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The act or process of infecting. There was a strict order against coming to those pits, and that was only to prevent infection. De Foe.

The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction. Though it may chance to be right in the conclusions, it is yet unjust and mistaken in the method of inference. Glanvill.

To cover with a film; to coat thinly; as, to infilm one metal with another in the process of gilding; to infilm the glass of a mirror. [R.]

The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.

The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle.

Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affa…

nel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.

The act or process of steeping or soaking any substance in water in order to extract its virtues.

To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.

The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc. "The initiation of coursers of events." Pope.

The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance.

A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.

e; producing no effects; as, laws renderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.

The act or process of inscribing.

The act or process of drying in.

The act or process of insinuating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in. By a soft insinuation mix'd With earth's large mass. Crashaw.

The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar.

The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation. Spenser. With narrow search, and with inspection deep, Considered every creature. Milton.

The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. The institution of God's law is described as being established by solemn injunction. Hooker.