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Of any right (called right, or jus, in rem) of such a nature as to be available over its subject without reference to one person more than another, or, as generally expressed, a right competent, or available, against all persons. Rights in rem include not alone rights over physical property, but all rights available ag…

Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions. Cowper.

Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body. Here shalt thou sit incarnate. Milton. He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. Jortin.

he state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

s, ambition. A strength and obduracy of character incompatible with his meek and innocent nature. Southey.

Mutability of temper, and inconsistency with ourselves, is the greatest weakness of human nature. Addison.

sentiment, steadiness to principle, etc.; unequal; fickle; changeable. Ah, how unjust to nature, and himself, Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man. Young.

archer; an explorer; an investigator. [Obs.] Searched into by such skillful indagators of nature. Boyle.

iminal, when it is conversant about objects which are so far from being of an indifferent nature, that they are highest importance. Addison.

of Bacon. It ascends from the parts to the whole, and forms, from the general analogy of nature, or special presumptions in the case, conclusions which have greater or less degrees of force, and which may be strengthened or weakened by subsequent experience and experiment. It relates to actual existences, as in physic…

ting that those substances of whose names it is a part are basic, and alkaloidal in their nature.

. "The inevitable hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke.

; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent.

nd particular propositions. I. Watts. The body, or, as some love to call it, our inferior nature. Burke. Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge. Dryden.

Incapable of change; unalterable; immutable. The nature of things is inflexible. I. Watts.

A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment.…

One who informs, animates, or inspires. [Obs.] Thomson. Nature, informer of the poet's art. Pope.

ty, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them. South.

To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc. Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath . . . manured . . . with good store of ferti…

seconded by great activity, scrambled in at a high window. Johnson. Curiosity in children nature has provided, to remove that ignorance they were born with; which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull. Locke.