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ickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc. Addison.

wledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. Pope. -- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. Boyle.

speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage.

Specifically, addicted to an excessive or habitual use of alcoholic liquors.

ianced lover. If it were not that I might appear to disparage his intended, . . . I would add that to me she seems to be throwing herself away. Dickens.

Adding intensity; intensifying.

Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.

Introduced or inserted among others; additional; supernumerary. "Intercalary spines." Owen. This intercalary line . . . is made the last of a triplet. Beattie. Intercalary day (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs. Mayne.

cerns is natural to all men. Dryden. A goddess who used to interest herself in marriages. Addison.

To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book. Swift.

Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.

Inserted in, or added to, the original; introduced; foisted in; changed by the insertion of new or spurious matter.

eption of the various degrees of orders. Nonobservance of the interstices . . . is a sin. Addis & Arnold.

ted himself of two or three sentences with a look of much business and great intrepidity. Addison.

fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. Addison. The nature of man is intricate. Burke.

or welcome; encroachment. Why this intrusion Were not my orders that I should be private Addison.

whole poem is a prayer to Fortune, and the invocation is divided between the two deities. Addison.

To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing. Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb, . . . Invoke his warlike spirit. Shak.…

Addicted to the use of irony; given to irony. -- I*ron"ic*al*ly, adv. -- I*ron"ic*al*ness, n.

Incapable of being reclaimed. Addison. -- Ir`re*claim"a*bly, ad