiring: [L. inxpiro- in, and xpiro, order with the customary ceremonies, as a

She knew his step on the instant. Dickens. to breathe, whence spirit, expire, respire.) knight of the Garter in the Chapel of St. 2. A particular time. ‘At any unseasonable 1. To draw in breath; to inhale air into the George at Windsor, a chancellor in a uni- instant of the night.' Shak. lungs.--2. To blow gently. Spenser. versity, or a dean, prebendary, or other Instantaneity (in'stant-ā-nē"i-ti), n. The Inspire (in-spir), v.t. 1. To breathe into in

ecclesiastical dignitary in the stall of the quality of being instantaneous; instantaneorder to produce niusical sounds. cathedral to which he belongs.

ousness. Shenstone. Descend, ye nine, descend and sing. Upon the election the bishop gives a mandate for

Instantaneous (in-stant-ā'nē-us), a. [Fr. The breathing instruments inspire. Pope. his installation.

dyliffe. instantané; Sp. and It. instantaneo, from 2. To infuse or as if by breathing.

TI institut or ordination of an or

L. instans. See INSTANT.) Done in an inHe knew not his Maker, and he that inspired dained clergyman to a charge in the United

stant; occurring or acting without any perinto him an active soul.

Wisdom xv. II.
States.

ceptible lapse of time; very speedily; as, the 3. To infuse into the mind; to instil. Instalment(in-stallment), n. [See INSTALL.)

passage of electricity through any given I have been troubled in my sleep this night,

1. The act of installing or giving possession space appears to be instantaneous. But dawning day new comfort hath inspired. Shak. of an office with the usual ceremonies or

A whirlwind's instantaneous gust

Left all its beauties withering in the dust. Berzttie. 4. To infuse or suggest ideas or monitions

solemnities.

The instalment of this noble duke Instantaneously (in-stant-a'nē-us-li), adı, supernaturally; to communicate divine in

In the scat royal.

Shak. In an instant; in a moment; in an indivisible structions to the mind.---5. To animate by

2. The seat in which one is placed. (Rare.] supernatural infusion; to rouse; to animate

point of duration. in general.

Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest,

Instantaneousness (in-stant-a'nė-us-nes), With loyal blazon evermore be blest! Shak.

The quality of being instantaneous. Methinks I am a prophet new inspired. Shak. What zeal, what fury hath inspired' thee now! 3. In com. a part of a sum of money paid or

Instanter (in-stant'er), adv. [L., from inShak. to be paid at a period different from that at

stans. See INSTANT.) In law, immediately; 6. To draw in by the operation of breathing: which other parts or the balance is paid or

at the present time; without delay. The to draw into the lungs; as, to inspire and

agreed to be paid; as, a sum of money is

party was compelled to plead instanter, expire he air with difficulty.' Harvey. paid by instalments when paid in separate Instantly (in'stant-li), adv. 1. With urgency: Inspired (in-spird'), p. and a.

earnestly; with diligence and assiduity. 1. Breathed portions at different times. in; inhaled; infused.-2. Informed or direct- | Instamp (in-stamp'), v.t. Same as Enstamp. And when they came to Jesus, they besought him ed by the Holy Spirit; instructed or affected Instance (in'stans), n. [L. instantia, a

instantly, saying, that he was worthy for whom he should do this.

Luke vii. 4 by a superior influence.

standing upon or near, vehemence, imporNature

2. Immediately; without any intervening needs some inspired interpreter to

tunity, urgency, from instans. See INSTANT. ) make music of her stammering accents. Dr. Caird. 1. The act or state of being instant or urgent;

time; at once; as, lightning often kills insolicitation; importunity; application; ur

stantly 3. Produced under the direction or influence of inspiration; as, the inspired writings,

gency; as, the request was granted at the Instar (in-stär), v.t. [Prefix in, and star.) that is, the Scriptures. instance of the defendant's advocate. Mat

To set or adorn with stars or with brilliants. ters of instance.' Reynolds.

A golden throne Inspirer (in-spir'er), n. He that inspires.

In starr'd with gems.
But, Mr. Todd, surely there is no such instance in

7. Barlos. Inspiring (in-spir'ing), p. and a. 1. Breath

the business that ye could no' wait and look about Instate (in-stát), v.t. pret. & pp. instated; ing in; inhaling into the lungs; infusing

you.

Galt. into the mind supernaturally. -2. Infusing

ppr. instating. (Prefix in, and state.] 1. To 2. A case occurring; a case offered as an ex- set or place; to establish, as in a rank or spirit or courage, animating; as, inspiring

emplification or precedent; an example; an condition; as, to instate a person in great. strains. occurrence.

ness or in favour. Instated in the favour Inspirit (in-spi'rit), v.t. [Prefix in, and

The use of instances is to illustrate and explain a of God.' Atterbury.-- 2. To invest. spirit.) To infuse or excite spirit in; to en- dificulty.

Baker.

For his possessions, liven; to animate; to give new life to; to These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they

Although by confiscation they are ours, encourage; to invigorate.

were drawn up in the form of a law in the first in. We do instate and widow you withal. SANA.

Sir M. Hale. The courage of Agamemnon is inspirited by love

Instaurate (in-sta'rāt), v. t. (L. instauro, inof empire and ambition,

Pope.

Hence---3. Sign; symptom; token; proof. stauratum, to renew, to repair.) To reform; SYN. To enliven, invigorate, exhilarate, ani- They will scarcely believe this without trial: offer to repair. (Rare.) mate, inspire, rouse, cheer, encourage.

thein 271 stanices.

Shak. Instauration (in-sta-rā'shon), n. [Fr., from

I have received Inspissate (in-spis'at), v.t. pret. & pp. in

L instauratio, instaurationis, from instauro,

A certain instance that Glendower is dead. Shak, epissated; ppr. in pisaating. [L. inspisso,

to renew.) The restoration of a thing to inspissatum - in, intens., and spisso, to 4. + Impelling motive; influence; cause. its former state after decay, lapse, or dilathicken, from spissus, thick] To thicken, The instances that second marriage move

pidation; renewal; repair; re-establishment. as fluids, by boiling; to bring to greater Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. Shak,

*Some great catastrophe or ... instauraconsistence by evaporation.

5.1 Process of a suit. Ayliffe.-6. In Scots tion.' Burnet.

n.

stanice.

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Instaurator (in-sta'rāt-ér), n. One who re- stigation, impulse from instinguo, instinc- The theocracy of the Jews was instituted by God

himself, news or restores to a former condition. tum, to impel -- in, not, and stinguo, to

Sir W. Temple. (Rare.)

quench, nasalized form of root stig. ] 1. In 3. To ground or establish in principles; to Instauret (in-star), at To renew or reno- its widest sense, the power or energy by educate; to instruct. vate.

which all organized forms are preserved in If children were early instituted, knowledge would All things that show or breathe the individual or continued in the species. insensibly insinuate itself.

