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Not pious; wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language. When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. Addison.

To accomplish; to fulfill. [R.] Revenge . . . executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown. Sir W. Scott.

The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain.

To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility. With due respect my body I inclined. Dryden.

e profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income. No fields afford So large an income to the village lord. Dryden.

Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties. Debt and usury is the incubus which weighs most heavily on the agricultural resources of Turkey. J. L. Farley.

The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence. "The incurvations of the knee." Bp. Hall.

The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems. Hanging, or Reverse, indentation, indentation of all the lines of a paragraph except the first, which is a full line.

ndissoluble league or covenant. To the which my duties Are with a most indissoluble tie Forever knit. Shak.

f infecting. There was a strict order against coming to those pits, and that was only to prevent infection. De Foe.

e act of attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation.

not influenced by the weight or pressure of the atmosphere. Sir I. Newton. This standing revelation . . . is sufficient to influence their faith and practice, if they attend. Attebury. The principle which influenced their obedience has lost its efficacy. Rogers.

ce a new measure or course of action, as in legislation; as, the initiative in respect to revenue bills is in the House of Representatives.

To prevent or hinder oxidation, rust, or decay; as, inoxidizing oils or varnishes.

eparable from that of the people by whom it is spoken. Mure. Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable. D. Webster.

To prevent the transfer o Insulating stool (Elec.), a stool with legs of glass or some other nonconductor of electricity, used for insulating a person or any object placed upon it.

The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity or of heat; also, the state of a body so separated.

and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.

particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.

Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.