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Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.

We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance, but not for our own interest. Swift.

Ruin of one's own interests. "Intestine war, which may be justly called political suicide." V. Knox.

The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion. Shak. Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom. South.

The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything. Blackstone.

The right of a joint tenant, or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of other. Blackstone. Chance of survivorship, the chance that a person of a given age has of surviving another of a giving age; thus, by the Carlisle tables of mortality the chances of survivorshi…

swayed. Hudibras. Let not temporal and little advantages sway you against a more durable interest. Tillotson.

To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Prov. vi. 25. Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience. Wake. I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the…

The act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected. Wholesome temperaments of the rashness of popular assemblies. Sir J. Mackintosh.

That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; -- chiefly used in the plural. Supreme head, . . . under God, of the spirituality and temporality of the same church. Fuller.

onpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.

aust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade. Shak. Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past. Dryden. To tire out, to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.

ng a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest.

ed combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.

rio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest. Dickens.

Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. -- Trite"ly, adv. -- Trite"ness, n.

To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. [U.S.]

; to struggle. England now is left To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth The unowed interest of proud-swelling state. Shak.

Not interesting of affecting; insignificant; not belonging to one. [Obs.] Addison.

Free from any temporary estate or interest, or from mortgage, or other charge or debt; as, an estate unincumbered with dower.