Dr. H. More. Are now instaured,

Marston.

In this sense it has been applied to plants 4. To set in operation; to begin; to comInstead in-sted'), adv. [A compound of in, as well as to animals, but it is more com

mence; as, to institute an inquiry; to instiand stead, place; stead retaining its charac- mon to consider instinct as belonging to tute a suit.-5. To nominate; to appoint, as ter of a noun, and being followed by of.] animals, in which case it is defined as a to an otfice. 1. In the place or room of.

certain power by which, independently of all Cousin of York we institute your grace Let thistles grow instead of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. instruction or experience and without de- To be our regent in these parts of France. Shak. 2. Equal or equivalent to.

liberation, animals are directed to do spon- 6. Eeclex. to invest with the spiritual part This very consideration, to a wise man, is instead

taneously whatever is necessary for the of a benefice or the care of souls. of a thousand arguments.

Tillotson,
preservation of the individual or the con-

Institute (in'sti-tút), n. [L. institutum, an tinuation of the kind. Such, in the human [When instead is used without of following,

arrangement, regulation, institution, from there is an ellipsis of a word or words that

species, is the instinct of sucking exerted instituo. See the verb.] 1. That which is would otherwise follow the of. ]

immediately after birth, and that of insects instituted or formally established, or es

in depositing their eggs in situations most Insteep (in-stēp'), v.t. [Prefix in, and steep. ]

tablished as authoritative or worthy of obfavourable for hatching. Instinct makes To steep or soak; to drench; to macerate in

servance : (a) an established law; settled animals provide for themselves and young, moisture. “Where in gore he lay insteeped.'

order. (6) Precept; maxim; principle. and utter those voices, betake themselves Shak.

To make the Stoic institutes thy own. Dryden, to that course of life, and use those means Instep (in'step), n. [Prefix in, and step. ) 1. The forepart of the upper side of the of self-defence, which are suitable to their

2. A scientific body; a society established circumstances and nature. The nest of the

according to certain laws or regulations for human foot, near its junction with the leg; the tarsus.--2. That part of the hind-leg of bird, the honey-comb of the bee, the web of

the furtherance of some particular object; a horse which reaches from the ham to the the spider, the threads of the silkworm, the

as, a philosophic institute, a literary institute, holes or houses of the beaver, are all exe

a mechanics' institute, an educational inpastern-joint.

cuted by instinct, and are not more perfect stitute, &c.; specifically, in France, the Instigate (in'sti-gāt), v. t. pret. & pp. insti

now than they were long ages ago. In the principal philosophical and literary society gated; ppr. instigating. (L. instigo, insti

beginning of life we do much by instinct of the nation, formed in 1795 by the union gatum-in, on, and root stig, to prick-allied to Gr. stizo, to mark with a pointed instru

and little by understanding; and even when of the four preceding royal academies.

arrived at maturity, there are innumerable 3. In Scots law, the person to whom the ment, to prick. See INSTINCT, STIGMA] To occasions on which, because reason cannot

estate is first given in a destination. Thus incite; to set on; to provoke; to urge: used chiefly or wholly in a bad sense; as, to in

guide us, we must be guided by instinct. where a person executing a settlement disstigate one to evil; to instigate to a crime.

The complex machinery of nerves and mus- pones his lands to A, whom failing, to B,

cles necessary to swallowing our food, whom failing, to C, &c., A is termed the 'If a servant instigates a stranger to kill his master.' Blackstone. - SYN. To stimulate,

walking, &c., is set agoing by instinct. The institute, and all who follow him in the sucmotion of our eyelids, and those sudden

cession are heirs, or substitutes, as they are urge, spur, provoke, tempt, incite, impel, motions which we make to avoid sudden

also termed.-4. pl. A book of elements or encourage, animate.

principles; particularly a work containing danger, are also instinctive. Instigatingly (in'sti-gāt-ing-li), ado. Incitingly; temptingly.

(An instind) is a propensity prior to experience

the principles of a system of jurisprudence; and independent of instruction,

Paley.

as, the Institutes of Justinian; the InstiInstigation (in-sti-gā'shon), n. [L. instigatio, instigationis, from instigo, to goad on,

By instinct I mean a natural blind impulse to cer.

tutes of Gaius; Erskine's Institutes of the tain actions without having any end in view, without Law of Scotland. -Institutes of medicine, to instigate. See INSTIGATE.) The act of deliberation, and very often without any conception that department of the science of medicine instigating; incitement, as to evil or wicked- of what we do.

keid.

which attempts to account philosophically ness; the act of encouraging to commit a An instind is a blind tendency to some mode of for the various phenomena that present crime or some evil act; temptation; impulse action independent of any consideration, on the part

themselves during health as well as in to evil.

of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.

Inately, disease; the theory of medicine or theoretiAs if the lives that were taken away by his insti

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and cal medicine. gation were not to be charged upon his account.

Sir R. L'Estrange.
ignorantiy a work of intelligence and knowledge. Institution (in-sti-tū'shon), n. [L. institutio,

Sir W. Hamilton.
The baseness and villany that both the corruption

institutionis, from instituo. See INSTITUTE.) of nature and the instigution of the devil could bring 2. Natural feeling or sense of what is correct 1. The act of instituting: (a) establishment; the sons of men to.

South. or effective in artistic matters or the like enactment. * The institution of God's laws Instigator (in'sti-gāt-ér), n. One who or Few men are born with the dramatic instind any

by solemn injunction.' Ilooker, (b) that which incites a person to an evil act; a more than with the rhetorical; and without some Education; instruction. tempter

share of that instinct, reading always wants the viva-
city of the utterance of one's thoughts. Sal. Rev.

His learning was not the effect of precept or in. Instil (in-stil'), v.t. pret. & pp. instilled;

Bentley

To impress, as ppr, instilling. (L. instillo--in, and stillo, Instinct t (in-stingkt), v.t.

(c) Eccles. the act or ceremony of investing to drop.] 1. To pour in by drops. by an animating power; to impress as an

a clerk with the spiritual part of a benefice, instinct. “Unextinguishable beauty. imThe starlight dews

by which the care of souls is committed to All silently their tears of love instil. Byron. pressed and instincted through the whole.'

his charge. -- 2. That which is instituted: Hence-2. Applied to the mind or feelings,

Bentley.

