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ge or mental capacity; idiocy; foolishness. Worse than mere ignorance or idiotism. Shaftesbury. The running that adventure is the greatist idiotism. Hammond.

tion or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. The imagery of a melancholic fancy. Atterbury.

aced in lower stations of life are more usefull, as being imitable by great numbers. Atterbury.

unge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge. Deep immersed beneath its whirling wave. J Warton. More than a mile immersed within the wood. Dryden.

or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness. Too deep an immersion in the affairs of life. Atterbury.

Unpleasing; displeasing. [Obs.] Overbury.

methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury.

t; as, to improve in health. We take care to improve in our frugality and diligence. Atterbury.

guage, etc.; a foreign ingredient. Foul impurities reigned among the monkish clergy. Atterbury.

disposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury.

To bury in, or cast into, a ditch. Bp. Hall.

life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly. Atterbury.

rue, to draw in another as true. Locke. Such opportunities always infer obligations. Atterbury.

revelation . . . is sufficient to influence their faith and practice, if they attend. Attebury. The principle which influenced their obedience has lost its efficacy. Rogers.

To inter with funeral rites; to bury. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury.

To bury. [Obs.] Heywood.

o own; to enjoy as a possession. But the meek shall inherit the earth. Ps. xxxvii. 11. To bury so much gold under a tree, And never after to inherit it. Shak.

To inhume; to bury; to inter. Hedge.

The act of inhuming or burying; interment.