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1,144 words match “SIB”

INDIVIDUALLY adv.
In an inseparable manner; inseparably; incommunicably; indivisibly; as, individuallyhe same. [Omniscience], an attribute individually proper to the Godhead. Hakewill.
INDURATE a. 2 definitions
Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.
INDURATION n.
Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling. A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business. Coleridge.
INEQUALITY n. 2 definitions
etc. There is so great an inequality in the length of our legs and arms as makes it impossible for us to walk on all four. Ray. Notwithstanding which inequality of number, it was resolved in a council of war to fight the Dutch fleet. Ludlow. Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition. Mac…
INERTNESS n.
ivity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke.
INEVITABILITY n.
Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
INEVITABLY adv.
Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly. Inevitably thou shalt die. Milton. How inevitably does immoderate laughter end in a sigh! South.
INEXECUTABLE a.
Incapable of being executed or performed; impracticable; infeasible.
INEXPRESSIVE a.
Inexpressible. [R.]
INFATUATE v.
tellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment. The judgment of God will be very visible in infatuating a people . . . ripe and prepared for destruction. Clarendon.
INFORM v.
To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear. [Obs.] It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. Shak.
INFRA-RED a.
Lying outside the visible spectrum at its red end; -- said of rays less refrangible than the extreme red rays.
INGENUOUS a.
ulation; open; frank; sa, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc. Sensible in myself . . . what a burden it is for me, who would be ingenuous, to be loaded with courtesies which he hath not the least hope to requite or deserve. Fuller.
INGRATITUDE n.
Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness. Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend. Shak. Ingratitude is abhorred both by God and man. L'Estrange.
INHERITABLE a.
Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title. Blackstone.
INJURE v.
racter. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind. When have I injured thee when done thee wrong Shak.
INROAD n.
the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne. Milton.
INSANITY n.
right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.
INSCRUTABLE a.
Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event. 'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. Beau. & Fl. Waiving a…
INSECABLE a.
Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible.
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