Instinct

(a) established order, method, or custom; to infuse slowly or by degrees; to cause to Instinction t (in-stingk'shon), n.

whatever is enjoined by authority as a perSir T. Elyot. be imbibed; to insinuate imperceptibly; as,

manent rule of conduct or of government; to instil good principles into the mind. Instinctive (in-stingktiv), a. Prompted by

enactment; law.
instinct; not due to reasoning, deliberation,
The soft delights, that witchingly

The American institutions guarantee to the citiinstruction, or experience; determined by Instil a wanton sweetness through the breast.

zens all the privileges essential to freedom. Thomson. natural impulse or propensity; original to

Boutier. - Implant, Ingraft, Inculcate, Instil, Inthe mind; spontaneous.

(6) A system, plan, or society established

Raised fuse. See under IMPLANT.

either by law or by the authority of indiInstillation (in-stil-ä'shon), n.

Milton.
(L. instilla-
By quick instinctive motion, up 1 sprung.

viduals for promoting any object, public or tio, instillationis, from instillo. See INSTIL.]

The terms instinctive belief, instinctive judgment, social; as, a literary institution; a charitable 1. The act of pouring in by drops or by small

instinctive cognition, are expressions not ill adapted
to characterize a belief, judgment, or cognition,

institution; a commercial institution. quantities. --- 2. The act of infusing slowly which, as the result of no anterior consciousness, is, 3.1 A system of the elements or rules of any into the mind.-3. That which is instilled or like the products of animal instinct, the intelligent art or science; a treatise or text-book. infused.

effect of (as far as we are concerned) an unknown

Sir W. Hamilton.

There is another manuscript, of above three hunThey embitter the cup of life by insensible instilla.

dred years old, ... being an institution of physic. tions. Johnson. Instinctively (in-stingktiv-li), adv.

Erelin. Instillator (in'stil-at-ér), n. One who in- instinctive manner; by force of instinet; 4. Something forming a prominent feature stils or infuses; an instiller. Coleridge. without reasoning, instruction, or experi- in social or national life. (Colloq.] (Rare.] ence; by natural impulse.

The camels form an institution of India-possibly

The Instillatory (in-stil'a-to-ri), a. Relating to Instinctivity (in - stingk-tiv'i-ti), n.

a part of the traditional policy, and they must be reinstillation. quality of being instinctive or prompted by

spected accordingly.

Times new spaper. Instiller (in-stil'ér), n. He that instils. So instinct

Institutional (in-sti-tū'shon-al), a. 1. Reartful an instiller of loose principles.' Philip There is growth only in plants; but there is irrit.

lating to institutions; instituted by authoSkelton.

ability, or-a better word-instinctivity, in insects. rity; enjoined. – 2. Relating to elementary Instilment (in-stil'ment), n. 1. The act of

Coleridge. knowledge; elementary; institutionary. instilling: -2. Anything instilled.

Instinctly (in'stingkt-li), adv. Instinct- Institutionary (in-sti-tū’shon-a-ri), a. 1. ReInstimulate t (in-stim'ü-lat), v.t. [Prefix ively

lating to an institution or to institutions. in, intens., and stimulate.) To stimulate; to

M. drew her ruffled, luxuriant hair instinctly over 2. Containing the first principles or docthe cut.

Mrs. Gaskell. excite.

trines; elemental ; rudimentary. InstituInstimulation (in-stim'ū-lā"shon), n. [Pre- Instipulate (in-stipū-lät), a. ( Prefix in, tionary rules.' Sir T. Broune.

fix in, intens., and stimulation.) The act of not, and stipulate.] In bot. having no stip- | Institutist (in'sti-tūt-ist), n. A writer of stimulating, inciting, or urging forward. ules.

institutes or elementary rules and instrucInstinct (in-stingkt'), a. [L. instinctus. See Institute (in'sti-tūt), v.t. pret. & pp. insti. tions. the noun.] Urged or stimulated from with- tuted; ppr. instituting. (1. instituo, insti. Institutive (in'sti-tut-iv), a. 1. Tending or in; moved; animated; excited. 'Betulia ... tutum - in, and statuo, to cause to stand, to intended to institute or establish. 'Instiinstinct with life.' Faber. set, place, from sto, statum, to stand.] 1. To

tutive . :.

of power.' Barrow.--2. EstabWhat betrays the inner essence of the man must

set up; to establish; to enact; to ordain; as, lished; depending on institution. be so grasped and rendered (by the painter) that all to institute laws; to institute rules and re- Institutively (in'sti-tūt-iv-li), adv.

In acthat meets the eye-look, attitude, action, expression gulations. -- 2. To originate and establish; cordance with an institution. Harrington. -shall be instind with meaning. Dr. Caird. to found; as, to institute a new order of no- Institutor (in'sti-tūt-ér), n. (L.) One who Instinct (in'stingkt), n. (L. instinctus, in- bility; to institute a court.

institutes: (a) one who enacts laws, rites,

stitution.

cause.

In an

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and ceremonies, and enjoins the observance Instructress (in-strukt'res), n. A female Insubmission (in-sub-mi'shon), n. [Prefix of them. (6) One who founds an order, who instructs; a preceptress; a tutoress. in, not, and submission.) Want of submissect, society, or scheme for the promotion Instructrice (in-struk'tris), n. Same as sion; disobedience. of a public or social object. (c) An in- Instructress. Sir T. Elyot.

Insubordinate (in-sub-or'din-át), a. (Prefix structor; one who educates. 'Every insti- Instrument (in'stru-ment), n. [Fr., from in, not, and subordinate.) Not subordinate tutor of youth.' Walker. (d) In the Epis- L. instrumentum, from instruo, to prepare, or submissive; not submitting to authority; copal Ch.a presbyter appointed by the bishop that which is prepared.] 1. That by which mutinous; riotous. to institute a rector or assistant minister in work is performed or anything is effected; Insubordination (in-sub-or'din-a"shon), it. a parish church.

a tool; a utensil; an implement, as a knife, The quality of being insubordinate: want of Instop (in-stop), v.t. (Prefix in, and stop. ) a hammer, a saw, a plough, &c.; as, the in- subordination; disorder; disobedience to To stop; to close; to make fast.

struments of a mechanic; astronomical in- lawful authority; mutiny. With boiling pitch another near at hand

struments. All the lofty instruments of The insubordination of the demoralized army was (From friendly Sweden brought) the seams instops. war.' Shak.-2. One who or that which is beyond the influence of even the most popular of the Dryden. subservient to the execution of a plan or generals.

Arnold Instratified (in-stra'ti-fīd), a. [Prefix in, purpose, or to the production of any effect; Insubstantial (in-sub-stan'shal), a. [Prewithin, and stratified.) Stratified within

means used or contributing to an effect; as, fix in, not, and substantial.) Not substansomething else.

bad men are often instruments of ruin to tial; unsubstantial; not real. InsubstanInstruct (in-strukt), v.t. [L. instruo, in- others.

tial pageant.' Shak. structum- in, and struo, to join together, to

The bold are but the instruments of the wise. Insubstantiality (in-sub-stan'shal”i-ti), n. pile up.] 1. To put in order; to form; to

Dryden. Unsubstantiality. (Rare.) prepare.

All voluntary self-denials and austerities which
They speak to the merits of a cause, after the proc.
Christianity commends become necessary, not simply

Insuccation (in-suk-kā'shon), n. [From L. tor has prepared and instructed the same for a for themselves, but as instruments towards a higher

insucco, insuccatum, to soak, to steep-in, hearing before the judge.

Aylille.
end.

Dr. H. More. and succus, sucus, sap, juice, from sugo, 2. To teach; to inform the mind of; to edu

3. Any mechanical contrivance constructed suctum, to suck.) The act of soaking or cate; to impart knowledge or information for yielding mu sounds, as an organ,

moistening; maceration; solution in the to; to enlighten; as, the first duty of parents

harpsichord, violin, or flute, &c.-4. In law, juice of herbs. The medicating and insucis to instruct their children in the princia writing instructing one in regard to

cation of seeds.' Evelyn. [Rare.] something that has been agreed upon; a

Insucken (in'suk-n), a. ples of religion and morality; on this ques.

(Prefix in, and tion the court is not instructed. - 3. To writing containing the terms of a contract,

sucken (which see). ) In Scots law, a term direct or command; to furnish with orders; as a deed of conveyance, a grant, a patent,

applied, in the servitude of thirlage, to the to direct; to enjoin; as, the government an indenture, &c. --Implement, Instrument,

multures exigible from the suckeners or instructed the envoy to insist on the reTool. See TOOL.

parties astricted to the mill. These mulstitution of the property.

Instrumental (in-stri-ment'al), a. 1. Con- tures, having been originally composed in ducive as an instrument or means to some

part of a premium to the proprietor of the She, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. end; contributing or serving to promote or

mill, exceed in amount what may be called effect an object; helpful; serviceable; as, the

the market price of grinding. Mat. xiv. 8.

See MUL4. In Scots law, to adduce evidence in sup- press has been instrumental in enlarging

TURES, OUTSUCKEN, and THIRLAGE. port of; to confirm; to vouch; to verify; as, the bounds of kuowledge. * Instrumental Insuetude (in'swē tūd), n. [L. insuetudo, to instruct a claim against a bankrupt causes.' Raleigh.

from insuetus, unaccustomed--in, not, and estate. The head is not more native to the heart,

euesco, suetum, to be accustomed.) The We must be pardoned for observing that we should The hand more instrumental to the mouth. Shak. state of being unaccustomed or unused; unhave wished the connection of the first clauses of this sentence and the last had been instructed by some. 2. Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for

usualness; absence of use or custom. thing better than an .and.' Sir W. Hamilton. instruments, especially musicalinstruments; Absurdities are great or small in proportion to cusas, instrumental music: distinguished from

tom or insuctude.

Landor. SYN. To teach, educate, inform, indoctrinate, enlighten, direct, enjoin, order, com

vocal music, which is made by the hunxan Insufferable (in-suf'fér-a-bl), a. (Prefix in, mand. voice.

not, and sufferable.) Not sufferable: (a) inInstructt (in-strukt'), a. 1. Furnished;

Sweet voices, mixed with instrumental sounds. capable of being suffered, borne, or endured;

Dryden, equipped. Ships instruct with oars.' Chap

insupportable; intolerable; unendurable; as, man.-2. Instructed; taught.

Instrumentalist (in-stry-ment' al-ist), n. insufferable heat, cold, or pain; our wrongs

One who plays upon a musical instrument. are insufferable. (6) Disgusting beyond enWho ever by consulting at thy shrine

Instrumentality (in'stry-ment-al"'i-ti), n. durance; detestable.
Returned the wiser, or the more instruct,
To fly or follow what concerned him most?

The condition or quality of being instru- A multitude of scribblers, who daily pester the

Milton. mental; subordinate or auxiliary agency; world with their insufferable stuff. Dryden, Instructer (in-strukt'ér), n. An instructor agency of anything as means to an end; as, Insufferably (in-suf'fér-a-bli), adv. (which see). Hale.

the instrumentality of second causes. “The insufferable manner; to a degree beyond Instructible (in-struk’ti-bl), a. Able to be instrumentality of faith in justification.'

endurance; as, a blaze insufferably bright; instructed; teachable; docile.

Burnet.

a person insufferably proud. Instruction (in-struk'shon), n. [L. instruc- Instrumentally (in-stry-ment'al-li), adv. Insufficience (in-suf-fi'shens), n. tio, instructionis, from instruo, to pile upon, In an instrumental manner: (a) by way of

sufficientia, insufficiency.] Insufficiency. to build. See INSTRUCT.) 1. The act of in- an instrument; in the nature of an instru

[Rare.) structing; the act of teaching or informing ment; as means to an end.

We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses. the understanding in that of which it was A. . . principle of holiness, wrought chiefly by unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they before ignorant; information.

God's Spirit, and instrumentally by his word, in the cannot praise us, as little accuse us. Shu zk. heart or soul of a man.

South. Those discoveries and discourses they have left

Insufficiency (in-suf-fi'shen-si), n. ( Prefix behind thein for our instruction. Locke. (6) With instruments of music. “Musical

in, not, and sufficiency.) The condition or 2. That which is communicated for the pur- devotion . . . instrumentally accompanied.'

quality of being insufficient: (a) deficiency; pose of instructing; that with which one is Mason.

inadequateness; as, an insufficiency of proinstructed: (a) precept conveying knowInstrumentalness (in-strų-mental-nes), n.

visions to supply the garrison. (6) Want of ledge; teaching The condition or quality of being instru

power or skill; inability; incapacity; incomReceive

mental; usefulness, as of means to an end;
instruction, and not silver.
my

petency; as, the insuficiency of a man for Prov. viii. 1o. instrumentality.

an office. (6) Direction; order; command; mandate; Instrumentary (in-stry-ment'a-ri), a. 1. Con- Insufficient (in-suf-fi'shent), a. (Prefix in, as, the minister received instructions from ducive to an end, instrumental.--2. In Scots

not, and suficient.] Not sufficient: (a) inhis so reign to demand a categorical an

law, of
pertaining to a legal instrument;

adequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, swer. - Instruction, Education. Instruc- as, instrumentary witnesses.

the provisions are insufficient in quantity tion has for its object the communication Instrumentation (in'stry-ment-a"shon), n.

and defective in quality (0) Wanting in of knowledge; education includes a great 1. The act of employing as an instrument.

strength, power, ability, or skill; incapable; deal more than instruction, having for its 2. Instruments collectively; hence, a series object the development of the natural

unfit; as, a person insuficient to discharge or combination of instruments calculated to

the duties of an office, powers of the mind and of the moral na- effect an end; agency; means. (Rare.) ture by means of instruction and proper

The bishop to whom they shall be presented may Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation justly reject them as incapable and insufficient. discipline; it is intended to make men for our human use or handling of so great a fact and

Sponser. wiser as well as better. -- SYN. Education, our personal appropriation of it, ... no fit mediuin

In Insufficiently (in-suf-fi'shent-li), adv.

