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Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite. [Obs.] Sir M . Hale.

ison vermin that infest his plants. Cowper. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, love, with the like cares and passions that infest human life. Addison. And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Longfellow.

To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison.

and goodness of God; -- opposed to finite. Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite. Ps. cxlvii. 5. O God, how infinite thou art! I. Watts.

Milton. As pleasing to the fancy, as speculations of eternity or infinitude are to the understanding. Addison.

[Obs.] South. Every inordination of religion that is not in defect, is properly called superstition. Jer. Taylor.

Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event. 'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. Beau. & Fl. Waiving a…

To make to understand; to instruct. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Interstratified.

jects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. Hickok.

Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.

Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person. Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity Milton.…

One who overrates the importance of the understanding. [R.] Bacon.

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton.

Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc. The intelligible forms of ancient poets. Coleridge.

In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.

Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. [Obs.] Spenser.