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The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill.

r the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate. Glanvill.

orporation, from property; as, a large income. No fields afford So large an income to the village lord. Dryden.

Defenseless. [Obs.] The sword awes the indefensive villager. Sir T. Herbert.

ng eluded or evaded; unvoidable. Most pressing reasons and ineludible demonstrations. Glanvill.

able; improper; unbecoming. The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries. Glanvill.

Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly. Glanvill.

ion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke.

Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable. Glanvill.

Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive. [Obs.] Glanvill.

er is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. Glanvill.

e right in the conclusions, it is yet unjust and mistaken in the method of inference. Glanvill.

One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. [Obs.] Glanvill.

r the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness. The baseness and villainy that . . . the instigation of the devil could bring the sons of men to. South.

Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. Glanvill.

ation; entanglement. All things are mixed, and causes blended, by mutual involutions. Glanvill.

Irresistible. [Obs.] Glanvill.

A village or district the government and revenues of which are assigned to some person, usually in consideration of some service to be rendered, esp. the maintenance of troops. [Written also jaghire, jagir, etc.] [India] Whitworth.

otion of from; a hitch; a break in the direction of a line or the surface of a plane. Glanvill. Jog trot, a slow, regular, jolting gait; hence, a routine habit or method, persistently adhered to. T. Hook.

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation." Glanvill.