H. Bushnell. teaching, indoctrination, information, adof thought respecting it.

an insufficient manner; with want of suffivice, counsel, command, order, mandate. 3. In music, (a) the art of arranging music

ciency; with want of proper ability or skill; Instructional (in-struk'shon-al), a. Relatfor a combined number of instruments.

inadequately. ing to instruction; promoting education;

(6) The music arranged for performance by Insufflation (in-suf-flā'shon), n. (L. insufeducational Eclec. Rev. a number of instruments. (c) The art or

fatio, insufflationis, from insuffio, to blow Instructive (in-strukt'iv), a. (Fr. instructif, manner of playing on an instrument; execu

or breathe up into-in, into, and sutilo, to instructive. ] Conveying knowledge; serving tion; as, his instrumentation was defective.

blow from below--sub, under, and flo, to to instruct or inform.

Instrumentist (in'strų-ment-ist), n. A per- blow.] The act of blowing or breathing on I would not laugh but to instruct; or if my mirth former upon a musical instrument; an in

or into; as, in the R. Cath. Ch. the breathing ceases to be instructive, it shall never cease to be struinentalist.

upon a baptized person to signify the exinnocent.

Addison. Instylet (in-stil'), v.t. To call; to denomiInstructively (in-strukt'iv-li), adv.

pulsion of the devil, and to symbolize the In an nate. Crashaw.

gift of the Holy Spirit. instructive manner; so as to afford instruc- Insuavity (in-swa'vi-ti), n. [Prefix in, not, tion. and suavity.] Want of suavity; unpleasant

They would speak less slightingly of the issuefa

rion and extreme unction used in the Romish Church. Instructiveness (in-strukt'iv-nes), n. The ness.

Coleridge. quality of being instructive; power of in- Insubjection (in-sub-jek'shon), n. [Prefix Insuiti (in'sūt), n. A suit; a request. structing in, not, and subjection.) Want of subjec

And, in fine, Instructor (in-struktér), n. (L.) One who tion; state of disobedience to government. Her insuit coming with her modern grace, instructs; a teacher; a person who imparts Insubmergible (in-sub-merj'i-bl), a. (Prefix

Subdu'd me to her rate.

Shal. knowledge to another by precept or infor- in, not, and submerge (which see).) Incap- [Most modern editions have infinite cunmation. able of being submerged.

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Insuitable (in-sūt'a-bl), a. (Prefix in, not, -- Affront, Insult, Outrage. See under company, in consideration of a sum of and suitable.) Unsuitable. (Rare.)

AFFRONT. -SYN. Affront, indignity, outrage, money, or percentage (technically called a Insular (in'sú-lér), a. [L. insularis, from contumely.

premium), becomes bound to indemnify the insula, an island.) 1. Of or pertaining to an Insult (in-sult'), v.t. (Fr. insulter; L. in. insured or his representatives against loss island; surrounded by water; as, an insular sulto, freq. of insilo, insultum, to leap ipon. by certain risks. This contract is termed a situation. Their insular abode.' Byron. -- See the noun.] 1. To leap upon or trample policy of insurance. The best known and 2. Of or pertaining to the opinions or views under foot. Shak. --- 2. To treat with gross most important kinds of insurances are of people inhabiting an island; hence, nar- abuse, insolence, or contempt, by words or marine insurance, life insurance, and fire row; contracted; as, insular prejudices. actions; to commit an indignity upon; to insurance. Marine insurance is the term Insular (in'sū-ler), n. One who dwells in an treat abusively; as, to call a man a coward used for the insurance on ships, goods, &c., island; an islander. Bp. Berkeley. [Rare.] or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult at sed. Fire insurance is for the insuring Insularity (in-su-la'ri-ti), n. The state of him.-3. Milit to make a sudden, open, and of property on shore from fire. Life insurbeing insular: (a) the condition of a coun- bold attack on. (Rare.)

ance is for securing the payment of a certry which consists of one or more islands. An enemy is said to insult a coast when he sud- tain sum, to friends or trustees, at the death The insularity of Britain was first shown by Agri

denly appears upon it, and debarks with an inue. of the individual insured, or for securing cola, who sent his fleet round it. Pinkerton.

diate purpose to attack.

Stocqueler. the payment of a sum at a given age, or of (6) Narrowness or contractedness of views Insult (in-sult'), v. i.

1. To leap upon. an annuity. Various other risks may also or opinions from living on an island.

Like the frogs in the apologue, insulting upon

be insured against, as accidents in railway Insularly in ́sū-lèr-li), adv. In an insular

their wooden king.

Fer. Taylor, travelling, damage to farm stock or crops, manner.

2. To behave with insolent triumph. — To &c. --2. The premium paid for insuring proInsulary (in'sū-la-ri), a. Same as Insular. insult over, to triumph over with insolence perty or life. Insurance broker, one whose * Insulary advantages.' Howell. (Rare.) and contempt. 'An unwillingness to insult business is to procure the insurance of vesInsulate (in'sū-lát), v.t. pret. & pp. insu- over their helpless fatuity.' Landor.

sels at sea, or bound on a voyage.--Insurlated; ppr. insulating. [L. insula, an isle.] Insultation (in-sult-a'shon), n. [L. insul- ance company, a company or corporation 1. To make an island of. tatio, insultationis, a springing or leaping

whose business is to insure against loss or The Eden here forms two branches and insulates over; a scoffing, from insulto, to spring damage.- Insurance policy. See above. the ground.

Pennant. upon. See INSULT.) The act of insulting; Insurancert (in-shör'ans-ér), n. Au insurer; 2. To place in a detached situation, or in a

abusive treatment. The impudent insult- an underwriter. state to have no communication with sur

ations of the basest of the people.' Pri- Insure (in-shor'), v.t. pret. & pp. insured; rounding objects or with other bodies; to deaux.

ppr. insuring. (Prefix in, intens., and sure.] isolate. Insulter (in-sult'ér), n. One who insults.

