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The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire. Bacon.

Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.

A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter.

The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible. [R.] Evelyn.

Not censurable. Dr. T. Dwight. -- In*cen"sur*a*bly, adv.

The center of the circle inscribed in a triangle.

Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative. Competency is the most incentive to industry. Dr. H. More.

Incitingly; encouragingly.

Beginning; commencement; initiation. Bacon. Marked with vivacity of inception, apathy of progress, and prematureness of decay. Rawle.

Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative. -- In*cep"tive*ly, adv.

A beginner; one in the rudiments. Johnson.

The act of smearing or covering with wax. B. Jonson.

Cleaving or sticking like wax. Cotgrave.

Uncertain; doubtful; unsteady. -- In*cer"tain*ly, adv. Very questionable and of uncertain truth. Sir T. Browne.

Uncertainty. [Obs.] Shak.

Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt. The incertitude and instability of this life. Holland. He fails . . . from mere incertitude or irresolution. I. Taylor.

Doubtful; not of definite form. Opus incertum (Anc. Arch.), a kind of masonry employed in building walls, in which the stones were not squared nor laid in courses; rubblework.

Unceasing; continual. [Obs.] Shelton. -- In*ces"sa*bly, adv. [Obs.]

The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness. Dr. T. Dwight.

Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc. Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and entrance did await. Spenser.