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INDEPENDENT a. 10 definitions
Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but independent crust. Cowper.
INDEPENDENTISM n.
Independency; the church system of Independents. Bp. Gauden.
INDEPENDENTLY adv.
In an independent manner; without control.
INEXTENDED a.
Not extended.
INGENDER v.
See Engender.
INNUENDO n. 2 definitions
o a person or thing not named; an insinuation. Mercury . . . owns it a marriage by an innuendo. Dryden. Pursue your trade of scandal picking; Your innuendoes, when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows. Swift.
INTEND v. 9 definitions
To stretch' to extend; to distend. [Obs.] By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale.
INTENDANCY n. 2 definitions
The office or employment of an intendant.
INTENDANT n. 2 definitions
One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
INTENDED a. 4 definitions
Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. [Obs.] Spenser.
INTENDEDLY adv.
Intentionally. [R.] Milton.
INTENDENT n.
See Intendant, n. [Obs.]
INTENDER n.
One who intends. Feltham.
INTENDIMENT n.
Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. [Obs.] Spenser.
INTENDMENT n. 3 definitions
Intention; design; purpose. The intendment of God and nature. Jer. Taylor.
INTERDEPENDENCE n.
Mutual dependence. "The interdependence of virtue and knowledge." M. Arnold.
INTERDEPENDENCY n.
Mutual dependence; as, interdependency of interests. De Quincey.
INTERDEPENDENT a.
Mutually dependent.
INTERSCENDENT a.
wers; as, xsq. root2, or xsq. roota. Interscedent series, a series whose terms are interscendent quantities. Hutton.
INUENDO n.
See Innuendo.
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