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Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance. Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least can not sink. H. Brooke.…

Without bounds or limits; beyond or below assignable limits; as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity.

The state or quality of being infinite; infinity; greatness; immensity. Jer. Taylor.

Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small. Infinitesimal calculus, the different and the integral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given to variables as infinitesimal.

By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; in an infinitesimal degree.

Pertaining to the infinite mood. "Infinitival stems." Fitzed. Hall.

Unlimited; not bounded or restricted; undefined. Infinitive mood (Gram.), that form of the verb which merely names the action, and performs the office of a verbal noun. Some grammarians make two forms in English: (a) The simple form, as, speak, go, hear, before which to is commonly placed, as, to speak; to go; to hear.…

Infinite; perpetual, as a canon whose end leads back to the beginning. See Infinite, a., 5.

The quality or state of being infinite, or without limits; infiniteness.

Multipied an infinite number of times. [R.] Wollaston.

ce, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity. Sir T. More. There can not be more infinities than one; for one of them would limit the other. Sir W. Raleigh.

A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.

The state of being leafy.

Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.

A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.

A dish for keeping muffins hot.

water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.

Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene.

To refine too much.

Excessive refinement.