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Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul. Bp. Burnet. -- In`ca*pa"cious*ness, n.

ty or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. Indigent faint souls past corporal toil. Shak. Charity consists in relieving the indigent. Addison.

things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. A. Tucker. United as one individual soul. Milton.

he species; to endow with individuality; to divide into individuals; to discriminate. The soul, as the prime individuating principle, and the said reserved portion of matter as an essential and radical part of the individuation, shall . . . make up and restore the same individual person. South. Life is individuated int…

s. Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies. Dryden. Indued with intellectual sense and souls. Shak.

justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory.

adequacy; competency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a rational soul. South.

Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.

leness; obstinacy. The inflexibility of mechanism. A. Baxter. That grave inflexibility of soul. Churchill. The purity and inflexibility of their faith. T. Warton.

m the breathing brass. Dryden. Breath informs this fleeting frame. Prior. Breathes in our soul,informs our mortal part. Pope.

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.

The doctrine that the soul is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to tradicianism and creationism.

egete; to engener; to occasion; to cause. Mede. Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul. Sir M. Hale.

er in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. Milton.

Quality of being inorganic. [Obs.] "The inorganity of the soul." Sir T. Browne.

Inquiry; quest; search. [R.] Spenser. The laborious and vexatious inquest that the soul must make after science. South.

ity of being insatiable; insatiableness. Eagerness for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.

g, or as if by breathing. He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul. Wisdom xv. 11.

To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls. Blackstone.

ement remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.