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to persons in respect to whom it is doubtful whether they have or have not been baptized before. Hook. -- Hy`po*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. South.

An inversion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.

ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.

the presence of an objectionable person. Ignoring Italy under our feet, And seeing things before, behind. Mrs. Browning.

nowledge to the mind by God; inspiration. Hymns and psalms . . . are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired. Hooker.

putation (Surg.), an amputation performed within the first few hours after an injury, and before the the effects of the shock have passed away.

ars) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.

To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment. Blackstone.

Pope. The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay.

o charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.

a player that a curse or calamnity may fall on any one; a curse. Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations. Motley.

ch terrible impression made the dream. Shak. I have a father's dear impression, And wish, before I fall into my grave, That I might see her married. Ford.

Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous. [Obs.] Jonhson.

orn, inroad; incline, inject, intrude. In words from the Latin, in- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial; as, illusion, irruption, imblue, immigrate, impart. In- is sometimes used with an simple intensive force.

To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach. P. Miler.

An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun. (b) pl.

up; to rouse; to spur or urge on. Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon. No blown ambition doth our arms incite. Shak.

pany issuing it, and the interest of which is to be paid from the earnings of the company before any dividends are made to stockholders; -- issued chiefly or exclusively by railroad companies. -- Income tax, a tax upon a person's incomes, emoluments, profits, etc., or upon the excess beyond a certain amount.…

A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch; especially, a book printed before A. D. 1500.

catalogue of books from which passages marked as against faith or morals must be removed before Catholics can read them. These catalogues are published with additions, from time to time, by the Congregation of the Index, composed of cardinals, theologians, etc., under the sanction of the pope. Hook. -- Index rerum Et…