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The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed. Ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

tened. He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. Tillotson.

The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.

One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.

In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.

To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly. [R.] Hudibras. Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic. Coleridge.

one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

Immoderateness; excess. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Commanding. [R.] Baxter.

Not persevering; fickle; thoughtless. [Obs.]

The quality or state of being impertransible. [R.]

Incapable of being passed through. [R.]

In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu.

hat impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check. Cowper.

One who holds Kent.

See Endurance.

Exemption from error. The absolute inerrancy odf the Bible. The Century.

One of the Inferobranchiata.

A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.

e gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.