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918 words match “EVERY”

ILKON; ILKOON pron.
Each one; every one. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ILLUSTRIOUS a.
tness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened everywhere. Drayton.
IMMANENCE; IMMANENCY n.
an indwelling. [Clement] is mainly concerned in enforcing the immanence of God. Christ is everywhere presented by him as Deity indwelling in the world. A. V. G. Allen.
IMMODERATE a.
ravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter. So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Shak.
IMPEARL v. 2 definitions
pearls, or into that which resembles pearls. [Poetic] Dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. Milton.
IMPLEX a.
Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex. The fable of every poem is . . . simple or implex. it is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. Addison.
IMPORT v.
To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify. Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a multitude of speakers together. Hooker.
IMPRISONMENT n.
nt. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the public streets. Blackstone. False imprisonment. (Law) See under False.…
IMPROPRIETY n.
t which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of language. But every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities. Johnson. Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded. Swift.
IN prep.
west. Shak. Situated in the forty-first degree of latitude. Gibbon. Matter for censure in every page. Macaulay.
INAUGURATION DAY n.
The day on which the President of the United States is inaugurated, the 4th of March in every year next after a year divisible by four.
INCLOSURE n.
That which incloses; a barrier or fence. Breaking our inclosures every morn. W. Browne.
INCREDULITY n.
The state or quality of being i Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is the most irrational. Buckminster.
INDECISIVE a.
o a final or ultimate issue; as, an indecisive battle, argument, answer. The campaign had everywhere been indecisive. Macaulay.
INDENTURE n.
w is the best expositor of the gospel; they are like a pair of indentures: they answer in every part. C. Leslie.
INDIFFERENT a.
Not mal Dangers are to me indifferent. Shak. Everything in the world is indifferent but sin. Jer. Taylor. His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. Hawthorne.
INFANTA n.
A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.
INFANTE n.
A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent.
INFINITY n.
nfinity, an imaginary circle at infinity, through which, in geometry of three dimensions, every sphere is imagined to pass. -- Circular points at infinity. See under Circular.
INNATE a.
d from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive. There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil. South. Men would not be guilty if they did not carry in their mind common notions of morality,innate and written in divine letters. Flem…
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