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Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore. [R.]

inert from weariness. Landor. Repletion and inanition may both do harm in two contrary extremes. Burton.

Inch of water. See under Water. -- Miner's inch, (Hydraulic Mining), a unit for the measurement of water. See Inch of water, under Water.

Comprehending the stated limit or extremes; as, from Monday to Saturday inclusive, that is, taking in both Monday and Saturday; -- opposed to exclusive.

The state of being uncurable; irremediableness. Harvey.

Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot.

In a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably. "Incurably diseased." Bp. Hall. "Incurably wicked." Blair.

Done without deliberation; unpremeditated. [Obs.] -- In`de*lib"er*ate*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.

To show or manifest by symptoms; to point to as the proper remedies; as, great prostration of strength indicates the use of stimulants.

Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.

th skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora.

To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.

The act of baiting; allurement. [Obs.] Hallywell.

(R. C. Ch.), the dogma that the pope can not, when acting in his official character of supreme pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian faith or rule of morals, to be held by the church. This was decreed by the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican, July 18, 1870.

t; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy. To whom also he showed himself alive, after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts i. 3.

A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.

Very; exceedingly; vastly; highly; extremely. "Infinitely pleased." Dryden.

al calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given to variables as infinitesimal.

outside the visible spectrum at its red end; -- said of rays less refrangible than the extreme red rays.