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The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.

Showing, or characterized by, hesitation. [He said] in his mild, hesitative way. R. D. Blackmore.

Hesitating. R. North.

A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.

A member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.

A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415.

A hydrous carbonate of magnesia occurring in white, early, amorphous masses.

A twenty-four-sided solid; a tetragonal trisoctahedron or trapezohedron.

xtension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness. Lost in the wilds of vast immensity. Blackmore. The immensity of the material system. I. Taylor.

The state of being impecunious. Thackeray. Sir W. Scott.

The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence.

The state or quality of being imporous; want of porosity; compactness. "The . . . imporosity betwixt the tangible parts." Bacon.

imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. "From imposition of strict laws." Milton. Made more solemn by the imposition of hands. Hammond.

In its natural position or place; -- said of a rock or fossil, when found in the situation in which it was originally formed or deposited.

In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu.

Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent. -- In*ap"po*site*ly, adv.

Not composite; uncompounded; simple. Incomposite numbers. See Prime numbers, under Prime.

Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. Sir H. Wotton.

The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury.

A situation or position beneath. Kane.