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trong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.

that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive. The noblest incitation to honest attempts. Tatler.

ot defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; above the influence of bribes; upright; honest. Milton. Your Christian principles . . . which will preserve you incorrupt as individuals. Bp. Hurd.

Probity; integrity; honesty. Woodward.

hase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle.

following passage: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things. Phil. iv. 8. Infinitesimal increment (Math.), an infinitesimally small…

or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott.

ut interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.

State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism. The indifferentism which equalizes all religions and gives equal rights to truth and error. Cardinal Manning.

Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal. By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways I met this crown. Shak.

Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.

Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.

ble, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. Rom. ii. 1.

ry great number. Glittering chains, embroidered richly o'er With infinite of pearls and finest gold. Fanshawe.

be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuin method to obviate dishonesty. Locke.

ing; inquiry; search; examination; inspection; investigation. As I could learn through earnest inquisition. Latimer. Let not search and inquisition quail To bring again these foolish runaways. Shak.

Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation. Carlyle.

With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." Luke vii. 4.

Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal,…

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.