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One who initiates.

Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step. Bp. Hall.

Initiation; beginning. [Obs.] Sir R. Naunton.

A leaning; pressure; weight. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Want of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [R.]

Quality of being inorganic. [Obs.] "The inorganity of the soul." Sir T. Browne.

Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.

Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions.

or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy. All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity. Johnson. Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. Cowper.

Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc. In consequence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton.

To knit together; to unite closely; to intertwine.

State of being within; interiority. [R.] H. Brooke.

Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.

A failure to recognize; absence of recognition. Lamb.

m (also used adjectively), signifying: Pertaining to, or designating, the characteristic, nitrogenous radical, NOH, called the isonitroso group.

A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.

A door-keeper; a porter; one who has the care of a public building, or a building occupied for offices, suites of rooms, etc.

A female janitor.

A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.

The quality of being jejune; jejuneness.