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The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

Act of impugning; opposition; attack. [Obs.] A perpetual impugnation and self-conflict. Bp. Hall.

eduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. Jeffrey. The very incarnation of selfishness. F. W. Robertson.

The act of linking together; enchaining. [R.] Goldsmith.

The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head.

Want of coördination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action. Incoördination of muscular movement (Physiol.), irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them.

The act of incriminating; crimination.

Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind. Jer. Taylor.

hy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious in the conduct of another. Cogan. When Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, h…

Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality. Jefferson.

The act of indoctrinating, or the condition of being indoctrinated; instruction in the rudiments and principles of any science or system of belief; information. Sir T. Browne.

Cheat; deception. [Obs.] Sir T. Brown.

Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. De Quincey. That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen. Featley. Happiness with an echo or ingemination. Holdsworth.

eviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy. [Obs.] South. Every inordination of religion that is not in defect, is properly called superstition. Jer. Taylor.

A defiling; pollution; stain. [Obs.] Bacon.

A sowing. [Obs.]

The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.

Occurring between or among, or common to, different denominations; as, interdenominational fellowship or belief.

The state of being interlaminated.