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Want of civism; want of patriotism or love to one's country; unfriendliness to one's state or government. [R.] Macaulay.

Existence without a body or material form; immateriality. Cudworth.

Independency; the church system of Independents. Bp. Gauden.

y, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism. The indifferentism which equalizes all religions and gives equal rights to truth and error. Cardinal Manning.

e selfishness of the small proprietor has been described by the best writers as individualism. Ed. Rev.

The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor. Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness. H. Spencer.

The doctrine, belief, or principles of the Inralapsarians.

istent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to tradicianism and creationism.

Pedantry. Sir T. Wilson.

The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n.

Intellectual power; intellectuality.

The state or principles of international interests and intercourse.

ognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.

Same as Intuitionalism.

The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong are intuitive. J. Grote.

The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.

A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.

The frequent use of the sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding Littré.

Irishism. [R.] Jeffrey.

A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.