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ence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant. We are at war with a system, which, by its essence, is inimical to all other governments. Burke.

s initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honor after death. Bp. Warburton. He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty. Spectator.

The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. [R.] Bp. Warburton.

To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime. He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. Bp. Warburton.

as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments. All the lofty instruments of war. Shak.

Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. T. Warton.

In an intellective manner. [R.] "Not intellectivelly to write." Warner.

d; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.

Admitting of exchange or mutual substitution. "Interchangeable warrants." Bacon.

ence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton.

rty disputes. Swift. There was no room for anyone to interfere with his own opinions. Bp. Warburton.

rpose 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.

act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation. T. Warton.

ary cessations; not continual; intermittent. "Intermissive miseries." Shak. "Intermissive wars." Howell.

Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.

Internal; inward; -- opposed to external. Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcers. Milton.

Enthronement. Bp. Warburton.

Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton.

Inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person. He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic valu…

A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder.