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fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson.

Done by imposture. [Obs.]

Impostrous; deceitful. Strictness fales and impostrous. Beau. & Fl.

Imposture. [Obs.] Fuller.

A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.

A state of being unmixed; separateness. Sir T. Browne.

Incubation. [Obs.] J. Ellis.

Want or neglect of cultivation or culture. [Obs.] Feltham.

party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master. The law is the best expositor of the gospel; they are like a pair of indentures: they answer in every part. C. Leslie.

Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.

Inquisitorial. [Obs.] "Our inquisiturient bishops." Milton.

Not capable of being saturated or satisfied.

An engraving, carving, or inscription. [Obs.] On his gravestone this insculpture. Shak.

Engraved. Glover.

A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence. [Obs.] Shak.

Intemperateness. [Obs.] Boyle.

A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle.

eaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.

Inwrought; woven in.

To render turbid; to darken; to confuse. [R.] The confusion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology. Coleridge.