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al induction is founded on the necessary laws of thought; philosophical induction, on the interpretation of the indications or analogy of nature.

Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others inexplicable, to themselves uncertain. Burke.

ent employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief. Wharton.

One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner. Jer. Taylor.

That part of theological science directly preliminary to actual exegesis, or interpretation of the Scriptures.

udges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this.…

An interpreter. [Obs.] Coke.

To interpret or apply in a legal spirit.

That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.

One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.

To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.

The science of worship; history, doctrine, and interpretation of liturgies.

To solve; to interpret. [Obs.] Spenser.

Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language. Payne.

of anything disagreeable or distressing; difficulty; trouble. And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife. Milton.

To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker.

To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.

Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously. Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent. Dryden. Much afflicted to find his actions misconstrued. Addison.

Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.