1. The quality of being indissoluble, or not capable of being dissolved, melted or liquefied. NWAD INDISSOLUBILITY.2
2. The quality of being incapable of a breach; perpetuity of union, obligation or binding force. NWAD INDISSOLUBILITY.3
1. Not capable of being dissolved, melted or liquefied, as by heat or water. Few substances are absolutely indissoluble by heat; many are indissoluble in water. NWAD INDISSOLUBLE.2
2. That cannot be broken or rightfully violated; perpetually binding or obligatory; as an indissoluble league or covenant. The marriage covenant is indissoluble, except in certain specified cases. NWAD INDISSOLUBLE.3
3. Not to be broken; firm; stable; as indissoluble friendship; indissoluble bands of love. NWAD INDISSOLUBLE.4
On they move NWAD INDISSOLUBLY.2
Indissolubly firm. NWAD INDISSOLUBLY.3
1. That cannot be dissolved; not capable of being melted or liquefied. NWAD INDISSOLVABLE.2
2. Indissoluble; that cannot be broken; perpetually firm and binding; as an indissolvable bond of union. NWAD INDISSOLVABLE.3
3. Not capable of separation into parts by natural process. NWAD INDISSOLVABLE.4
1. Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself. The parts of a substance are indistinct, when they are so blended that the eye cannot separate them, or perceive them as separate. Sounds are indistinct, when the ear cannot separate them. Hence, NWAD INDISTINCT.2
2. Obscure; not clear; confused; as indistinct ideas or notions. NWAD INDISTINCT.3
3. Imperfect; faint; not presenting clear and well defined images; as indistinct vision; an indistinct view. NWAD INDISTINCT.4
4. Not exactly discerning. [Unusual.] NWAD INDISTINCT.5
The indistinction of many of the same name - hath made some doubt. NWAD INDISTINCTION.2
1. Indiscrimination; want of distinction. NWAD INDISTINCTION.3
2. Equality of condition or rank. NWAD INDISTINCTION.4
1. Confusedly; not clearly; obscurely; as when ideas are indistinctly comprehended. NWAD INDISTINCTLY.2
2. Not definitely; not with precise limits; as when the border of a thing is indistinctly marked. NWAD INDISTINCTLY.3
1. Obscurity; faintness; as the indistinctness of vision. NWAD INDISTINCTNESS.2
That cannot be distinguished or separated; undistinguishable. NWAD INDISTINGUISHABLE.2
Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; tranquillity. NWAD INDISTURBANCE.2
1. To compose; to write; to commit to words in writing. NWAD INDITE.2
Hear how learn’d Greece her useful rules indites. NWAD INDITE.3
2. To direct or dictate what is to be uttered or written. The late President Dwight indited his sermons. NWAD INDITE.4
My heart is inditing a good matter. Psalm 45:1. NWAD INDITE.5
[This is from the same original as indict. The different applications of the word have induced authors to express each in a different orthography, but without good reason.] NWAD INDITE.7
1. Not divided, or not to be divided; single; one; as an individual man or city. NWAD INDIVIDUAL.2
--Under his great vicegerent reign abide NWAD INDIVIDUAL.3
United, as one individual soul. NWAD INDIVIDUAL.4
2. Pertaining to one only; as individual labor or exertions. NWAD INDIVIDUAL.5
1. A single animal or thing of any kind. But this word, as a noun, is rarely applied except to human beings. NWAD INDIVIDUAL.7
1. With separate or distinct existence. NWAD INDIVIDUALLY.2
How should that subsist solitarily by itself, which hath no substance, but individually the very same whereby others subsist with it? NWAD INDIVIDUALLY.3
2. Inseparably; incommunicably. NWAD INDIVIDUALLY.4
Omniscience--an attribute individually proper to the Godhead. NWAD INDIVIDUALLY.5
Life is individuated into infinite numbers, that have their distinct sense and pleasure. NWAD INDIVIDUATE.3
1. The act of separating into individuals by analysis. NWAD INDIVIDUATION.2
The state or property of being indivisible. NWAD INDIVISIBILITY.2
That cannot be divided, separated or broken; not separable into parts. Perhaps the particles of matter, however small, cannot be considered as indivisible. The mind or soul must be indivisible. A mathematical point is indivisible. NWAD INDIVISIBLE.2
1. Unteachable; not capable of being taught, or not easily instructed; dull in intellect. NWAD INDOCIBLE.2
2. Intractable, as a beast. NWAD INDOCIBLE.3
1. Intractableness, as of a beast. NWAD INDOCILITY.2
To teach; to instruct in rudiments or principles. NWAD INDOCTRINATE.2
He took much delight in indoctrinating his young unexperienced favorite. NWAD INDOCTRINATE.3
1. Literally, freedom from pain. NWAD INDOLENCE.2
2. Habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; inaction or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil. Indolence, like laziness, implies a constitutional or habitual love of ease; idleness does not. NWAD INDOLENCE.3
1. Inactive; idle; as an indolent life. NWAD INDOLENT.2
2. Free from pain; as an indolent tumor. NWAD INDOLENT.3
Calm and serene you indolently sit. NWAD INDOLENTLY.2
1. To write on the back of a paper or written instrument; as, to indorse a note or bill of exchange; to indorse a receipt or assignment on a bill or note. Hence, NWAD INDORSE.2
2. To assign by writing an order on the back of a note or bill; to assign or transfer by indorsement. The bill was indorsed to the bank. NWAD INDORSE.3
To indorse in blank, to write a name only on a note or bill, leaving a blank to be filled by the indorsee. NWAD INDORSE.4
1. That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for payment, the return of an officer, or the verdict of a grand jury. NWAD INDORSEMENT.2
An opening from the sea into the land; an inlet. NWAD INDRAUGHT.2
To overwhelm with water; to drown; to drench. NWAD INDRENCH.2
1. Not dubious or doubtful; certain. NWAD INDUBIOUS.2
2. Not doubting; unsuspecting; as indubious confidence. NWAD INDUBIOUS.3
Not questioned; evident; certain. [Not used.] NWAD INDUBITATE.2
1. To lead, as by persuasion or argument; to prevail on; to incite; to influence by motives. The emperor could not be induced to take part in the contest. NWAD INDUCE.2
2. To produce by influence. NWAD INDUCE.3
As this belief is absolutely necessary for all mankind, the evidence for inducing it must be of that nature as to accommodate itself to all species of men. NWAD INDUCE.4
3. To produce; to bring on; to cause; as a fever induced by extreme fatigue. The revolution in France has induced a change of opinions and of property. NWAD INDUCE.5
4. To introduce; to bring into view. NWAD INDUCE.6
The poet may be seen inducing his personages in the first Iliad. NWAD INDUCE.7
5. To offer by way of induction or inference. [Not used.] NWAD INDUCE.8
1. That may be caused. NWAD INDUCIBLE.2
Literally, to being in or introduce. Hence, appropriately, NWAD INDUCT.2
1. To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies. Clerks or parsons are inducted by a mandate from the bishop to the archdeacon, who usually issued a precept to other clergymen to perform the duty. In the United States, certain civil officers and presidents of colleges, are inducted into office with appropriate ceremonies. NWAD INDUCT.3
1. Literally, a bringing in; introduction; entrance. Hence, NWAD INDUCTION.2
2. In logic and rhetoric, the act of drawing a consequence from two or more propositions, which are called premises. NWAD INDUCTION.3
3. The method of reasoning from particulars to generals, or the inferring of one general proposition from several particular ones. NWAD INDUCTION.4
4. The conclusion or inference drawn from premises or from propositions which are admitted to be true, either in fact, or for the sake of argument. NWAD INDUCTION.5
5. The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or giving possession of an ecclesiastical living; or the introduction of a person into an office by the usual forms and ceremonies. Induction is applied to the introduction of officers, only when certain oaths are to be administered or other formalities are to be observed, which are intended to confer authority or give dignity to the transaction. In Great Britain, induction is used for giving possession of ecclesiastical offices. In the United States, it is applied to the formal introduction of civil officers, and the higher officers of colleges. NWAD INDUCTION.6
A brutish vice, NWAD INDUCTIVE.2
Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. NWAD INDUCTIVE.3
1. Tending to induce or cause. NWAD INDUCTIVE.4
They may be inductive of credibility. [Unusual.] NWAD INDUCTIVE.5
2. Leading to inferences; proceeding by induction; employed in drawing conclusions from promises; as inductive reasoning. NWAD INDUCTIVE.6
1. To put on something; to invest; to clothe; as, to indue matter with forms, or man with intelligence. NWAD INDUE.2
2. To furnish; to supply with; to endow. NWAD INDUE.3
1. To permit to be or to continue; to suffer; not to restrain or oppose; as, to indulge sloth; to indulge the passions; to indulge pride, selfishness or inclinations. NWAD INDULGE.2
2. To gratify, negatively; not to check or restrain the will, appetite or desire; as, to indulge children in amusements. NWAD INDULGE.3
3. To gratify, positively; to grant something not of right, but as a favor; to grant in compliance with wishes or desire. NWAD INDULGE.4
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light NWAD INDULGE.5
Indulge, dread Chaos and eternal Night! NWAD INDULGE.6
4. In general, to gratify; to favor; to humor; to yield to the wishes of; to withhold restraint from. NWAD INDULGE.7
It is remarked by Johnson, that if the matter of indulgence is a single thing, it has with before it; if it is a habit, it has in. He indulged himself with a glass of wine; he indulges himself in sloth or intemperance. NWAD INDULGE.8
Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices, than to practice laborious virtues. NWAD INDULGE.10
1. To yield; to comply; to be favorable. [Little used.] NWAD INDULGE.11
1. Gratified; yielded to; humored in wishes or desires; as a child indulged by his parents. NWAD INDULGED.2
2. Granted. NWAD INDULGED.3
1. Gratification; as the indulgence of lust or of appetite. NWAD INDULGENCE.2
2. Favor granted; liberality; gratification. NWAD INDULGENCE.3
If all these gracious indulgencies are without effect on us, we must perish in our folly. NWAD INDULGENCE.4
3. In the Romish church, remission of the punishment due to sins, granted by the pope or church, and supposed to save the sinner from purgatory; absolution from the censures of the church and from all transgressions. NWAD INDULGENCE.5
1. Mild, favorable; not severe; as the indulgent censure of posterity. NWAD INDULGENT.2
2. Gratifying; favoring; with of. NWAD INDULGENT.3
The feeble old, indulgent of their ease. NWAD INDULGENT.4
1. Mildly; favorably; not severely. NWAD INDULGENTLY.2
1. In the church of Rome, the power of presenting to benefices, granted to certain persons, as to kings and cardinals. NWAD INDULT.2
2. In Spain, a duty, tax or custom, paid to the king for all goods imported from the West Indies in the galleons. NWAD INDULT.3
To grow hard; to harden or become hard. Clay indurates by drying, and by extreme heat. NWAD INDURATE.2
1. To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate; as, to indurate the heart. NWAD INDURATE.4
1. Hardness of heart; obduracy. NWAD INDURATION.2
1. Diligent in business or study; constantly, regularly or habitually occupied in business; assiduous; opposed to slothful and idle. NWAD INDUSTRIOUS.2
Frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly to the established government. NWAD INDUSTRIOUS.3
2. Diligent in a particular pursuit, or to a particular end; opposed to remiss or slack; as industrious to accomplish a journey, or to reconcile contending parties. NWAD INDUSTRIOUS.4
3. Given to industry; characterized by diligence; as an industrious life. NWAD INDUSTRIOUS.5
4. Careful; assiduous; as the industrious application of knowing men. NWAD INDUSTRIOUS.6
1. Diligently; assiduously; with care; applied to a particular purpose. He attempted industriously to make peace. He industriously concealed his name. NWAD INDUSTRIOUSLY.2
1. To make drunk; to intoxicate. NWAD INEBRIATE.2
2. To disorder the senses; to stupefy, or to make furious or frantic; to produce effects like those of liquor, which are various in different constitutions. NWAD INEBRIATE.3
Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety terminated by much pale urine, profuse sweats, etc. NWAD INEBRIATE.6