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Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.

Search for truth, information, or knoledge; examination into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical inquiries. All that is wanting to the perfection of this art will undoubtedly be found, if able men . . . will make inquiry into it. Dryden. Court of inquiry. See under Court. -- Writ of inquiry, a w…

t, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham.

To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct. [Obs.] If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself. Dr. H. More.

Containing the first principles or doctrines; elemental; rudimentary.

foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.

The state or principles of international interests and intercourse.

One who is versed in the principles of international law.

to cause to affect the mutual relations of two or more nations; as, to internationalize a principle of law, or a philanthropic enterprise.

The act or process of applying general principles or formulæ to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

y Thales of Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that water is the original principle of all things. -- Ionic type, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the following line).

ommon form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion;…

Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South.

The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.

The principles of the Jacobites. Mason.

Conforming to the principles of the Jesuits. Milton.

One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633.

Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.

The principles and practices of the Jesuits.

igious war against infidels or Mohammedan heretics; also, any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief.