Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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. Shaw's Zool.

IN-CON-VERT-I-BIL'I-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-VERT'I-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 convincible.]

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

IN-CON-VIN'CIBLY, adv.

In a manner not admitting of conviction.

IN-CO'NY, a.

or n. [Qu. in and con, to know.] Unlearned; artless; an accomplished person, in contempt. [Ill.] Shak.

IN-COR'PO-RAL, a. [in and corporal.]

Not consisting of matter or body; immaterial. [Incorporeal is generally used.] Ralegh.

IN-COR-PO-RAL'I-TY, n.

The quality of not consisting of matter; immateriality.

IN-COR'PO-RAL-LY, adv.

Without matter or a body; immaterially.

IN-COR'PO-RATE, a. [in and corporate.]

1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body. [Little used.]
2. Mixed; united in one body; associated. Bacon. Shak.

IN-COR'PO-RATE, v.i.

To unite so as to make a part of another body; to be mixed or blended; to grow into, &c.; usually followed by with. Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate with oil. Bacon.

IN-COR'PO-RATE, v.t. [Fr. incorporer; Sp. incorporar; It. incorporare; L. incorporo; in and corpus, a body.]

1. In pharmacy, to mix different ingredients in one mass or body; to reduce dry substances to the consistence of paste by the admixture of a fluid, as in making pills, &c. Encyc.
2. To mix and embody one substance in another; as, to incorporate copper with silver.
3. To unite; to blend; to work into another mass or body; as, to incorporate plagiarisms into one's own composition.
4. To unite; to associate in another government or empire. The Romans incorporated conquered countries into their government. Addison.
5. To embody; to give a material form to. The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. Stillingfleet.
6. To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute a body, composed of one or more individuals, with the quality of perpetual existence or succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation; as, to incorporate the inhabitants of a city, town or parish; to incorporate the proprietors of a bridge, the stockholders of a bank, of an insurance company, &c. New Haven was incorporated in January, I784; Hartford, in May, 1784. Stat. of Connecticut.

IN-COR'PO-RA-TED, pp.

Mixed or united in one body; associated in the same political body; united in a legal body.

IN-COR'PO-RATING, ppr.

Mixing or uniting in one body or mass; associating in the same political body; forming legal body.

IN-COR-PO-RA'TION, n.

1. The act of incorporating.
2. Union of different ingredients in one mass.
3. Association in the same political body; as, the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic.
4. Formation of a legal or political body by the union of individuals, constituting an artificial person. Blackstone.

IN-COR-PO'RE-AL, a. [Fr. incorporel; L. incorporalis, incorporeus.]

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; immaterial. Spirits are deemed incorporeal substances.

IN-COR-PO'RE-AL-LY, adv.

Without body; immaterially. Bacon.

IN-COR-PO-RE'I-TY, n.

The quality of being not material; immateriality.

IN-CORPSE', v.t. [incorps'.]

To incorporate. [Barbarous.] Shak.

IN-COR-RECT', a. [in and correct.]

1. Not correct; not exact; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope.
2. Not according to truth; inaccurate; as, an incorrect statement, narration or calculation.
3. Not according to law or morality.

IN-COR-REC'TION, n.

Want of correction. Arnway.