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moreover a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones together, so as to form new wholes of our creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power. Stewart.

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.

Driven together or close. Impacted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.

To lay color on canvas by uniting them skillfully together. [R.] Cf. Impasto.

To infold; to fold together; to interweave. The meeting boughs and implicated leaves. Shelley.

mply; to signify. Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a multitude of speakers together. Hooker.

The act of linking together; enchaining. [R.] Goldsmith.

ts, facts, etc. Incoherences in matter, and suppositions without proofs, put handsomely together, are apt to pass for strong reason. Locke.

Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines. Incompatible terms (Logic), terms which can not be combined in thought.

Badly put together; inartificial; rude; unpolished; irregular. "Carol incondite rhymes." J. Philips.

iment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between that which is of debt and that which is of free gift. South.

Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied. As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. Shak. A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold. Bacon.

ndigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with 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.

es, or conclusions, are the effects of reasoning, and the three propositions, taken all together, are called syllogism, or argument. I. Watts.

ises in the law. Herbert. Two initiatory rites of the same general import can not exist together. J. M. Mason.

To fasten or bind, as with a knot; to knot together. Fuller.

To unite intimately; to cause to become as one. They were still together, grew (For so they said themselves) inosculated. Tennyson.

Not separate; together; united. Shak.

wed at the forward end; -- said of an automobile frame when the side members are closer together at the forward end than at the rear.

To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as by a chain. Two bosoms interchained with an oath. Shak.