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597 words match “BURKE”

INCAPACITATION n.
The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification. Burke.
INCITEMENT n.
That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke. From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope.
INCLINING n.
Inclination; disposition. On the first inclining towards sleep. Burke.
INCOMING a.
Coming in; accruing. A full incoming profit on the product of his labor. Burke.
INCOMMENSURABLE a.
r and circumference of a circle are incommensurable. They are quantities incommensurable. Burke. -- In`com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*men"su*ra*bly, adv.
INCURABLE a.
ection; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke. They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. Sir J. Stephen.
INDECISION n.
endency to produce it. Shenstone. Indecision . . . is the natural accomplice of violence. Burke.
INDECOROUS a.
ecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. Burke.
INDEFENSIBLE n.
ng can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal, they thought utterly indefensible. Burke.
INDEMNIFICATION n.
being indemnified. Indemnification is capable of some estimate; dignity has no standard. Burke.
INDIGESTED a.
of facts. In hot reformations . . . the whole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested. Burke. This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time. South.
INDIVIDUALLY adv.
or relation; as individuals; separately; each by itself. "Individually or collectively." Burke. How should that subsist solitarily by itself which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist with it Hooker.
INEFFICACIOUS a.
hority of Parliament must become inefficacious . . . to restrain the growth of disorders. Burke.
INELIGIBLE a.
Not eligible; not qualified to be chos Burke.
INEQUITABLE a.
Not equitable; not just. Burke.
INERTNESS n.
or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke.
INEVITABLE a.
hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke.
INEXPIABLE a.
[Archaic] "Inexpiable hate." Milton. They are at inexpiable war with all establishments. Burke.
INEXPLICABLE a.
; their views become vast and perplexed, to others inexplicable, to themselves uncertain. Burke.
INEXPUGNABLE a.
Incapable of being subdued by force; impregnable; unconquerable. Burke. A fortress, inexpugnable by the arts of war. Milman.
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