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Unceasingly; continually. Shak.

Motion on foot; progress in walking. [Obs.] The incession or local motion of animals. Sir T. Browne.

The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law. Shak. Spiritual incest. (Eccl. Law) (a) The crime of cohabitation committed between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation. (b) The act of a vicar, or other b…

Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, the crime of incest; as, an incestuous person or connection. Shak. Ere you reach to this incestuous love, You must divine and human rights remove. Dryden. -- In*cest"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- In*cest"tu*ous*ness, n.

An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc. [Scot.]

To lodge in a chamber. [R.] Sherwood.

Unchangeableness. [Obs.] Kenrick.

See Enchant.

Uncharitable; unfeeling. [Obs.] Shak.

Want of charity. [Obs.] Evelyn.

See Enchase.

Unchastity. [Obs.] Milton.

Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge. Shak.

To put into a chest.

See Inchpin.

A piece an inch long. By inchmeal, by small degrees; by inches. Shak.

Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.

Act of beginning; commencement; inception. The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them. Sir M. Hale. It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the most elaborate finishing. I. Taylor.

Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. "Some inchoative or imperfect rays." W. Montagu. -- n.

The sweetbread of a deer. Cotgrave.