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[Obs.] -- Household gods (Rom. Antiq.), the gods presiding over the house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all objects endeared by association with home. -- Household troops, troops appointed to attend and guard the sovereign or his residence.

nt manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.

To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize. The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. Bp. Burnet.

s, n. The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. Clarendon.

od and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged. Bell.

orarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse. "The impulsion of conscience." Clarendon. "Divine impulsion prompting." Milton.

he Thirteen United States of America, on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared that these colonies were free and independent States, not subject to the government of Great Britain.

Not devoted. [Obs.] Bentley. Clarendon.

Proclaimed; declared; public. Kennet.

s sufficiently indisposed towards the persons, or the principles, of Calvin's disciples. Clarendon.

master that . . . took much delight in indoctrinating his young, unexperienced favorite. Clarendon.

od will be very visible in infatuating a people . . . ripe and prepared for destruction. Clarendon.

shing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.

To redouble or repeat; to reiterate. Clarendon. . . . She yet ingeminates The last of sounds, and what she hears relates. Sandys.

were inhibited, by proclamation, at the dissolution, so much as to mention a Parliament. Clarendon. Burial may not be inhibited or denied to any one. Ayliffe.

east inkling or glimpse of this island. Bacon. They had some inkling of secret messages. Clarendon.

hment. The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne. Milton.

d reflexively. He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham. Clarendon.

He bad a natural insinuation and address which made him acceptable in the best company. Clarendon.