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s to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship of them. Bp. Stillingfleet.

consequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.

iped their images as golds, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. Bp. Stillingfleet.

A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams. Tylor. Period of incubation, or Stage of incubation (Med.), the period which elapses between exposure to the causes of a disease and the attack resulting from it; the time of development of the supposed germs or spores.

Incapable of being deposed. [R.] Princes indeposable by the pope. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Suggestive; representing the whole by a part, as a fleet by a ship, a forest by a tree, etc. Indicative mood (Gram.), that mood or form of the verb which indicates, that is, which simply affirms or denies or inquires; as, he writes; he is not writing; has the mail arrived

party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial. Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die. Addison.

nding which inequality of number, it was resolved in a council of war to fight the Dutch fleet. Ludlow. Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition. Macaulay.

; to cause to burn, flame, or glow. We should have made retreat By light of the inflamed fleet. Chapman.

the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass. Dryden. Breath informs this fleeting frame. Prior. Breathes in our soul,informs our mortal part. Pope.

Indifferent to obligation or duty. [Obs.] Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep. B. Jonson.

s were very weakly inserted where they will be so liable to misconstruction. Bp. Stillingfleet.

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

Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

Restless; sleepless. Blount.

Sleeplessness.

islands; insulation. The insularity of Britain was first shown by Agricola, who sent his fleet round it. Pinkerton.

the tedium of waiting. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes When monarch reason sleeps. Dryden.

Endless; as, interminate sleep. Chapman.

Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness. [R.]