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The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection. Jer. Taylor.

Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection. "A most inherent baseness." Shak. The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization. Sout…

The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence. A. Baxter. Constant inhesion and habitual abode. South.

ry treatises in the law. Herbert. Two initiatory rites of the same general import can not exist together. J. M. Mason.

Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

s. The insidious whisper of the bad angel. Hawthorne. Insidious disease (Med.), a disease existing, without marked symptoms, but ready to become active upon some slight occasion; a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is.

Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.

Existing between royal courts. [R.] "Interaulic politics." Motley.

Existing or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc.

Pertaining to the mutual relations of States; existing between, or including, different States; as, interstate commerce. Story.

A thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants, and situated between the extine and the intine, as in .

s of simple ideas and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real existence, from which was derived their original pattern. Locke.

To produce; to cause to exist; to induce. [Obs.] Whosoever introduces habits in children, deserves the care and attention of their governors. Locke.

The interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.

act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.

The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a', b.b', c.c', so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa' = Ob.Ob' = Oc.Oc' is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution.

measures to control the proceedings of the National Assembly. Hence: A plotter against an existing government; a turbulent demagogue.

One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposed by Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.

said of the sea serpent or kraken, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption. Goldsmith. Like a kraken huge and black. Longfellow.