Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-CON-SUMP'TI-BLE, a. [L. in and consumptus.]

1. Not to be spent, wasted or destroyed by fire. [Not used.] Digby.
2. Not to be destroyed. [Not used.]

IN-CON-TAM'IN-ATE, a.

Not contaminated. Moore.

IN-CON-TAM'IN-ATE-NESS, n.

Uncorrupted state.

IN-CON-TESTA-BLY, adv.

In a manner to preclude debate; indisputably; incontrovertibly; indobitably. Reid.

IN-CON-TIG'U-OUS, a. [in and contiguous.]

Not contiguous; not adjoining; not touching; separate. Boyle.

IN-CON-TIG'U-OUS-LY, adv.

Not contiguously; separately.

IN-CON'TIN-ENCE, or IN-CON'TIN-EN-CY, n. [L. incontinentia; Fr. incontinence. See Continence.]

1. Want of restraint of the passions or appetites; free or uncontrolled indulgence of the passions or appetites, as of anger. Gillies' Aristotle.
2. Want of restraint of the sexual appetite; free or illegal indulgence of lust; lewdness; used of either sex, but appropriately of the male sex. Incontinence in men is the same as unchastity in women.
3. Among physicians, the inability of any of the animal organs to restrain discharges of their contents, so that the discharges are involuntary.

IN-CON'TIN-ENT, a. [L. incontinens.]

1. Not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging lust without restraint or in violation of law; unchaste; lewd.
2. Unable to restrain discharges. In the sense of immediate or immediately, obsolete.

IN-CON'TIN-ENT, n.

One who is unchaste. B. Jonson.

IN-CON'TIN-ENT-LY, adv.

1. Without due restraint of the passions or appetites; unchastely.
2. Immediately. [obs.] Pope.

IN-CON-TRACT'ED, a.

Not contracted; not shortened. Blackwall.

IN-CON-TROLL'A-BLE, a. [in and controllable.]

Not to be controlled; that can not be restrained or governed uncontrollable. Walsh.

IN-CON-TROLL'A-BLY, adv.

In a manner that admits of no control.

IN-CON-TRO-VERT'I-BLE, a. [in and controvertilde.]

disputable; too clear or certain to admit of dispute.

IN-CON-TRO-VERT'I-BLY, adv.

In a manner or to a degree that precludes debate or controversy.

IN-CON-VE'NI-ENCE, or IN-CON-VE'NIEN-CY, n. [L. incontwmiens; in and f convenio, contieniens;]

1. Unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpedience. They plead against the inconveniences not the unlawful of popish apparel. Hooker.
2. That which gives trouble or uneasiness; disadvantage; any thing that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success. Rain and bad roads are inconveniences to the traveler; want of utensils is a great inconvenience to a family; but the great inconvenience of human life is the want of money and the means of obtaining it.

IN-CON-VE'NI-ENT, a. [Fr. from the L. supra.]

1. Incommodious; unsuitable; disadvantageous; giving trouble or uneasiness; increasing the difficulty of progress or success; as, an inconvenient dress or garment; an inconvenient house; inconvenient customs; an inconvenient arrangement of business.
2. Unfit; unsuitable. Hooker.

IN-CON-VE'NI-ENT-LY, adv.

Unsuitably; incommodiously; in a manner to give trouble; unseasonably.

IN-CON-VERS'A-BLE, a. [in and conversable.]

Not inclined to free conversation; incommunicative; unsocial; reserved. More.

IN-CON'VERS-ANT, a.

Not conversant; not familiar; not versed. Show's Zeal.

IN-CON-VERT-I-BILI-TY, n. [from inconvertible.]

The quality of not being changeable or convertible into something else; as, the inconvertibility of bank notes or other currency into gold or silver. Walsh,

IN-CON-VERTI-BLE, a. [in and convertible.]

Not Convertible; that can not be transmuted or changed into something else. One metal is inconvertible into another. Bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh

IN-CON-VICT'ED-NESS, n.

State of being not convicted. [Bad.] More.

IN-CON-VIN'CIBLE, a. [in and convincddc.]

Not convincible; that can not be convinced; not capable of conviction.

IN-CON-VIN'CIBLY, adv.

In a manner not admitting of conviction.