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Impartation.

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

Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important. [Obs.] Shak. "Careful to conceal importancies." Fuller.

estless; anxious. [Obs.] Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important. Chapman.

In an important manner.

Want of acquaintance. Good.

Inciting; stimulating.

ht, 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.

Toughtless; inconsiderate. [R.] Milton. Men are careless and incogitant. J. Goodman.

In an incogitant manner.

Ignorant. [Obs.]

Inconstancy. Chaucer.

The quality or state of being inconstant; want of constancy; mutability; fickleness; variableness. For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love. Spenser.

Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship. "The inconstant moon." Shak. While we, inquiring phantoms of a day, Inconstant as…

In an inconstant manner.

Want of distance o [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

Capacity for induction; the coefficient of self-induction.

A choking coil.

Not equally distant; not equidistant.

Inexistent; not existing. [Obs.] Gudworth.