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Fr. persing, and confounding one another's motions, is inincom- conceivable. Newton's Opticks. Such are Christ's promises, divine inconceivable promises: a bliss to be enjoyed to all eternity, and that by way of return for a weak obedience of some few Hammond. years. They fall into a contrary extreme, and would persuade us, that the attributes of God are all alike in

INCOMPREHENSIBILITY, n.s. INCOMPREHEN'SIBLE, adj. INCOMPREHEN'SIBLENESS, n. s. prehenINCOMPREHEN'SIBLY, adv. sibilité; Lat. in, con, prehendo. That which cannot be taken hold of or conceived in the mind: an old sense of these words, now out of use, was not to be contained in this sense incomprehensible is used by Hooker.

Presence every where is the sequel of an infinite and incomprehensible substance; for what can be every where but that which can no where be comprehended? Hooker.

How incomprehensibly glorious is the light that is in thee, since one glimpse of this created light gave so lively a glory to all thy workmanship! Bp. Hall.

Stars that seem to roll Spaces incomprehensible. Milton. Ard last of all that unutterable incomprehensible mystery of two natures united into one person, and again of one and the same nature diffused into a triple personality. South's Sermons.

I conclude that for any one to deny or reject the mysteries of our religion as impossible, because of the imcomprehensibleness of them, is upon all true principles, both of divinity and philosophy, utterly inconsequent and irrational.

Id.

The laws of vegetation and propagation are the arbitrary pleasure of God, and may vary in manners incomprehensible to our imaginations. Bentley.

His precepts tend to the improving and perfecting the most valuable part of us, and annexing incomprehensible rewards as an eternal weight of glory.

Hammond.

I might argue from God's incomprehensibleness: if we could believe nothing but what we have ideas of, it would be impossible for us to believe God is incomprehensible. Watts.

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INCOMPRESS'IBLE, adj. Lat. in, con, INCOMPRESSIBILITY, n. s. pressus. Not capable of being compressed into less space. Hardness is the reason why water is incompressible, when the air lodged in it is exhausted. Cheyne. INCONCURRING, adj. Lat. in, con, curro. Not concurring.

They derive effects not only from inconcurring causes, but things devoid of efficiency. Browne.

INCONCEAL'ABLE, adj. Lat. in con celo. Not to be hid; not to be kept secret.

The inconcealable imperfections of ourselves will hourly prompt us our corruption, and loudly tell us we Browne. are sons of earth. Latin, in and conceptus. Not to be conceived:

INCONCEIVABLE, adj.
INCONCEIVABLY, adv.
INCONCEPTIBLE, adj.

in a manner or degree beyond human comprehension: inconceptible is obsolete, it has a similar meaning.

It is inconceptible how any such man, that hath stood the shock of an eternal duration without corruption, should after be corrupted.

Hale. It is inconceivable to me, that a spiritual substance should represent an extended figure. Locke.

Does that man take a rational course to preserve himself, who refuses the endurance of those lesser troubles, to secure himself from a condition inconceivably more miserable? South.

How two ethers can be diffused through all space, one of which acts upon the other, and by consequence reacted upon, without retarding, shattering, dis

cludo.

conceivable to us as they are in themselves, and can be known no way to except by analogy. Bolingbroke. INCONCLU’DENT, adj.- Lat. in and conINCONCLUSIVE, adj. Inferring INCONCLUSIVELY, adv. no consequence; INCONCLUSIVENESS, n. s. not inforcing any determination of the mind: to reason inconclusively is without any such evidence as determines the understanding: inconclusiveness, want of rational cogency.

A man, unskilful in syllogism, at first hearing, could perceive the weakness and inconclusiveness of a long, artificial, and plausible discourse, wherewith some others, better skilled in syllogism, have been misled.

Locke. The depositions of witnesses themselves, 'as being false, various, contrariant, single, inconcludent.

INCONCOCT', adj.
INCONCOCTED, adj.
INCONCOCTION, n. s.

words are nearly useless.

Ayliffe's Parergon. Lat. in and concoctus. Unripened; immature; not fully digested: these

The middle action, which produceth such imper fect bodies, is fitly called inquination, or inconcoction, which is a kind of putrefaction.

Bacon's Natural History. strong for the efficient that should convert it, it is all While the body, to be converted and altered, is too that while crude and inconcoct; and the process is to be called cruidity and inconcoction. Bacon.

I understand, remember, and reason better in my riper years, than when I was a child, and had my organical parts less digested and inconcocted. Hale. INCON'DITE, adj. Lat. incorditus. Irregular; rude; unpolished.