1. To make sure or secure; to ensure; as, to In Judaism, the special and insulated situation of • Paying what ransom the insulter willeth.' insure safety to any one. Specifically --the Jews has unavoidably impressed an exclusive Shak.

2. To secure against a possible loss or damage bias upon its principles.

De Quincey. Insulting (in-sulting), a. Containing or on certain stipulated conditions, or at a 3. In elect, and thermotics, to separate, as an conveying gross abuse; as, insulting lan- given rate of premium; to make a subject of electrified or heated body, from other bodies guage.-Insolent, Insulting. See INSOLENT. insurance; to assure; as, a merchant inby the interposition of non-conductors. - Insultingly (in-sulting-li), adv. In an in- sures his ship or its cargo, or both, against 4. To free from combination with other sub- sulting manner; with insolent contempt; the dangers of the sea; houses are insured stances, as a chemical substance. with contemptuous triumph.

against fire; lives are insured that a sum Insulated (in'sū-lāt-ed), p. and a. 1. Stand- Insultment (in-sult' ment), n. Act of in- of money may be paid at death or after a ing by itself; not being contiguous to other sulting; insult. 'My speech of insultment.' certain number of years; and sometimes bodies; as, a house or building is said to be Shak.

hazardous debts are insured.- Ensure, Ininsulated when it is detached from any Insumet (in-sūm'), v.t. (L. insumo--in, and sure, Assure. See under ENSURE. other house or building; a column is said sumo, to take.] To take in. The emulgent Insure (in-shör), v.i. To undertake to to be insulated when it stands out free veins, which insume and convey the nour- secure persons against loss or damage on from a wall. ishment to the whole tree.' Evelyn.

receipt of a certain payment; to make inTwo forms are slowly shadowed on my sight, Insuperability (in-sū'pėr-a-bil"i-ti), n. surance; as, this company insures at a low Two insulated phantoms of the brain. Byron. The quality of being insuperable.

premium. 2. In elect, and thermotics, separated, as an Insuperable (in-sū'per-a-bl), a. (Prefix in, Insurer (in-shör'ér), n. One who insures ; electrified or heated body, from other bodies not, and superable.) Not superable; incap- the person who contracts to pay the losses by the interposition of non-conductors. - able of being passed over; incapable of be- of another for a premium ; an underwriter. 3. In astron. a term applied to a star situ- ing overcome or surmounted; as, insuper- Insurgency (in-serjen-si), n. The act or ated at so great a distance from any other able difficulties, objections, or obstacles.

condition of being insurgent; state of inthat the influence of attraction is insensible. Nothing is insuperable to pains and patience. Ray.

surrection. Dr. R. Vaughan. 4. In chem. separated from combination

And middle natures, how they long to join,

Insurgent (in-sér'jent), a. (L. insurgens, with other substances.

Yet never pass th' insuperable line. Pope. insurgentis, ppr. of insurgo, to rise upon or Insulation (in-su-la'shon), n. The act of Syn. Insurmountable, impassable, uncon

against--in, and surgo, to rise.] Rising in insulating, or the state of being insulated: querable, invincible.

opposition to lawful civil or political au(a) the act of detaching, or the state of Insuperableness (in-sü'per-a-bl-nes), n.

thority, or against any constituted governbeing detached from other objects. (b) In The quality of being insuperable or insur

ment; insubordinate; rebellious; as, insurelect, and thermotics, that state in which the mountable.

gent chiefs. The insurgent provinces.' communication of electricity, or heat to Insuperably (in-sū'per-a-bli), adv.

Motley. other bodies is prevented by the interposition of non-conductors. (c) The act of setinsuperable manner; in a manner or degree Insurgent (in-sér'jent), n.

A person who ting free from combination, as a chemical Insupportable (in-sup-port'a-bl), a. (Prefix not to be overcome; insurmountably.

rises in opposition to civil or political au

thority; one who openly and actively resists body. in, not, and supportable.) Not supportable;

the execution of laws. Insurgent, Rebel. Insulator (in'sū-lāt-ér), n. One who or that incapable of being supported or borne; in

An insurgent differs from a rebel in holding which insulates; specifically, a substance or sufferable; intolerable; as, the weight or

a less pronounced position of antagonism, body that insulates or interrupts the com- burden is insupportable. Pestilent and

and may or may not develop into a rebel. munication of electricity or heat to surinsupportable summer.' Bentley.

The insurgent opposes the execution of a rounding objects; a non-conductor. The

The thought of being nothing after death is a bur

particular law or laws, or the carrying out cuts show the den insupportable to a virtuous man. Dryden.

of some particular scheme or measure; the usual form of in

rebel attempts to overthrow or change the sulator employ: 3

Insupportableness (in-sup-port'a-bl-nes), ed in telegraph n. The quality of being insupportable; in

government, or he revolts and attempts to lines to support sufferableness; the state of being beyond

place his country under another jurisdic

tion. endurance. the wire on the post. They are Insupportably. (in-sup-port'a-bli), adv. In

Insurmountability. (in-sér-mount'a-bil"i

ti), n. The state of being insurmountable. frequently made a manner or degree that cannot be sup

Insurmountable (in - sér - mount'a-bl), a. of porcelain or ported or endured.

(Prefix in, not, and surmountable.) Not glass, and in the

Insupposable (in-sup-poz'a-bl), a. (Prefix
Insulator.

surmountable; incapable of being surshape of an inin, not, and supposable. ] Not supposable;

mounted, passed over, or overcome; as, an verted cup, with the wire wrapped round incapable of being supposed.

insurmountable wall or rampart; an insurit, attached by a hook depending from it, Insuppressible (in-sup-pres’i-bl), a. (Pre

mountable difficulty, obstacle, or impedior the like. fix in, not, and suppressible.) Not suppres

ment. Insulous (in'sū - lus), a. Abounding in

sible; incapable of being suppressed or

concealed. islands. (Rare.)

Hope thinks nothing difficult; despair tells us that difficulty is insurmountable.

Walls. Insulset (in-suls), a. [L. insulsus-prefix Insuppressibly (in-sup-pres'i-hli), adv. In in, not, and salsus, salted, from salo, sallo, a manner or degree that cannot be sup

Insurmountableness (in-sér-mount'a-bl

nes), n. State of being insurmountable. to salt, from sal, salt.

friend altfectation. Insuppressive (in-sup-pres’iv), a. (Prefix Insurmountably (in-sėr-mount'a-bli), adv. insipid. Insulse and frigid affectation.

