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Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt. The incertitude and instability of this life. Holland. He fails . . . from mere incertitude or irresolution. I. Taylor.

Unchastity. [Obs.] Milton.

The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness. That ineptitude for society, which is frequently the fault of us scholars. Tatler.

Inertness; inertia. [R.] Good.

Inexactness; uncertainty; as, geographical inexactitude.

Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend. Shak. Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and man. L'Estrange.

ed; organized; founded. [Obs.] They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice. Robynson (More's Utopia).

An institutor. [R.]

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction. Hooker.

Pertaining to, or treating of, institutions; as, institutional legends. Institutional writers as Rousseau. J. S. Mill.

Relating to an institution, or institutions.

A writer or compiler of, or a commentator on, institutes. [R.] Harvey.

Tending or intended to institute; having the power to establish. Barrow.

In conformity with an institution. Harrington.

One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes.

Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants.

An intervening period of time; interval. [Obs.] Gower.

See Entitle.

To entitle; to give a title to. Selden.

session; also, the right of so investing. He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh.