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Unceasing; continual. [Obs.] Shelton. -- In*ces"sa*bly, adv. [Obs.]

The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness. Dr. T. Dwight.

or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc. Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and entrance did await. Spenser.

Unceasingly; continually. Shak.

Motion on foot; progress in walking. [Obs.] The incession or local motion of animals. Sir T. Browne.

persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law. Shak. Spiritual incest. (Eccl. Law) (a) The crime of cohabitation committed between persons who have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or confirmation. (b) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two benefices, the one dependin…

Guilty of incest; involving, or pertaining to, the crime of incest; as, an incestuous person or connection. Shak. Ere you reach to this incestuous love, You must divine and human rights remove. Dryden. -- In*cest"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- In*cest"tu*ous*ness, n.

An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc. [Scot.]

To lodge in a chamber. [R.] Sherwood.

Unchangeableness. [Obs.] Kenrick.

See Enchant.

Uncharitable; unfeeling. [Obs.] Shak.

Want of charity. [Obs.] Evelyn.

See Enchase.

Unchastity. [Obs.] Milton.

Having or measuring (so many) inches; as, a four-inched bridge. Shak.

To put into a chest.

See Inchpin.

A piece an inch long. By inchmeal, by small degrees; by inches. Shak.

; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.