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he matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable. Things that are impertinent to us. Tillotson. How impertinent that grief was which served no end! Jer. Taylor.

The quality of being impossible; impracticability. They confound difficulty with impossibility. South.

or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible. With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matt. xix. 26. Without faith it is impossible to please him. Heb. xi. 6. Impossible quantity (Math.), an imagnary quantity. See Imaginary.…

Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.

dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four- inch plank. Inch stuff, boards, etc., sawed one inch thick.

e, or beyond the reach of human intellect; incomprehensibleness; inconceivability; inexplicability. The constant, universal sense of all antiquity unanimously confessing an incomprehensibility in many of the articles of the Christian faith. South.

Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion. It is inconceivable to me that a spiritual substance should represent an extended figu…

In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably. "Incurably diseased." Bp. Hall. "Incurably wicked." Blair.

Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable. Bp. Reynolds.

In an inseparable manner; inseparably; incommunicably; indivisibly; as, individuallyhe same. [Omniscience], an attribute individually proper to the Godhead. Hakewill.

The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor. Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness. H. Spencer.

Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.

Ineffectual; impracticable. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Incapable of being executed or performed; impracticable; infeasible.

Incapable of being mollified or appeased; relentless; implacable. [Archaic] "Inexpiable hate." Milton. They are at inexpiable war with all establishments. Burke.

Incapable of being explained; inexplicable.

Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.

The state of being infeasible; impracticability.

Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable. Glanvill.

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. Shak.