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Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or things; as, inconstant in love or friendship. "The inconstant moon." Shak. While we, inquiring phantoms of a day, Inconstant as…

In an inconstant manner.

Not equally distant; not equidistant.

Inexistent; not existing. [Obs.] Gudworth.

Not expectant. C. Bronté.

permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state. "Frail inhabitants of earth." Cowper. In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people. Abp. Abbot.

g; urgent; importunate; earnest. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer. Rom. xii. 12. I am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation. Carlyle.

Quality of being instantaneous. Shenstone.

Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to be instantaneous. His reason saw With instantaneous view, the truth of things. Thomson.

Immediately; instantly; at once; as, he left instanter.

With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. "They besought him instantly." Luke vii. 4.

Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." [R.] Shak.

Unsubstantiality; unreality. [R.]

validating. The states elected Harry, Duke of Anjou, for their king, with this clause irritant; that, if he did violate any part of his oath, the people should owe him no allegiance. Hayward.

Suckling; giving suck.

Lying hid; concealed; latent. [R.]

A merchant. [Obs.] Shak.

A foreign trader. [Obs.] Shak.

A salt of metantimonic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3).