Now sportive youth

Carol incondite rhimes with suiting Lotes,
And quaver inharmonious.

Phillips. Lat. in and conWithout exception, limitation, or stipulation; not restrained by conditions; absolute.

INCONDITIONAL, adj. } ditio.
INCONDITIONATE, adj.

From that which is but true in a qualified sense, an inconditional and absolute verity is inferred.

Browne.

They ascribe to God, in relation to every man, an eternal, unchangeable, and inconditionate decree of election or reprobation. Boyle. INCONFORMITY, n. s. Lat. in, cum, forma. In and conformity. Incompliance with the practice of others.

We have thought their opinion to be, that utter inconformity with the church of Rome was not an extremity whereunto we should be drawn for a time, but the very mediocrity itself, wherein they meant we should ever continue. Hooker.

INCONFU'SION, n. s. Lat. in and confusus. In and confusion. Distinctness. Not used.

The cause of the confusion in sounds, and the inconfusion in species visible, is, for that the sight worketh in right lines, and so there can be no coincidence in the eye; but sounds that move in oblique and

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Humidity is but relative, and depends upon the congruity or incongruence of the component particles of the liquor to the pores of the bodies it touches. Boyle.

The fathers make use of this acknowledgment of the incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship of them.

Stillingfleet.

Wiser heathens condemned the worship of God as incongruous to a divine nature, and a disparagement to the deity. Id.

To avoid absurdities and incongruities, is the same law established for both arts: the painter is not to paint a cloud at the bottom of a picture, nor the poet to place what is proper to the end in the beginning of Dryden.

a poem.

INCONNEX'EDLY, adv. In and connex. Lat. in and connecto, to bind together. Without any connexion or dependence. Little used. Others ascribed hereto, as a cause, what perhaps but casually or inconnexedly succeeds. Browne. INCON'SCIONABLE, adj. In and conscionable. Lat. in and conscius. Void of the sense of good and evil; without influence of conscience. Not used.

So inconscionable are these common people, and so little feeling have they of God, or their own souls' good. Spenser. INCON'SEQUENCE, n. s. Į Lat. in and INCON'SEQUENT, adj. consequor; Fr. inconsequence. Want of just inference in reasoning; without suitable conclusions.

The ground he assumes is unsound, and his illation from thence deduced inconsequent. Hakewill.

Men rest not in false apprehensions without absurd and inconsequent deductions from fallacious foundations, and misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way inferrible from their premises.

Browne's Vulgar Errours.

This he bestows the name of many fallacies upon; and runs on with shewing the inconsequence of it, as though he did in earnest believe it were an impertiStilling fleet.

nent answer.

And yet as absurd, as fallacious, and inconsequent as this way of discoursing is, it is one of the chief foundations of the doctrine of merit, and consequently of the religion of too great a part of the world.

South's Sermons.

Latin in and consideratio. Unworthy

of

INCONSIDERABLE, adj.) INCONSIDERABLENESS, n. s. INCONSIDERATE, adj. INCONSIDERATELY, adv. notice; trifling; INCONSIDERATENESS, n. s. of little value; INCONSIDERATION, n.s small in importance: inconsiderate, from inconsideratus, careless; inadvertent; inattentive: want of thought; negligence; inattention: used both of persons and things.

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That which now looks like justice will be thought
An inconsiderate rashness.
Id. Sophy.

the transgressions, which were under the first TestaHe who laid down his life for the redemption of ment, cannot be so inconsiderate of our frailties.

Decay of Piety.

If men do know and believe that there is such a being as God, not to demean ourselves towards him as becomes our relation to him is great stupidity and inconsiderateness. Tillotson.

The most inconsiderable of creatures may at some time or other come to revenge itself upon the greatest. L'Estrange.

siderableness, in respect of the greatness and splendor From the consideration of our smallness and inconof heavenly bodies, let us with the holy psalmist raise up our hearts. Ray on the Creation.

and endeavoured with all his art to set out the excess Joseph was delighted with Mariamne's conversation, of Herod's passion for her; but, when he still found her cold and incredulous, he inconsiderately told her the private orders he left behind. Addison.

It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that there should be any so inconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politicks. Id. Freeholder.

May not planets and comets perform their motions more freely, and with less resistance, in this ethereal medium, than in any fluid which fills all space adequately without leaving any pores, and by consequence is much denser than quicksilver or gold? And may not its resistance be so small as to be inconsiderable?

Newton.

