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he object -- though be courtesy of idiom rather than in strict propriety of language. Coleridge. Every good writer has much idiom. Landor. It is not by means of rules that such idioms as the following are made current: "I can make nothing of it." "He treats his subject home." Dryden. "It is that within us that makes fo…

A false notion or conception; a fallacy. Bacon. The idols of preconceived opinion. Coleridge.

zzle you, nor his scholastic retairy versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense. Coleridge.

Capacity for imagination. [R.] Coleridge.

; conceptive; creative. Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. Coleridge.

; to mix confusedly. [R.] Hudibras. Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic. Coleridge.

Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased. Coleridge.

de, of husbandry, or of war. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge.

That which fills up; filling. Coleridge.

l authority; self- evidencing; obvious. The imprescriptible laws of the pure reason. Colerridge.

Not admitting of appeal; not appealable. Coleridge.

The quality of being inappellable; finality. The inappellability of the councils. Coleridge.

To infuse by breathing; to inspire. Coleridge.

Want of celebrity or distinction; obscurity. [R.] Coleridge.

Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge. Shak.

Not corresponding; disagreeing. [R.] Coleridge.

great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge.

r feeling. A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business. Coleridge.

To make infamous; to defame. [R.] Coleridge.

uate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion. "The informing Word." Coleridge. Let others better mold the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass. Dryden. Breath informs this fleeting frame. Prior. Breathes in our soul,informs our mortal part. Pope.