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Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious. Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke.

the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person. Who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity Milton.

Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession or entreaty.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession; interceding; as, intercessory prayer.

ulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.

A short musical dramatic piece, of a light and pleasing, sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the acts of a play or an opera.

To have the character of, or to lie between, two distinct groups.

sent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.

Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome. Intrusive rocks (Geol.), rocks which have been forced, while in a plastic or melted state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks. The term is sometimes used as equivalent to plutonic rocks. It is then contrasted wi…

Pertaining to, or derived from, intuition; characterized by intuition; perceived by intuition; intuitive.

Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive. "Invasive war." Hoole.

Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.

ach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse. All men inveighed against him; all men, except court vassals, opposed him. Milton. The artificial life against which we inveighed. Hawthorne.

Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.

A morbid state produced by the use of iodine and its compounds, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.

Pertaining to irony; containing, expressing, or characterized by, irony; as, an ironical remark.

or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.

A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of responding…