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Not evident; not clear or obvious; obscure.

Not explicit; not clearly stated; indefinite; vague.

ons of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor. Such is the infatuation of self-love. Blair.

e; to instruct; to tell; to notify; to enlighten; -- usually followed by of. For he would learn their business secretly, And then inform his master hastily. Spenser. I am informed thoroughky of the cause. Shak.

Mental; intellectual. [Obs.] A course of learning and ingenious studies. Shak.

ving the rest to employ our industry. Dr. H. More. To initiate his pupil into any part of learning, an ordinary skill in the governor is enough. Locke.

Learned; pedantic; affected. [Obs.] "Inkhorn terms." Bale.

To clear of outlawry or attainder; to place under the protection of the law. Burrill.

for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown.

To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knoledge; to make examination. And inquire Gladly into the ways of God with man. Miltom.

ion; a question or questioning. He could no path nor track of foot descry, Nor by inquiry learn, nor guess by aim. Spenser. The men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate. Acts x. 17.

The act of inquiring; inquiry; search; examination; inspection; investigation. As I could learn through earnest inquisition. Latimer. Let not search and inquisition quail To bring again these foolish runaways. Shak.

e of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity. Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity, scrambled in at a high window. Johnson. Curiosity in children nature has provided, to remove th…

oduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill. All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. Locke. Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of…

Not clear or melodious.

n foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit. And haply institute A course of learning and ingenious studies. Shak.

The quality or state of being intelligible; clearness; perspicuity; definiteness.

In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.

The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts. Gwilt.

style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. Addison. The nature of man is intricate. Burke.