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ICONOLATRY n.
e worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.
IDENTIFY v.
erests of the people and of the rulers. D. Ramsay. Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people. Burke.
IDENTITY n.
ameness. Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves. Sir W. Hamilton.
IMAGE n.
p of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves. -- Image Purkinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane. -- Virtual image (Optics), a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existe…
IMPUTATION n.
rge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation. Let us be careful to guard ourselves against these groundless imputation of our enemies. Addison.
IN prep.
to be in one's favor. "In sight of God's high throne." Milton. Sounds inharmonious in themselves, and harsh. Cowper.
INCOGNIZANT a.
Not cognizant; failing to apprehended or notice. Of the several operations themselves, as acts of volition, we are wholly incognizant. Sir W. Hamilton.
INCONSISTENCY n.
steadiness; changeableness; variableness. Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature. Addison.
INCORRUPTLY adv.
Without corruption. To demean themselves incorruptly. Milton.
INDEPENDENT a.
ate from; exclusive; irrespective. That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement. R. P. Ward.
INDIFFERENCY n.
ything; unconcernedness; equilibrium; indifferentism; indifference. Gladstone. To give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause. Fuller. Moral liberty . . . does not, after all, consist in a power of indifferency, or in a power of choosing without regard to motives. Hazlitt.…
INDONESIAN n.
Keane, the autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of Indo-Chinese affinities, from mixture with whom sprang the Indonesian race.
INDULGE v.
ge one's self with a rest or in pleasure. Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly. Atterbury.
INDULGENCE n.
y lips. Tooke. They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. Hammond.
INEXPLICABLE a.
eason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others inexplicable, to themselves uncertain. Burke.
INFLATE v.
ig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity. Inflate themselves with some insane delight. Tennyson.
INFLICTION n.
d or imposed, as punishment, disgrace, calamity, etc. His severest inflictions are in themselves acts of justice and righteousness. Rogers.
INFUSE v.
To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce. That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men. Shak. Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son which himself never possessd Swift.
INGENIOUS a.
rturers ingenious. Shak. The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to trouble themselves. Sir W. Temple.
INHARMONIOUS a.
Not harmonious; unmusical; discordant; dissonant. Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh. Cowper.
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