Let no sin appear small or inconsiderable by which an almighty God is offended, and eternal salvation endangered. Rogers.

If we were under any real fear of the papists, it apprehensive with others, since we are likely to be the would be hard to think us so stupid not to be equally greatest sufferers; but we look upon them to be altogether as inconsiderable as the women and children.

Swift. Lat. in and consto. Not compatible with: inconsistency, such opposition as infers the negation of the other; such contrariety that one proposition that both cannot be together; absurdity; incongruity inconsistent, unsuitable; unsteady; changeable; contrary; with self-contradiction.

INCONSISTING, adj.-
INCONSISTENCE, n. s.
INCONSISTENCY, N. s.
INCONSISTENT, adj.
INCONSISTENTLY, adv.

Finding no kind of compliance, but sharp protestations against the demands, as inconsistent with conscience, justice, or religion, the conference broke off. Clarendon.

The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatuthe characters of mankind. ral, and the manners false; that is, inconsisting with Dryden's Dufresnoy. obscure and confused, because it is made up of two The idea of an infinite space or duration is very parts very different, if not inconsistent.

Locke.

There is a perfect inconsistency between that which is of debt, and that which is of free gift. South. Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Addison.

Compositions of this nature, when thus restrained, shew that wisdom and virtue are far from being inconsistent with politeness and good humour.

Id. Freeholder.

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last. Swift.

When inconsistent with a greater good,
Reason commands to cast the less away.
Dr. Johnson's Irene.

INCON'SOLABLE, adj. Fr. inconsolable; Lat. in and consolor. Not to be comforted; sorrowful beyond susceptibility of comfort.

Her women will represent to me that she is inconsolable, by reason of my unkindness. Addison.

They take pleasure in an obstinate grief, in rendering themselves inconsolable. Fiddes's Sermon. Lat. in and con

INCON'SONANCY, n. s.

sono.

Disagreement with itself. INCONSPICUOUS, adj. Lat. in and conspicio. In and conspicuous. Indiscernible; not perceptible by the sight.

When an excellent experimenter had taken pains in accurately filling up a tube of mercury, we found that yet there remained store of inconspicuous bubbles.

Boyle. INCON'STANCY, n. s. Į Fr. inconstant; INCON'STANT, adj. Lat. in and consto. Unsteadiness; mutability; diversity. Inconstant, wavering; not firm in resolution; various of inclination; wanting perseverance; applicable to persons.

Your inconstance is your confusion.

Chaucer. The Sompnoures Tale. I have suffered more for their sakes, more than the villainous inconstancy of man is able to bear.

Shakspeare.

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For all the people's hate, the princess' curses, And his son's rage, or the old king's inconstancy. Denham.

I do not think it a mark of inconstancy to accommodate our measures, as we do the course which we steer at sea, to the winds and storms of the political horizon. Milton's Prose Works. Inconstant Sylvia, when yet

I had not found him counterfeit,
One morning (I remember well)
Tyed in this silver chain and bell,
Gave it to me, nay, and I know

What he said then; I'm sure I do. Marvell. He is so naturally inconstant, that I marvel his soul finds not some way to kill his body.

Sidney.

O Virtue you affect, inconstancy you practise. Otway's Orphan. Trust not a man, we are by nature false, Dissembling, subtile, cruel, and inconstant. Id. Where Unpreparedness is encountred with unexpected Force, Weakness with Violence, Inconstancy with Importunity, there Destruction must needs be not the effect of chance but nature, and by the closest connexion of causes unavoidable.

South's Sermons

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness. Addison. As much inconstancy and confusion is there in their mixtures or combinations; for it is rare to find any of them pure and unmixt. Woodward. Inconstant, blind,

Deserting friends at need, and duped by foes.
Thomson.

I hate inconstancy—I loathe, detest,
Abhor, condemn, abjure, the mortal made
Of such quicksilver clay, that in his breast
No permanent foundation can be laid.

Byron. Don Juan, INCONSUMABLE, adj. Į Lat. in and conINCONSUMP'TIBLE, adj. suno. Not to be wasted, spent, or brought to an end: not to be destroyed by fire.

Before I give any answer to this objection of pretended inconsumptible lights, I would gladly see the effect undoubtedly proved. Digby on Bodies.

By art were weaved napkins, shirts, and coats, inconsumable by fire, and wherein they burnt the bodies of kings. Browne. INCONTESTABLE, adj. Į Fr. incontestaINCONTES TABLY, adv. ble; Lat. in and contestor. Not to be disputed, debated, or controverted: clear beyond all doubt.