In an insurmountable manner; in a manner Milton.

in, not, and suppressive.] 1. Not suppresInsulsityt (in-sul si-ti), n.

or degree not to be overcome. Dulness; stu

sive; not tending to suppress. – 2. Incapable Insurrection (in-ser-rek'shon), n. (L. inpidity; insipidity. The insulsity of mortal

of being suppressed; insupressible. The tongues.' Milton. insuppressive mettle of our spirits.' Shak.

surrectio, insurrectionis, a rising up, insur

See

rection, from insurgo, insurrectum. Insult (in'sult), n. (Fr, insulte; L. insultus,

Insurable (in-shor'a-bl), a. Capable of being from insilio, insultum, to leap on-in, and insured against loss, damage, death, and the

INSURGENT.) 1. The act of rising against salio, to leap.) 1.7 The act of leaping on. like; proper to be insured.

civil or political authority; the open and

active opposition of a number of persons to The bull's insult at four she may sustain. Dryden.

The French law annuls the latter policies so far as

the execution of some law or the carrying they exceed the insurable interest which remained 2. Any gross abuse offered to another, either in the insured at the time of the subscription thereof.

out of some measure in a city or country. by words or actions; act or speech of inso

Walsh.

It is found that this city of old time hath made inlence or contempt.

Insurance (in-shör'ans), n. 1. The act of surrection against kings, and that rebellion and sediinsuring; the act of assuring against loss or

tion have been inade therein. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief.

Ezra iv. 19. Savage. damage; a contract by which a person or 2. A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. (Rare.)

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Insurrection, Sedition, Rebellion, Revolt, entire entity; particularly, in arith. a whole 3. A genuine, unadulterated, unimpaired Mutiny. Insurrection is equivalent to sedi- number, in contradistinction to a fraction; state; purity. tion, except that sedition expresses a less thus, in the number 5+7, 54 is an integer, Language continued long in its purity and integrity. extensive rising of citizens. It ditfers from and 7 a fraction, or seven -tenths of a

Sir M. Hale. rebellion, for the latter expresses an at- unit.

Integro-pallial (in'tē-grõ-pal"i-al), a. tempt to overthrow the government, to Integral (in'tė-gral), a. (See INTEGER. ] zool. having a pallial line unbroken in its establish a different one, or to place the 1. Comprising all the parts: whole; entire; curvature; of or pertaining to the Integrocountry under another jurisdiction. It uninjured; complete; not defective.

pallialia. differs from mutiny, as being a rising

A local motion keepeth bodies integral.

Integro-pallialia (in'te-gro-pal-i-a'li-a), n.

Bacon. against the civil or political government;

pl. A subdivision of the lamellibranchiate

No wonder if one remain speechless, though of whereas a mutiny is an open opposition to

molluscs, in which the pallial line in the integral principles, who, from an infant, should be law in the army or navy, A revolt is a less bred up amongst mutes, and have no teaching

interior is unbroken in its curvature and strony form of a rebellion.

Holder. presents no indentation, and which have Insurrectional (in-sér-rek'shon-al), a. Per- 2. In math. (a) of or pertaining to, or being either no siphons or short unretractile taining to insurrection; consisting in insur

a whole number or undivided quantity. siphons. rection

(b) Pertaining to or proceeding by integra. Integumation (in-tegʻū-mā"shon), n. [See Insurrectionary (in-ser-rek’shon-a-ri), a. tion; as, the integral method. --

- Integral INTEGUMENT.) That part of physiology Pertaining or suitable to insurrection.

calculus, a branch of mathematical ana- which treats of the integuments of animals Whilst the sansculottes gallery instantly recognized

lysis which is the inverse of the differen- and plants. their old insurrectionary acquaintance. Burke.

tial calculus. In the differential calculus Integument (in-tegʻū-ment), n. [L. integu.

the object is to derive from a proposed mentum, intego, to cover-in, intens., and Insurrectionist (in-sér-rek'shon-ist), n. One

function another which is called its differ- tego, to cover.) That which naturally invests who favours or excites insurrection; an in

ential, and thence the expression which is or covers another thing, as the covering of surgent. termed its ditferential coefficient. In the

the body of all animals above the Protozoa, Insusceptibility (in-sus-sept'i-bil''i-ti). n.

integral calculus the object is the reverse of whether it remains soft as in worms, or The state or lity of being insusceptible;

this--the deriving of the primitive function is hardened by lime as in crustaceans and want of susceptibility or capacity to feel or

from its differential, or its differential co- molluscs, or chitin as in insects. The term perceive.

efficient, and hence the elementary rules of is also used for the skin of seeds, but there Insusceptible (in-sus-sept'i-bl), a. (Prefix

the integral calculus are obtained by revers- is no similarity between animal and vegetin, not, and susceptible.] Not susceptible :

ing those of the differential calculus. In able integuments save that they cover some(a) not capable of being moved, affected, or

thing. impressed; as, a limb insusceptible of pain;

this branch of analysis the primitive func

tion is usually called the integral of the Integumentary (in-teg'u-ment"a-ri), a. a heart insusceptible of pity. (6) Not cap- proposed differential, and the process is Belonging to or composed of integuments; able of receiving or admitting. Insuscepttermed integration.

covering ible of any farther concoction.' Wotton.

1. A whole; an en- Integumentation(in-tegʻü-ment-ā"shon).n. Insusceptive (in-sus-sept'iv), a. (Prefix in, Integral (in'tē-gral), n.

tire thing. -2. In math. the function or 1. The act of covering with integument; the not, and susceptire. ) Not susceptive; in

sum of any proposed differential quantity. state of being thus covered.-2. That part of capable of admitting or receiving; not susceptible or receptive.

It is denoted by the symbols. Thus /Xdx, physiology which treats of integuments. Insusurrationt (in'sū-ser-rā"shon), n. [L. denotes the integral of the differential Xdx, Intellect (in'tel-lekt), n. [Fr., from L. intel

lectus, from intelligo, to understand. See insilsurratio, insusurrationis, from insu- or the function whose differential is Xdx. surro, to whisper into, to insinuate

INTELLIGENCE. ) 1. That faculty of the human in, Integrality (in-te-gral'i-ti), n. The quality soul or mind which receives or comprehends into, and susurro, to murmur, to whisper.] of being integral; entireness. [Rare.] the ideas communicated to it by the senses, The act of whispering into something.

