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INTEMPERANCY n.

Intemperance. [Obs.]

Intemperate. [Obs.] Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.

INTEMPERATE a. 4 definitions

Indulging any appetite or passion to excess; immoderate to enjoyments or exertion.

INTEMPERATELY adv.

In an intemperate manner; immoderately; excessively; without restraint. The people . . . who behaved very unwisely and intemperately on that occasion. Burke.

INTEMPERATENESS n. 2 definitions

The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.

INTEMPERATURE n.

Intemperateness. [Obs.] Boyle.

INTENERATE v. 2 definitions

To make tender or sensitive; to soften.

INTENERATION n.

The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening. [R.] Bacon.

INTERACT v. 2 definitions

To act upon each other; as, two agents mutually interact. Emerson. Tyndall.

INTERACTION n. 2 definitions

Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other.

INTERADDITIVE a.

Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.

Intermediate agency.

An intermediate agent.

Entrail or inside. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

INTERALVEOLAR a.

Between alveoli; as, the interalveolar septa between adjacent air cells in the lungs.

INTERAMBULACRAL a.

Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.

INTERAMBULACRUM n.

In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum.

Situated between rivers. [R.] "An interamnian country." J. Bryant.

INTERANIMATE v.

To animate or inspire mutually. [Obs.] Donne.

INTERARBORATION n.

The interweaving of branches of trees. [R.] Sir T. Browne.