Our own being furnishes us with an evident and incontestable proof of a Deity; and I believe no body can avoid the cogency of it, who will carefully attend to it. Locke.

INCONTIGUOUS, adj. Lat. in and contigo. In and contiguous. Not touching each other; not joined together.

They seemed part of small bracelets, consisting of equally little incontiguous beads. INCONTINENCE, n. s.` INCONTINENCY, N. s. INCONTINENT, adj. INCONTINENTLY, adv.

Boyle. Lat. in and contineo. Inability to restrain the passions unchaste;

indulging unlawful pleasures: an old meaning of incontinent and incontinently is, shunning delay; immediately.

Men shall be lovers of their own selves, faise accusers, incontinent, fierce. 2 Tim. iii. 3. They ran towards the far rebounded noise, To weet what wight so loudly did lament; Unto the place they came incontinent,

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This is my defence :

I pleased myself, I shunned incontinence,
And, urged by strong desires, indulged my sense.

Dryden.

The words sine veste Dianam agree better with Livia, who had the fame of chastity, than with either of the Julias, who were both noted of incontinency.

Id. Incontinently I left Madrid, and have been dogged and waylaid through several nations.

Arbuthnot and Pope. INCONTINENCE, in medicine, signifies an inability in any of the organs to retain what should not be discharged without the concurrence of the will. It is most frequently used with regard to a diabetes, or an involuntary discharge of urine. See MEDICINE.

INCONTROVERTIBLE, adj. Į
INCONTROVERTIBLY, adv.

Lat. in,
S controverto.
Indisputable; to a degree beyond controversy
or dispute.

The Hebrew is incontrovertibly the primitive and surest text to rely upon; and, to preserve the same uncorrupt, there hath been used the highest caution humanity could invent. Browne's Vulgar Errours.

When any tenet is generally received and adopted as an incontrovertible principle, we seldom look back to the arguments upon which it was first established. Johnson's Rambler. Fr. inconvenient; Lat. in

and convenio.

INCONVENIENCE, n. s. INCONVENIENCY, n. s. INCONVENIENT, adj. INCONVENIENTLY, adv. Unfitness; inexpedience; cause of uneasiness; disadvantage : inconvenient, unfit; incommodious; unseasonable; not agreeing either in time, place, or occasion.

Seying the manyfolde inconvenience Falling by unbrydled prosperite

Whiche is not tempered with moral prudence,

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To youthe's wele somwhat for to endite.

Chaucer. Prologue to the Remedie of Love.
They lean to their own customs, though they be
more unjust, and more inconvenient for the common
people.
Spenser on Ireland.

We are not to look that the church should change her publick laws, although it chance that for some particular men the same be found inconvenient, especially when there may be other remedy against particular inconveniences. Hooker.

They plead against the inconveniences, not the unlawfulness of popish apparel; and against the incon

venience, not the unlawfulness of ceremonies in burial.

Id.

There is a place upon the top of mount Athos

above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience,

Raleigh's History. Man is liable to a great many inconveniences every moment, and is continually unsecure even of life itself. Tillotson.

The inconvenience of old age makes him incapable of corporal pleasures. Dryden. Would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience to an animal, that must lie still where chance has once placed it? Locke.

He knows that to be inconvenient, which we falsely think convenient for us. Smalridge.

Consider the disproportion between the worst inconveniences that stand in compliance with men, and the eternal displeasure of God.

Rogers.

We are freed from many inconveniences, and we enjoy several advantages. Atterbury.

The things of another world, being distant, operate but faintly upon us; to remedy this inconveniency, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance. Id.

The next amusement mortgages our fields; Slight inconvenience prisons hardly frown, From hateful time if prisons set us free. Young. Another inconvenience attending private education is the suppressing of the principle of emulation, without which, it rarely happens that a boy prosecutes his studies with alacrity or success. Beattie.

This country, with its eyes open to all the inconveniences of the connexion, but with its memory full of them, renewed solemnly the previously existing oball its benefits, and with all the feelings belonging to ligations. Canning.

INCONVER'SABLE, adj. Lat. in and conill-qualified by temper for conversation; unsocial. versor. In and conversable. Incommunicative;

He is a person very inconversable.

More.

INCONVERTIBLE, adj. Lat. in and converto. In and convertible. Not transmutable; incapable of change.

