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To render more grievous; to aggravate. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

as an heir. By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male. Blackstone. Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified…

re inhibited, by proclamation, at the dissolution, so much as to mention a Parliament. Clarendon. Burial may not be inhibited or denied to any one. Ayliffe.

st inkling or glimpse of this island. Bacon. They had some inkling of secret messages. Clarendon.

Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.

ent. The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne. Milton.

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

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

reflexively. He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham. Clarendon.

e bad a natural insinuation and address which made him acceptable in the best company. Clarendon.

Wanting wisdom; stupid; foolish. [R.] Clarendon. -- n.

the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar.

[Obs.] He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. Clarendon.

To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.

Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered. You shall have your desires with interest. Shak.

To interweave or interlace. [R.] Brende.

mething) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.

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

To make or render invalid or infirm. "Invalided, bent, and almost blind." Dickens.

To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.