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Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but independent crust. Cowper.

Independency; the church system of Independents. Bp. Gauden.

In an independent manner; without control.

Incapable of being deposed. [R.] Princes indeposable by the pope. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Undepraved. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

Incapable or undeserving of being deprecated. Cockeram.

Incapable of being found out. Bp. Morton.

Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away.

Incapable of being described. -- In`de*scrib"a*bly, adv.

Not descriptive.

Ill desert. [R.] Addison.

Not ceasing; perpetual. [Obs.] Baxter. -- In*des"i*nent*ly, adv. [Obs.] Ray.

Undesirable.

The quality of being indestructible.

Not destructible; incapable of decomposition or of being destroyed. -- In`de*struc"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In`de*struc"ti*bly, adv.

Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.

Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. Paley. Indeterminate analysis (Math.), that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems. -- Indeterminate coefficients (Math.), coefficients arbitrarily assumed for convenience o…

Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind. Jer. Taylor.

Undetermined.

Not devirginate. [Obs.] Chapman.