Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: IN-EX'TRI-CA-BLE – INF'ANT-INE
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IN-EX'TRI-CA-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. inextricabilis. See Extricate.]
- Not to be disentangled; not to be freed from intricacy or perplexity; as, an inextricable maze or difficulty. Sherlock.
- Not to be untied; as, an inextricable knot.
The state of being inextricable. Donne.
IN-EX'TRI-CA-BLY, adv.
To a degree of perplexity not to be disentangled. Pope.
IN-EYE', v.t.
To inoculate, as a tree or a bud. Philips.
IN-EY'ED, pp.
Inoculated as a tree or bud.
IN-FAB'RI-CA-TED, a.
Unfabricated; unwrought. [Not used.]
IN-FAL-LI-BIL'I-TY, or IN-FAL'LI-BLE-NESS, n. [from infallible.]
The quality of being incapable of error or mistake; entire exemption from liability to error; inerrability. No human being can justly lay claim to infallibility. This is an attribute of God only.
IN-FAL'LI-BLE, a. [Fr. infaillible; in and faillir, L. fallo.]
- Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; applied to persons. No man is infallible; to be infallible is the prerogative of God only.
- Not liable to fail, or to deceive confidence; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success. To whom he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts i.
IN-FAL'LI-BLY, adv.
- Without a possibility of erring or mistaking. Smalridge.
- Certainly; without a possibility of failure. Our Savior has directed us to conduct that will infallibly render us happy.
IN-FAME', v.t.
To defame. [Not used.] Bacon.
IN'FA-MIZE, v.t.
To make infamous. [Not well authorized.]
IN'FA-MOUS, a. [Fr. infame; L. infamis; infamo, to defame; in and fama, fame.]
- Of ill report, emphatically; having a reputation of the worst kind; publicly branded with odium for vice or guilt; base; scandalous; notoriously vile; used of persons; as an infamous liar; an infamous rake or gambler.
- Odious; detestable; held in abhorrence; that renders a person infamous; as, an infamous vice.
- Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime. An infamous person can not be a witness.
IN'FA-MOUS-LY, adv.
- In a manner or degree to render infamous; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully.
- With open reproach.
IN'FA-MOUS-NESS, or IN'FA-MY, n. [Fr. infamie; L. infamia; in and fama, report.]
- Total loss of reputation; public disgrace. Avoid the crimes and vices which expose men to infamy.
- Qualities which are detested and despised; qualities notoriously bad and scandalous; as, the infamy of an action.
- In law, that loss of character or public disgrace which a convict incurs, and by which a person is rendered incapable of being a witness or juror. Encyc.
IN'FAN-CY, n. [L. infantia. See Infant.]
- The first part of life, beginning at the birth. In common usage, infancy extends not beyond the first year or two of life, but there is not a defined limit where infancy ends, and childhood begins.
- In law, infancy extends to the age of twenty-one years.
- The first age of any thing; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of the Roman republic; the infancy of a college or of a charitable society; the infancy of agriculture, of manufactures, or of commerce.
IN-FAND'OUS, a. [L. infandus.]
Too odious to be expressed. [Not in use.] Howell.
IN-FANG'THEF, n. [Sax. in, fangan, to take, and theof, thief.]
In English law, the privilege granted to lords to judge thieves taken on their manors or within their franchises. Cowel.
IN'FANT, a.
- Pertaining to infancy or the first period of life.
- Young; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.
IN'FANT, a. [Fr. enfant; L. infans; in and fans, speaking, fari, to speak.]
- A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe. In common usage, a child ceases to be called an infant within the first or second year, but at no definite period. In some cases, authors indulge a greater latitude, and extend the term to include children of several years of age.
- In law, a person under the age of twenty-one years, who is incapable of making valid contracts.
IN-FANT'A, n.
In Spain and Portugal, any princess of the royal blood, except the eldest daughter when heiress apparent.
IN-FANT'E, n.
In Spain and Portugal, any son of the king, except the eldest or heir apparent.
IN'FANT-GAUD, n.
A toy for children.
IN-FANT'I-CIDE, n. [Low L. infanticidium; infans, an infant, and cædo, to kill.]
- The intentional killing of an infant.
- The slaughter of infants by Herod. Matth. ii.
- A slayer of infants.
IN'FANT-ILE, a. [L. infantilis.]
Pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; pertaining to the first period of life.
INF'ANT-INE, a.
Pertaining to infants or to young children.