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icit confidence; implicit obedience. Back again to implicit faith I fall. Donne. Implicit function. (Math.) See under Function.

in civil acts; to disqualify. It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property. Milman.

l body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc.

more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function (Math.), a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished.

upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.

A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.

n of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs.

The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.

The office or function of an internuncio. Richardson.

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

An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.

ice, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. Cowper.

An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace. [Written also eirenarch.]

Isorropic line (in a diagram) (Geom.), the locus of all the points for which a specified function has a constant value. Newcomb.

To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern. [Obs.] Make us a king to judge us. 1 Sam. viii. 5.

oving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

Systematized knowledge of the action and functions of the larynx; in pathology, the department which treats of the diseases of the larynx.

A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness. The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. Barrow.

or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms.

To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar. [Obs.]