Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-COMMO-DA-TING, ppr.

Incommoding.

IN-COM-MO-DATION, a.

State of being incommodated.

IN-COM-MODE, v.i. [L. incommoda; in and commodo, ca and modus.]

To give inconvenience to; to give trouble to; to disturb molest in the quiet enjoyment of something, or in the faed ity of acquisition. It denotes less than annoy, vex or harm are incommoded by want of room to sit at ease. Visit of strangers at unseasonable hours, incommode a family Often we are incommoded by a fashionable dress.

IN-COM-MOD-ED, pp.

Put to inconvenience; molested.

IN-COM-MOD-ING, ppr.

Subjecting to trouble or inconven lance.

IN-COM-MO'DI-OUS, a. [L. incommodus.]

Inconvenient; not affording ease or advantage; unsuitable; giving trouble without much injury. A seat in church, or the site of a house may be incommodious.

IN-COM-MO'DI-OUS-LY, adv.

In a manner to create inconvenience; inconveniently; unsuitably.

IN-COM-MO'DI-OUS-NESS,

It. Inconvenience; unsuitableness.

IN-COM-MOD'I-TY, n. [Fr, iincommoded; L. incommoditas.]

Inconvenience; trouble. [Now little used.] Bacon.

IN-COM-MU-NI-CA-BILI-TY, or IN-COM-MU'NI-CA-BLE-NESS, n. [from incommunicable.]

The quality of not being communicable, or capable of being imparted to another.

IN-COM-MU'NI-CA-BLE, a. [in and ccommunicable.]

1. That can not be communicated or imparted to others.
2. That can not or may not be communicated, told or revealed to others. South.

IN-COM-MU'NI-CA-BLY, adv.

In a manner not to be imparted or communicated. Hakewill.

IN-COM-MUN'I-CA-TED, a.

Not imparted.

IN-COM-MU'NI-CA-TING, a.

Having no communion or intercourse with each other; as, an administration in incommunicating hands. Hale.

IN-COM-MU'NI-CA-TIVE, a.

1. Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation.
2. Not disposed to hold communion, fellowship or intercourse with. The Chinese — an incommunicative nation. Buchanan.

IN-COM-MU'NI-CA-TIVE-LY, adv.

Not communicatively.

IN-COM-MU-TA-BIL'I-TY, or IN-COM-MUT-A-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality of being incommutable

IN-COM-MUT-A-BLE, a. [in and commutable.]

Not to be exchanged or commuted with another.

IN-COM-MUT-A-BLY, adv.

Without reciprocal change. Relig. Appeal.

IN-COMPA-RA-BLE, a. [in and comparable.]

That admits of no comparison with others; usually in a good sense, but it may be properly used in a bad sense. When we say, an incomparable man, we mean a man of good qualities, or of some excellence that raises him above comparison or equality with others. So we say, incomparable excellence, virtue, wit, &c. But incomparable baseness or malignity may be used with propriety.

IN-COMPA-RA-BLE-NESS, n.

Excellence beyond comparison.

IN-COMPA-RA-BLY, adv.

Beyond comparison; without competition. Newton was incomparably the greatest philosopher the English nation had produced.

IN-COM-PAR-ED, a.

Not matched; peerless. Spenser.

IN-COM-PAS'SIONATE, a. [in and compassionate.]

Void of compassion or pity; destitute of tenderness. Johnson.

IN-COM-PASSION-ATE-LY, adv.

Without pity or tenderness.