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Not judicious; wanting in sound judgment; undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise; as, an injudicious adviser. An injudicious biographer who undertook to be his editor and the protector of his memory. A. Murphy.

The quality of being injudicious; want of sound judgment; indiscretion. Whitlock.

amage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sens…

Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.

To render unsound; to make mad. [Obs.] Feltham.

The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy. All power of fancy overreason is a degree of insanity. Johnson. Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. Cowper.

Disappointing; imperfect; unsound. [Obs.] To render sleep's soft blessings insincere. Pope.

spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham.

A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument. Praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Ps. cl. 4. But signs when songs and instruments he hears. Dryden.

of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental sounds. Dryden.

Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal,…

Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency. Jer. Taylor. Sounds . . . likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind. Bacon.

influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or…

The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder.

Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.

To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol- fa.

The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate. Pope.

t of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively. Intoxicated with the sound of those very bells. G. Eliot. They are not intoxicated by military success. Jowett (Thuc. ).

The frequent use of the sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding Littré.