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Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices. "Inquisitorial robes." C. Buchanan.

Want of claim to consideration or notice; want of influence or standing; meanness. Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance. Beattie.

ation. Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton.

for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. Dunglison.

Information communicated; news; notice; advice. Intelligence is given where you are hid. Shak.

meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants.

article on interviewing in the "Nation" of January 28, 1869, . . . was the first formal notice of the practice under that name. The American.

To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office. The names of simple ideas and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real existence, from which was derived their original pattern. Locke.…

A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design. Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him. Bp. Burnet.

A method or practice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together.

t substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.

To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol- fa.

Arts or practice of intrigue.

To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use; as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant.

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

custom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. "To inure our prompt obedience." Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.…

Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

ead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells To inveigle and invite the un unwary sense. Milton.

The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; that which inveigles; enticement; seduction. South.