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Ingenuity; skill; cunning. [Obs.] Cudworth.

A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite.

ry; search; examination; inspection; investigation. As I could learn through earnest inquisition. Latimer. Let not search and inquisition quail To bring again these foolish runaways. Shak.

Relating to inquiry or inquisition; inquisitorial; also, of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Inquisition. All the inquisitional rigor . . . executed upon books. Milton.

Inquisitional.

uestions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer. A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent. Broome.

In an inquisitive manner. The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.

The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity. Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity, scrambled in at a high window. Johnson. Curiosity in children nature has pro…

An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions. [R.] "Inquisitors are tatlers." Feltham.

Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power. "Illiberal and inquisitorial abuse." F. Blackburne. He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorious power even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience. Hume.…

In an inquisitorial manner.

Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial. [Obs.] Milton.

Inquisitorial. [Obs.] "Our inquisiturient bishops." Milton.

Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.

Freedom from thirst. [Obs.] The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew.

The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment. Ray.

Insipidity; stupidity; dullness. [Obs.] The insulsity of mortal tongues. Milton.

Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive; as, the intensitive words of a sentence. H. Sweet.

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc. If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. F. W. Robertson.…

An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. Mitford.