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rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. [Written also idyll.] Wordsworth's solemn-thoughted idyl. Mrs. Browning. His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. F. Harrison.

The state or quality of being immeasurable. Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson.

ctures, etc. Immodest deeds you hinder to be wrought, But we proscribe the least immodest thought. Dryden.

Not persevering; fickle; thoughtless. [Obs.]

An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured. Impossibilities! O, no, there's none. Cowley.

To be impressed; to rest. [Obs.] Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress. Chaucer.

A piece composed or played at first thought; a composition in the style of an extempore piece.

t; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service, Improper for a slave. Shak. And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, Ill. Pope.

Not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man. Improvident soldires! had your watch been good, This sudden mischief never could have fallen. Shak.

Burnt in; ineffaceable. Her inburnt, shamefaced thoughts. P. Fletcher.

Want of thought, 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.

Not cogitative; not thinking; wanting the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitative being. Locke.

The quality of being incogitative; want of thought or of the power of thinking. Wollaston.

so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition. A strength and obduracy of character incompatible with his meek and innocent nature. Southey.…

Inconsiderateness; thoughtlessness. [Obs.] Chesterfield.

safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that therinconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics. Addison.…

o principle, etc.; unequal; fickle; changeable. Ah, how unjust to nature, and himself, Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man. Young.

Want of consonance or harmony of sound, action, or thought; disagreement.

dinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead Acts xxvi. 8.

se, etc. Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal, they thought utterly indefensible. Burke.