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

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

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.

Act of ingenerating.

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

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

Pertaining to inspiration.

One who holds to inspiration.

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

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

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

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

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

Reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration. Milman.

Spiritual inspiration at separate times, or at intervals. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.

The act of making inveterate. [R.] Bailey.

The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.

Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.