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are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that therinconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics. Addison.

Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.

The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland.

Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.

Without corruption. To demean themselves incorruptly. Milton.

Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.

estation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. Macaulay.

Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. [R.] Milton. So have Iseen a river gintly glide In a smooth course, and inoffensive tide. Addison. -- In"of*fen"sive*ly, adv. -- In"of*fen"sive*ness, n.

A cutting off, through, or asunder; interruption. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of interpelling or interrupting; interruption. "Continual interpellations." Bp. Hall.

To utter a sentiment by way of interruption. Boyle.

One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties. Shak.

With breaks or interruptions; discontinuously. Interruptedly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate with small leaflets intermixed with large ones. Gray.

enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain. Such an enemy Is risen to invade us. Milton.

s, and characterized by palpitation, depression, and general emaciation, with a pustular eruption upon the skin.

An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.

Underhand management; official corruption; as, municipal jobbery. Mayhew.

An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry. From the jump, from the start or beginning. [Colloq.] -- Jump joint. (a) A butt joint. (b) A flush joint, as of plank in carvel-built vessels. -- Jump seat. (a) A movable carriage seat. (b) A carriage constructed with a seat which may be shifted so as…

A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.

A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.