Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-DE-SCRIB'A-BLE, a.

That can not be described.

IN-DE-SCRIP'TIVE, a.

Not descriptive or containing just description.

IN-DE-SERT', n. [s as z. in and desert.]

Want of merit or worth. Addison.

IN-DES'I-NENT, a. [L. in and desino, to cease; de and sino.]

Not ceasing; perpetual.

IN-DES'I-NENT-EY, adv.

Without cessation. Ray.

IN-DE-SIR'A-BLE, a.

Not desirable.

IN-DE-STRUCT-I-BIL'I-TY, n. [from indestructible.]

The quality of resisting decomposition, or of being incapable of destruction.

IN-DE-STRUCT'I-BLE, a. [in and destructible.]

That can not be destroyed; incapable of decomposition; as a material substance. Boyle.

IN-DE-STRUCT'I-BLY, adv.

In an indestructible manner.

IN-DE-TERM'IN-A-BLE, a. [in and determinable.]

1. That can not be determined, ascertained or fixed. Brown.
2. Not to be determined or ended.

IN-DE-TERM'IN-A-BLY, adv.

In an indeterminable manner.

IN-DE-TERM'IN-ATE, a. [in and determinate.]

1. Not determinate; not settled or fixed; not definite; uncertain; as, an indeterminate number of years.
2. Not certain; not precise.

IN-DE-TERM'IN-ATE-LY, adv.

1. Not in any settled manner; indefinitely; not with precise limits; as, a space indeterminately large.
2. Not with certainty or precision of signification; as, an idea indeterminately expressed.

IN-DE-TERM'IN-ATE-NESS, n.

Indefiniteness; want of certain limits; want of precision. Paley.

IN-DE-TERM-IN-A'TION, n. [in and determination.]

1. Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind.
2. Want of fixed or stated direction. Bramhall.

IN-DE-TERM'IN-ED, a. [in and determined.]

Undetermined; unsettled; unfixed.

IN-DE-VOTE', a.

Not devoted. Bentley.

IN-DE-VOT'ED, a.

Not devoted. Clarendon.

IN-DE-VO'TION, n. [Fr.; in and devotion.]

Want of devotion; absence of devout affections. Decay of Piety.

IN-DE-VOUT', a. [Fr. indevot.]

Not devout; not having devout affections. Ibm.

IN-DE-VOUT'LY, adv.

Without devotion.

IN'DEX, n. [plur. indexes; sometimes indices. L. connected with indico, to show; in and dico, Gr. δεικνυω.]

1. That which points out; that which shows or manifests. Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants. Arbuthnot.
2. The hand that points to any thing, as the hour of the day, the road to a place, &c. Bentley.
3. A table of the contents of a book. Watts. A table of references in an alphabetical order.
4. In anatomy, the fore finger, or pointing finger.
5. In arithmetic and algebra, that which shows to what power any quantity is involved; the exponent. Encyc.
6. The index of a globe, or the gnomon, is a little style fitted on the north pole, which, by turning with the globe, serves to point to certain divisions of the hour circle. Encyc.
7. In music, a direct, – which see. Index expurgatory, in Catholic countries, a catalogue of prohibited books.

IN'DEX, v.t.

To form an index or table of references; to particular subjects or parts of a book.

IN'DEX-ED, pp.

Furnished with an index.

IN'DEX-ER, n.

One who makes an index.