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d or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. "Incorrigible fools." Dryden.

t that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. Bacon. A fantastical incredulous fool. Bp. Wilkins.

Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish. To view attention as a special act of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept. Sir W. Hamilton.

Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness.

Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly. None of them are made foolishly or ineptly. Dr. H. More.

To make foolish; to affect with folly; to weaken the intellectual powers of, or to deprive of sound judgment. The judgment of God will be very visible in infatuating a people . . . ripe and prepared for destruction. Clarendon.

Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation.

Simple; artless; foolish. Shak.

h earnest inquisition. Latimer. Let not search and inquisition quail To bring again these foolish runaways. Shak.

Without reason; madly; foolishly.

Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

Wanting wisdom; stupid; foolish. [R.] Clarendon. -- n.

Not according to reason; absurd; foolish. It seemed utterly irrational any longer to maintain it. I. Taylor.

pertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic. "Jack fool." Chaucer. Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack. Shak.

To make ridiculous and contemptible. [Obs.] I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me. Shak.

A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow.

llions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns.

of crafty knaves." Shak. In defiance of demonstration, knaves will continue to proselyte fools. Ames.

ghter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride. No wit to flatter left of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. Pope. -- To laugh in the sleeve, to laugh secretly, or so as not to be observed, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at.…

r for writing letters on; especially, a size of paper intermediate between note paper and foolscap. See Paper. -- Letter punch, a steel punch with a letter engraved on the end, used in making the matrices for type. -- Letters of administration (Law), the instrument by which an administrator or administratrix is autho…