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To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding.

In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation.

ng. Having thus at length inquired the truth concerning law and dispense. Milton. And all obey and few inquire his will. Byron.

Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices. "Inquisitorial robes." C. Buchanan.

Want of subjection or obedience; a state of disobedience, as to government.

Want of submission; disobedience; noncompliance.

Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous

The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.

intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

l grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. Cowper.

er blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it. F. W. Robertson.

Between lobes; as, the interlobar notch of the liver; the interlobar ducts of a gland.

To put (something into a place); to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe.

n or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. "To inure our prompt obedience." Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

or noting, equal angles. Isogonic lines (Magnetism), lines traced on the surface of the globe, or upon a chart, connecting places at which the deviation of the magnetic needle from the meridian or true north is the same.

between them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

sima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower. [Written also Jacobean.]

r, as the stung Are of the adder. Shak. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Bacon.

e; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification. I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay or taste of my virtue. Shak.