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597 words match “BURKE”

INFAMOUSLY adv.
The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke.
INFANTINE a.
Infantile; childish. A degree of credulity next infantine. Burke.
INFERABLE a.
so inferrible.] H. Spencer. A sufficient argument . . . is inferable from these premises. Burke.
INFERIOR a.
cular 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.
INFIRM a.
Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating. "An infirm judgment." Burke. Infirm of purpose! Shak.
INFLAMMATORY a.
lt, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications. Burke.
INFORMANT n.
ee Informer. [Obs. or R.] It was the last evidence of the kind; the informant was hanged. Burke.
INGRAFT v.
foreign name Upon our stock. Dryden. A custom . . . ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome. Burke.
INIMICAL a.
We are at war with a system, which, by its essence, is inimical to all other governments. Burke.
INIQUITOUS a.
us bargain; an iniquitous proceeding. Demagogues . . . bribed to this iniquitous service. Burke.
INJUSTICE n.
r extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. Burke.
INORDINATE a.
; as, an inordinate love of the world. "Inordinate desires." Milton. "Inordinate vanity." Burke. -- In*or"di*nate*ly, adv. -- In*or"di*nate*ness, n.
INSECURITY n.
Browne. A time of insecurity, when interests of all sorts become objects of speculation. Burke.
INSTIGATOR n.
One who instigates or incites. Burke.
INSTITUTE n.
the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n. They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy. Burke. To make the Stoics' institutes thy own. Dryden.
INSTRUMENTALLY adv.
will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke.
INSURRECTIONARY a.
cterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious. Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke.
INTEGRANT a.
nstitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss of its original constitution, as by mechanical division.
INTELLIGENCER n.
litics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.
INTEMPERATELY adv.
restraint. The people . . . who behaved very unwisely and intemperately on that occasion. Burke.
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