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Heritage; inheritance. [R.] Robbing their children of the heritance Their fathers handed down Southey.

Same as Hindrance.

That which hinders; an impediment. What various hindrances we meet. Cowper. Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

Hence, the delay or continuance of a suit.

Impartation.

The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current, analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current, being the ratio of electromotive force to the current. It is equal to R2 + X2, where R = ohmic resistance, X = reactance. For an inductive circuit, X = 2pfL, where f =…

The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance. Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Pope.

Lack of power; inability. Bacon. Their own impuissance and weakness. Holland.

Want of acquaintance. Good.

Want of thought, or of the power of thinking; thoughtlessness; unreasonableness. 'T is folly and incogitancy to argue anything, one way or the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate. Glanvill.

Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice. This incognizance may be explained. Sir W. Hamilton.

incompliant; unyielding temper; obstinacy. Self-conceit produces peevishness and incompliance of humor in things lawful and indifferent. Tillotson.

Want of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement.

Inconstancy. Chaucer.

at impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check. Cowper.

One who holds Kent.

Indignation. [Obs.] Spenser.

Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.

Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction.