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The specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. It is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In…

Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.

Between antæ; -- said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antæ, forming the angles of the building. See Anta.

See Commendam, and Partnership in Commendam, under Partnership.

In being; actually existing; -- distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be.

In the place; in the proper or natural place.

In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or come to pass; -- contradistinguished from in esse.

Of any right (called right, or jus, in rem) of such a nature as to be available over its subject without reference to one person more than another, or, as generally expressed, a right competent, or available, against all persons. Rights in rem include not alone rights over physical property, but all rights available ag…

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.

In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.

A prefix from Eng. prep. in, also from Lat. prep. in, meaning in, into, on, among; as, inbred, inborn, inroad; incline, inject, intrude. In words from the Latin, in- regularly becomes il- before l, ir- before r, and im- before a labial; as, illusion, irruption, imblue, immigrate, impart. In- is sometimes used with an s…

An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike.

The act of going in; entrance.

The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity. It is not from an inability to discover what they ought to do, that men err in practice. Blair.

See Enable.

See Enablement. [Obs.]

Want of abstinence; indulgence. [Obs.] "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.

Not abstracted.

Without abuse.