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Exerting influence; influential. [Obs.] I find no office by name assigned unto Dr.Cox, who was virtually influent upon all, and most active. Fuller.

rnment. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment.

The finding of the jury upon such inquiry. Coroner's inquest, an inquest held by a coroner to determine the cause of any violent, sudden, or mysterious death. See Coroner. -- Inquest of office, an inquiry made, by authority or direction of proper officer, into matters affecting the rights and interests of the crown or…

The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry. Bouvier. The justices in eyre had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county. Blackstone.

To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon. [R.] Ray.

To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.

The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.

o labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. Rest or intermission none I find. Milton.

To mix together; to intermingle. In yonder spring of roses, intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton.

The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series.

To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.] And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent. Spenser.

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.

One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.

To put on. [Obs.] Can not find one this girdle to invest. Spenser.

or track mentally; to search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.

and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Bacon.

Sportive; not serious; fit for jests. He will find that these are no jesting matters. Macaulay .

A member of a jury; a juryman. I shall both find your lordship judge and juror. Shak.

our justification. Rom. iv. 25. In such righteousness To them by faith imputed, they may find Justification toward God, and peace Of conscience. Milton.

nock on the door. For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden. Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matt. vii. 7. To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter. [Colloq.] "Knocking about town." W. Irving. -- To knock up, to fail of strength;…