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; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.

e marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. Bp. Burnet.

diner had performed his promise to the queen of getting her illegitimation taken off. Bp. Burnet.

huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. Spenser.

Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable. [R.] O! how I burn with implacable fire. Spenser. Which wrought them pain Implacable, and many a dolorous groan. Milton.

A woman in love; a mistress. "The fair inamorata." Sherburne.

Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul. Bp. Burnet. -- In`ca*pa"cious*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.

To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman.

The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible. [R.] Evelyn.

Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed. [Obs.] Bacon.

Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas. Incombustible cloth, a tissue of amianthus or asbestus; also, a fabric imbued with an incombustible substance. -- In`com*bus"ti*ble*ness, n.…

Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe. Sir T. Browne.

To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate.

Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation.

See Indecency. [Obs.] "An indecence of barbarity." Bp. Burnet.

the war path. -- Indian fire, a pyrotechnic composition of sulphur, niter, and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light. -- Indian grass (Bot.), a coarse, high grass (Chrysopogon nutans), common in the southern portions of the United States; wood grass. Gray. -- Indian hemp. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Apo…

The state or quality of being undigested; crudeness. Bp. Burnet.

ation; not subject to release or exemption. [R.] The law was moral and indispensable. Bp. Burnet.

or, when inducted into that dignity, took an oath not to alienate any of their lands. Bp. Burnet.