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In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.

The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.

Not quenched; not extinct.

Urged or sas, birds instinct with life. The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham.

Instinct; incitement; inspiration. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning, deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous. "Instinctive motion." Milton. "Instinctive dread." Cowper. With taste instinctive giv…

In an instinctive manner; by force of instinct; by natural impulse.

The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct. [R.] Coleridge.

Distinguishing. [Obs.] Wallis.

The act of tingeing or dyeing. Blount.

The want of the quality of coloring or tingeing other bodies. Kirwan.

Act of quenching or extingishing. [Obs.]

Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial. As undistinctive Death will come here one day. Dickens.

Indistinctly.

A preparation containing quinine and many other ingredients, often used in the treatment of malarial affections. It was invented by Dr. Warburg of London.

becedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

ent refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.

wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.