Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TOR'SION, n. [L. intorqueo, intorsum, to twist.]

A winding, bending or twisting. In botany, the bending or twining of any part of a plant toward one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical. Martyn.

IN-TORT', v.t. [L. intortus, from intorqueo, to twist.]

To twist; to wreath; to wind; to wring. Pope.

IN-TORT'ED, pp.

Twisted; made winding. Arbuthnot. Pope.

IN-TORT'ING, ppr.

Winding; twisting.

IN-TOTO, adv. [In toto; L.]

Wholly; entirely.

IN-TOTO, adv. [In toto; L.]

In the whole.

IN-TOTO, adv. [In toto; L.]

In the whole.

IN-TOTO, adv. [In toto; L.]

In the whole.

IN-TOTO, adv. [In toto; L.]

In the whole.

IN-TOTO, adv. [In toto; L.]

In the whole.

IN-TOTO, adv. [In toto; L.]

In the whole.

IN-TOX'I-CATE, a.

Inebriated. More.

IN-TOX'I-CATE, v.t. [in and L. toxicum, which, Pliny informs us, is from taxa, a species of tree, in Greek, σμιλαξ. Lib. xvi, 10. Toxicum is from the Greek τοξον, a bow or an arrow; the barbarians used to poison their arrows, and hence toxicum in Latin came to signify poison.]

1. To inebriate; to make drunk; as with spirituous liquor. As with new wine intoxicated both / They swim in mirth. Milton.
2. To excite the spirits to a kind of delirium; to elate to enthusiasm, frenzy or madness. Success may sometimes intoxicate a man of sobriety. An enthusiast may be intoxicated with zeal.

IN-TOX-I-CA-TED, pp.

Inebriated; made drunk; excited to frenzy.

IN-TOX'I-CA-TED-NESS, n.

State of intoxication.

IN-TOX'I-CA-TING, ppr.

1. Inebriating; elating to excess or frenzy.
2. adj. Having qualities that produce inebriation; as, intoxicating liquors.

IN-TOX-I-CA'TION, n.

Inebriation; inebriety; drunkenness; the act of making drunk. South. Technically, intoxication is made up of extraordinary exhilaration gradually increasing to delirium, with imperfect articulation and inability to regulate voluntary motion generally, which finally passes into unconsciousness and coma.

IN-TRACT'A-BLE, a. [L. intractabilis; in and tractabilis, tracto, to handle, manage, govern; Fr. intraitable; It. intrattabile.]

1. Not to be governed or managed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable temper.
2. Not to be taught; indocile.

IN-TRACT'A-BLE-NESS, or IN-TRACT'A-BIL'I-TY, n.

1. The quality of being ungovernable; obstinacy; perverseness. Porteus.
2. Indocility.

IN-TRACT'A-BLY, adv.

In a perverse, stubborn manner.

IN-TRA-FO-LI-A'CEOUS, a. [L. intra and folium, a leaf.]

In botany, growing on the inside of a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules. Lee. Martyn.

IN-TRANCE, v. [See ENTRANCE.]

IN-TRAN-QUIL'LI-TY, n. [in and tranquility.]

Unquietness; inquietude; want of rest. Temple.

IN-TRAN'SIENT, a.

Not transient; not passing suddenly away. Killingbeck.

IN-TRANS'I-TIVE, a. [L. intransitivus; in and transo, to pass over.]

In grammar, an intransitive verb is one which expresses an action or state that is limited to the agent, or in other words, an action that does not pass over to, or operate upon an object; as, I walk; I run; I sleep.