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The quality of being immensurable.

Immeasurable. What an immensurable space is the firmament. Derham.

Unmeasured; unlimited. [R.] W. Montagu.

A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.…

Not apprehensible; unintelligible; inconceivable. Milton.

Want of apprehension.

Not apprehensive; regardless; unconcerned. Jer. Taylor.

A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.

The offering of incense. [R.] Encyc. Brit.

o inflame; to kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman.

Breathing or exhaling incense. "Incense-breathing morn." Gray.

Angered; enraged.

Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.

One who instigates or incites.

The act of kindling, or the state of being kindled or on fire. Bacon.

Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.

A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter.

The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible. [R.] Evelyn.

Not censurable. Dr. T. Dwight. -- In*cen"sur*a*bly, adv.

The quality or state of being incommensurable. Reid.