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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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8,644 words match “NER”

Not erratic or wandering; fixed; settled; established.

INERRINGLY adv.

Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly. Glanvill.

INERT a. 3 definitions

estitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.

INERTIA n. 3 definitions

ight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ.

Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude. [R.] These vicissitudes of exertion and inertion of the arterial system constitute the paroxysms of remittent fever. E. Darwin.

Inertness; inertia. [R.] Good.

Without activity; sluggishly. Pope.

INERTNESS n. 2 definitions

osition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke.

Not erudite; unlearned; ignorant.

To inter with funeral rites; to bury. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

INGENERABILLTY n.

Incapacity of being engendered or produced. Cudworth.

Incapble of being engendered or produced; original. Holland.

INGENERABLY adv.

In an ingenerable manner.

INGENERATE a. 2 definitions

Generated within; inborn; innate; as, ingenerate powers of body. W. Wotton. Those virtues were rather feigned and affected . . . than true qualities ingenerate in his judgment. Bacon.

INGENERATION n.

Act of ingenerating.

INNER a. 2 definitions

ernal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. Milton.

More within. [Obs.] Baret.

Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within. Prov. xviii. 8.

INNERMOSTLY adv.

In the innermost place. [R.] His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning.

To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.