It entereth not the veins, but taketh leave of the permeant parts, and accompanieth the inconvertible portion unto the siege. Browne. Lat. in and con

INCONVINCIBLE, adj. incor. Not to be

INCONVINCIBLY, adv.
convinced; incapable of conviction.

convincibly to side with any one.
It is injurious unto knowledge obstinately and in-
Browne.

INCO'NY, adj. Perhaps from in and conn, to know. Unlearned; artless. This sense is uncertain. In Scotland it denotes mischievously unlucky: as, he's an incony fellow. This seems to be the meaning of Shakspeare.

O' my troth, most sweet jests, most incony vulgar wit,

When it comes so smoothly off.

INCORPORAL, adj.

INCORPORAL'ITY, n. s.
INCORPORALLY, adv.
INCORPORATE, v. a., v. n. & adj.
INCORPORATION, n. s.
INCORPOREAL, adj.
INCORPO REALLY, adv.
INCORPORE'ITY, n. s.
INCORPSE', v. a.

Shakspeare.

Fr. incorporel; Lat. in and corpus. These words have

opposite

meanings:

incorporal, incorpora

lity, incorporally, signify immaterial; distinct from matter, as do also incorporeal, incorporeally; incorporate is to mingle into a mass; to conjoin as one body; to form into a corporation; to unite, associate, embody: incorporeity is immateriality: incorpse, to unite in one body; in the former words in is used as a privative, in the latter it has the force of increase or addition.

The apostle affirmeth plainly of all men Christian, that be they Jews or Gentiles, bond or free, they are all incorporated into one company, they all make but one body. Hooker

In him we actually are, by our actual incorporation into that society which hath him for their head.

Jd.

Villainous thoughts, Roderigo, when these mutua.ities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes 'he master and main exercise, the incorporate conclusion.

Shakspeare. Othello,

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Courtesy, that seemed incorporated in his heart, would not be persuaded by danger to offer any offence. Sidney. It is not universally true, that acid salts and oils will not incorporate or mingle. Boyle.

Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us. Bentley.

The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein, and so to make together with it a persou fit to receive a worship. Stillingfleet.

All this learning is ignoble and mechanical among them, and the Confutian only essential and incorporate in their government. Temple.

It finds the mind unprepossessed with any former notions, and so easily gains upon the assent, grows up with it, and incorporates into it.

South.

The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community. Addison's Freeholder. Incorporated minds will always feel some inclination towards exterior acts, ritual observances.

Johnson. Rambler.

INCORPORATIONS, or trades, in the polity of the Royal boroughs of Scotland, are societies of tradesmen or artists, incorporated by royal charter, and endowed with certain exclusive privileges, agreeably to the nature of their respective profes

INCORRECT, adj. INCORRECTLY, adv. INCORRECTNESS, n. s. INCORRIGIBLE, adj. INCOR'RIGIBLENESS, n. s. INCORRIGIBLY, adv.

Lat. in and corrigo. That which is faulty or cannot be corrected; inaccurate; full of faults incorrigi

ble, applied to persons who cannot be reformed or amended, and to things which cannot be improved: incorrigibleness, hopeless depravity: incorrigibly, wicked beyond the possibility of

reform.

Some men appear incorrigibly mad, They cleanliness and company renounce.

Roscommon. What we call penitence becomes a sad attestation of our incorrigibleness. Decay of Piety.

Provoked by these incorrigible fools,

I left declaiming in pedantick schools. Dryden. What are their thoughts of things, but variety of incorrigible error? L'Estrange.

I would not have chiding used, much less blows, 'till obstinacy and incorrigibleness make it absolutely

necessary.

Locke.

Whilst we are incorrigible, God may in vengeance continue to chastise us with the judgment of war.

Smalridge.

The piece you think is incorrect: why take it; I'm all submission; what you'd have it, make it. Pope.

INCORRUPT,' adj. INCORRUPTED, adj.

The most violent party-men are such as have discovered least sense of religion or morality; and when such are laid aside, as shall be found incorrigible, it will be no difficulty to reconcile the rest. Swift. Fr. incorruptible; Lat. in and corruptus. conduct and principles; free from depravity: incor

INCORRUPTIBILITY, n. s.
INCORRUPTIBLE, adj.
INCORRUPTION, N. S.
INCORRUPT'NESS, n. s.

Pure in

ruptibility, insusceptibleness of corruption or decay: incorruptible, not admitting decay; pure: incorruptness, purity of manners; honesty; integrity. A mind above the power of bribes is incorruptible.

So also is the resurrection of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. Philo, in his book of the world's incorruptibility, alledgeth the verses of a Greek tragick poet.

Sin, that first

Hakewill.

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