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ompliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favorable; not severe; as, an indulgent parent. Shak. The indulgent censure of posterity. Waller. The feeble old, indulgent of their ease. Dryden.

Relating to the indulgences of the Roman Catholic Church. Brevint.

In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.

cal authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. "The insurgent provinces." Motley.

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton.

One who gives information; an intelligencer. [Obs.] Holinshed.

In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.

An intermediate agent.

Shining between.

A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum. Holland.

Refusing compromise; uncompromising; irreconcilable. Lond. Sat. Rev.

The extreme radicals; the party of the irreconcilables.

ze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

A margin; border; brink; edge. [Obs.] The beached margent of the sea. Shak.

An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers.

e; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "Be thou negligent of fame." Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Rambler.

In a negligent manner.

A master of arts whose regency has ceased. See Regent.

Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Byron.