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Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises. [Written also inferrible.] H. Spencer. A sufficient argument . . . is inferable from these premises. Burke.

The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction. Though it may chance to be right in the conclusions, it is yet unjust and mistaken in the method of inference. Glanvill.

Deduced or deducible by inference. "Inferential proofs." J. S. Mill.

By way of inference.

Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.

ellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath. A thousand inferior and particular propositions. I. Watts. The body, or, as some love to call it, our inferior nature. Burke. Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge. Dryden.…

The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.

In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.

ing to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth.

In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.

The infernal regions; hell. Also used fig.

One of the Inferobranchiata.

A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.

ng the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.

Inferable.

Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.

In an infertile manner.

The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness. The infertility or noxiousness of the soil. Sir M. Hale.

Not bearing fruit; not fructiferous.

Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs. Locke.