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A woman in love; a mistress. "The fair inamorata." Sherburne.

Enamored. Chapman. -- In*am"o*rate*ly, adv. [R.]

A male lover.

Not amovable or removable. [R.] Palgrave.

Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless. "Vague and inane instincts." I. Taylor. -- In*ane"ly, adv.

Not angular. [Obs.]

Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous. [R.]

Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances. Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves. Byron.

Destitute of life; lacking animation; unanimated. Pope.

The quality or state of being inanimate. The deadness and inanimateness of the subject. W. Montagu.

Infusion of life or vigor; animation; inspiration. [Obs.] The inanimation of Christ living and breathing within us. Bp. Hall.

To produce inanition in; to exhaust for want of nourishment. [R.]

Inanition. [R.]

The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result. Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. Landor. Repletio…

Inanition; void space; vacuity; emptiness.

Not bearing anthers; -- said of sterile stamens.

Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy. [R.]

Not admitting of appeal; not appealable. Coleridge.

Incapable of being appeased or satisfied; unappeasable.

The quality of being inappellable; finality. The inappellability of the councils. Coleridge.