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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,263 words match “RATIO”

INAUGURATION DAY n.

The day on which the President of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in every year next after a year divisible by four.

The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.

INCAMERATION n.

The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain.

INCARCERATION n. 3 definitions

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill.

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

INCINERATION n.

cinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation. The phenix kind, Of whose incineration, There riseth a new creation. Skelton.

INCONSIDERATION n.

Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.

INCORPORATION n. 5 definitions

g with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation; as, the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic.

INDURATION n. 3 definitions

manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling. A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business. Coleridge.

INFILTRATION n. 2 definitions

he substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. Addison. Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities. Kirwan. Fatty infiltration. (Med.) See under Fatty. -- Infiltration gallery, a filter gallery.

INGENERATION n.

Act of ingenerating.

Agency; influence; production of effects. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

INSPIRATION n. 3 definitions

s by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.

INSPIRATIONAL a.

Pertaining to inspiration.

INSPIRATIONIST n.

One who holds to inspiration.

INSTAURATION n.

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

INSUSURRATION n.

The act of whispering into something. [Obs.] Johnson.

INTEGRATION n. 3 definitions

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

INTENERATION n.

The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening. [R.] Bacon.

INTERARBORATION n.

The interweaving of branches of trees. [R.] Sir T. Browne.