Such as in their integrality support nature.

or by perception, or by other means, as disInswathe (in-swath'), v.t. To swathe in; to

Whitaker. enwrap; to infold. "Inswathed sometimes Integrally (in'tė-gral-li), adv.

tinguished from the power to feel and to will;

In an inte- also, the capacity for higher forms of knowin wandering mist.' Tennyson. Intact (in-takt'), u. [L. intactus--prefix in, Integrant (in'tė-grant), a. gral manner; wholly; completely.

ledge, as distinguished from the power to

[L. integrans, perceive and imagine; the power to pernot, and tactus, touched, pp. of tango, to touch.) Untouched, especially by anything

integrantis, ppr. of integro, to make whole. ceive objects in their relations; the power

See INTEGRATE.) Making part of a whole; to judge and comprehend. that harms or defiles; uninjured; left comnecessary to constitute an entire thing.

Intellect, sensitivity, and will are the three heads plete, whole, or unharmed.

A true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest under which the powers and capacities of the human When all external differences have passed away, in the state, or separable from it. It is an essential mind are now generally arranged. In this use of it the one element remains intact, unchanged.--the ever- integrant part of any large people rightly consti- term intellect includes all those powers by which we lasting basis of our common nature, the human soul tuted.

Burke. acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge, as percepby which we live,

F. W. Robertson.
-- Integrant parts or particles, those parts

tion, memory, imagination, judgment, &c. Fleming. Intactable, Intactible (in-takt'a-bl, in- into which a body may be reduced, as by 2. Intellectual people collectively; as, the takt'i-bl), a. (L. prefix in, not, and tango, mechanical division, each remaining of a intellect of a city or country.-3. pl. Wits; tactum, to touch. ] Not perceptible to the similar nature with the whole, as the filings senses; mind; as, disordered in his intellects. touch.

of iron : in contradistinction to elementary (Obsolete or vulgar. ) Intagliated (in-tälyāt-ed), a. [See INTA- particles.- Integrant molecule, a term em. Intellected (in'tel-lekt-ed), a. Endowed G1.10.) Engraven or stamped on. "Starry ployed by Haüy in his theory of crystals, to with intellect; having intellectual powers stone deeply intagliated.' Warton.

denote the smallest particle of a crystal or capacities. Intaglio (in-tälyo), n. [It., from intagliare, that can be arrived at by mechanical divi- In body and in bristles they became to carve - in, and tagliare, to cut, Fr. sion.

As swine, yet intellected as before. Comper. tailler.) A cutting or engraving; hence, Integrate (in'tē-grāt), v.t. pret. & pp. inte- Intellection (in-tel-lek’shon), n. [L intelany figure engraved or cut into a substance grated; ppr. integrating. (L. integro, inte- lectio, intellectionis, from intelligo, intelso as to form a hollow; or a precious stone gratum, to make whole, to renew, from in- lectum, to understand. See INTELLIGENCE) with a figure or device engraved on it by teger. See INTEGER, EXTIRE.) To make The act of understanding; simple apprehencutting, such as we frequently see set in entire; to form one whole; to perfect.

sion of ideas. rings, seals, &c. It is the reverse of cameo, Two distinct substances, the soul and the body, go The distinction between ideas of mere sensation and which has the figure in relief.

to compound and integrate the man. South. those of intellection, between what the mind compre. Intail (in-tal'), v.t. Same as Entail.

That conquest rounded and integrated the glorious hends and what it conceives without comprehencang, Intake (in'tak), n. 1. The point at which empire,

De Quincy.
is the point of divergence between the two schools of

Hailam. a narrowing or contraction begins.--2. In 2. To indicate the whole; to give the sum or

psychology which still exist in the world.

The experientialist doctrine thus appears wholly at hydraulics, the point at which water is

total; as, an integrating anemometer, that fault if it means (as it has often been taken by sup. received into a pipe or channel: opposed to is one that indicates the entire force of the porters and opponents alike to mean) that all intel. outlet.

wind exerted within a given time. - To inte- lection was first sensation in the individual, or even Intaker (in'tāk-er), n. A receiver of stolen

(in a more refined form) that general knowledge is grate a differential in the integral calculus, goods.

elaborated afresh by each of us from our own expeto determine from that differential its pri- rience.

Pry. G. C. Robertson Intaminated + (in-tam'in-at-ed), a. Incon- mitive function. taminated. A. Wood

Intellective (in-tel-lektiv), a. [Fr. intel. Integration (in-te-grā'shon), n. [L. integraIntangible (in-tan'ji-bl), a. (Prefix in, not, tio, integrationis, from integro.] 1. The act

lectif, intellective. ) 1. Pertaining to the and tangible.) Not tangible; incapable of of integrating or making entire; the forma

intellect; having power to understand, being touched; not perceptible to the touch.

• The intellectire tion of one whole; completion; perfection.

know, or comprehend.

faculties.' Wotton. 2. Produced by the A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible Not so properly correction and retrenchment were

understanding. Ilarris. -- 3. Capable of being being

Marshall. called for, as integration of what had been left imA man should be still in danger of knocking his perfect.

De Quincey.

perceived by the understanding only, not head against every wall and pullar, unless it were

by the senses. 'The most intellective ab2. In math, the determination of a function also intangible, as some of the Peripateticks affirm!

stractions from its differential or its differential co

of logic and metaphysics.' Wilkins.

Milton.
efficient.
Intangibleness, Intangibility (in-tan'ji.
wl-nes, in-tan'ji-bil"i-ti), n.

Intellectively (in-tel-lektiv-li), adv. In an
Integrity (in-tegʻri-ti), n. [Fr. intégrité ; L.
The quality of

intellective manner. 'Not intellectively to being intangible. integritas, from integer. See INTEGER. )

write.' Warner. 1. The state of being entire or complete; Intellectual (in-tel·lekt'ū-al), a. [Fr. intel. Intangibly (in-tan'ji-bli), adv. So as to be intangible.

wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, Intangle (in-tang'gl), v.t. Same as En

the contracting parties guaranteed the in

lectuel, intellectual.) 1. Relating to the inteltangle, tegrity of the empire. --- 2. Moral soundness

lect or understanding; belonging to the Intastable (in-tāst'a-bl), a. [Prefix in, not,

or purity; incorruptness; uprightness; hon

mind; performed by the understanding; esty: used especially with reference to up

mental, appealing to or engaging the inteland tastable. ) Incapable of being tasted ;

lect or the higher capacities of man; as, inrightness in mutual dealings, transfers of incapable of affecting the organs of taste;

tellectual powers or operations; intellectual tasteless; unsavoury. Grew. property, and agencies for others.

philosophy; intellectual amusements Integer (in'tē-jér), n. (L. integer, un

The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the

2. Perceived by the intellect; existing in the sublimest thing in nature, before which the pomp of touched, undiminished, whole, entire-in, eastern magnificence and the splendour of conquest

understanding; ideal. not, and tag, root of tango, to touch.) An are odious as well as perishable. Buckminster.

In a dark vision's intellectual scene. Cowley'.

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