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Inflectional; characterized by variation, or change in form, to mark case, tense, etc.; subject to inflection. Inflective language (Philol.), a language like the Greek or Latin, consisting largely of stems with variable terminations or suffixes which were once independent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manli…

ction. Larger opportunities of information. Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.

To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.

mething; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities. They do but inhere in the subject that supports them. Digby.

Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation. Innocent party (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.

Capable of being inquired into; subject or liable to inquisition or inquest. Bacon.

nable to pay their debts. Insolvent law, or Act of insolvency, a law affording relief, -- subject to various modifications in different States, -- to insolvent debtors, upon their delivering up their property for the benefit of their creditors. See Bankrupt law, under Bankrupt, a.

To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.

ken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. To love our native country . . . to be interested in its concerns is natural to all men. Dryden. A goddess who used to interest herself in marriages. Addison.…

to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. Abbott.

Depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective. Everything labors under and intestine necessity. Cudworth.

To open to notice; to begin; to present; as, he introduced the subject with a long preface.

That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium.

Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.

Said of a subject, or phrase, when the intervals of which it consists are repeated in the contrary direction, rising instead of falling, or vice versa.

To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.

One who searches diligently into a subject.

The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.

the act or process of constructing; a thing constructed; dominion, territory ruled over; subjection, state of being subject; dejection; abstraction.

One of the elements which appear at the respective poles when a body is subjected to electro-chemical decomposition. Cf. Anion, Cation.