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nguage -- the productive imagination of philosophers -- is nothing but the representative process plus the process to which I would give the name of the "comparative." Sir W. Hamilton. The power of the mind to decompose its conceptions, and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure, is called its faculty of ima…

The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post- mortem imbibition of poisons. Bacon.

The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.

The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic]

The act or process of implantating.

The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.

The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.

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

The act or process of using formulas sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment. "Mysterious ceremony and incantation." Burke.

The process of becoming, or the state or condition of being, incapsulated; as, incapsulation of the ovum in the uterus.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased.

The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.

The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than its…

Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process. Ray.

The act or process of indemnifying, preserving, or securing against loss, damage, or penalty; reimbursement of loss, damage, or penalty; the state of being indemnified. Indemnification is capable of some estimate; dignity has no standard. Burke.

line substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo 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.…

The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement. I know not you; nor am I well pleased to make this time, as the affair now stands, the induction of your acquaintance. Beau. & Fl. These promises are fair, the parties sure, And our induction dull of prosperous hope. Shak.…

The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.