Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-COM-PASSION-ATE-NESS, n.

Want of pity. Granger.

IN-COM-PAT-I-BIL'I-TY, n. [from incompatible.]

1. Inconsistency; that quality or state of a thing which renders it impossible that it should subsist or be consistent with, something else. There is a permanent incompatibility between truth and falsehood.
2. Irreconcilable disagreement. During the revolution in France, incompatibility of temper was deemed a sufficient cause for divorcing man and wife.

IN-COM-PAT'I-BLE, a. [Fr. from the L. in and compete, to suit, to be proper or convenient; con and peto, to press to. ward, to seek, or press on. It was formerly incompetible.]

1. Inconsistent; that can not subsist with something else. Thus, truth and falsehood are essentially incompatible, as are virtue and vice. A degree of cold that congeals water is incompatible with vegetation. Dissipation is incompatible with health, reputation and virtue.
2. Irreconcilably different or disagreeing; incongruous; as, incompatible tempers.
3. Legally or constitutionally inconsistent; that can not be united in the same person, without violating the law or constitution. By our constitution, the offices of a legislator and of a judge are incompatible, as they can not be held at the same time by the same person.

IN-COM-PATI-BLY, adv.

Inconsistently; incongruously.

IN-COM-PENS'A-BLE, a.

That can not be recompensed.

IN-COM'PE-TENCE, or IN-COM'PE-TEN-CY, n. [Fr. incompetence, from incompetent.]

1. Inability; want of sufficient intellectual power or talents; as, the incompeteney of infants or idiots.
2. Want of natural adequate strength of body or of suitable faculties; as, the incompetcncy of the eyes to discern the motions of the heavenly bodies.
3. Want of legal or constitutional qualifications; as, the incompetency of a witness.
4. Want of adequate means.
5. Insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of testimony.

IN-COM'PE-TENT, a. [Fr. from L. in and competens, competo. See Incompatible.]

1. Wanting adequate powers of mind or suitable faculties; as, an incompetent judge. Infancy, derangement, want of learning or dotage may render a person incompetent to fill an office or to transact business.
2. Wanting due strength or suitable faculties; unable.
3. Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications. A person convicted of a crime, is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity.
4. Destitute of means; unable.
5. Inadequate; insufficient; as, incompetent testimony.
6. Unfit; improper; legally unavailable. It is incompetent for the defendant to snake this defense. Mass. Rep.

IN-COM'PE-TENT-LY, adv.

Insufficiently; inadequately; not suitably.

IN-COM-PLETE, a.

In botany, lacking calyx or corolla, or both.

IN-COM-PLETE', a. [in and complete.]

1. Not finished. The building is incomplete.
2. Imperfect; defective.

IN-COM-PLETE'LY, adv.

Imperfectly.

IN-COM-PLETE-NESS, n.

An unfinished state; imperfectness; defectiveness.

IN-COM-PLEX', a. [in and complex.]

Not complex; uncompounded; simple.

IN-COM-PLIA-BLE, a.

Not compliable.

IN-COM-PLI'ANCE, n. [in and compliance.]

1. Defect of compliance; refusal to comply with solicitations.
2. Untractableness; unyielding temper or constitution. Self-conceit produces peevishness and incompliance of humor in things lawful and indifferent. Tillatson.

IN-COM-PLIANT-LY, adv.

Not compliantly.

IN-COM-POS-ED, a. [in and composed.]

Disordered; disturbed. [But this word is little used. Instead of it we use discomposed.]

IN-COMPOS-ITE, a.

ineoatt [in and composite.] Uncompounded; simple.

IN-COM-POS-SI-BILI-TY, n. [in and composale.]

The quality of not being possible but by the negation or destruction of something; inconsistency with something. [Little used.] More. Hale.

IN-COM-POS'SI-BLE, a. [in, con, and possible.]

Not possible to be or subsist with something else. [This and the preceding word are little sited, and can hardly be considered as legitimate English words.]

IN-COM-PRE-HENS-I-BILI-TY, n. [See the next word.]

The quality of being incomprehensible, or beyond the reach of human intellect; inconceivableness. Campbell.

IN-COM-PRE-HENS'I-BLE, a. [Fr. See Comprehend.]

1. That can not be comprehended or understood; that is beyond the reach of human intellect; inconceivable. The nature of spiritual being is incomprehensible to us, or by us.
2. Not to he contained. [Little used.] Hooker.

IN-COM-PRE-HENS'I-BLE-NESS, n.

Incomprehensibility, which see.

IN-COM-PRE-HENS'I-BLY, adv.

In a manner which the human mind can not comprehend or understand; inconceivably. Locke.

IN-COM-PRE-HEN'SION, n.

Want of comprehension or understanding. Bacon.