Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-FORM'A-TIVE, a.

Having power to animate. More.

IN-FORM'ED, pp.

Told; instructed; made acquainted.

IN-FORM'ER, n.

1. One who animates, informs or give intelligence.
2. One who communicates, or whose duty it is to communicate to a magistrate a knowledge of the violations of law, and bring the offenders to trial.

IN-FORM'I-DA-BLE, a. [in and formidable.]

Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. Foe not informidable. Milton.

IN-FORM'ING, ppr.

1. Giving notice or intelligence; telling.
2. Communicating facts by way of accusation. Informing officer, is an officer whose duty it is to inform against persons for breaches of law, as an attorney-general, a sheriff, constable, or grand juror. A common informer, is any person who informs against another.

IN-FORM'I-TY, n. [L. informis.]

Want of regular form; shapelessness. Brown.

IN-FORM'OUS, a. [Fr. informe; L. informis.]

Of no regular form or figure; shapeless. Brown. Wilford.

IN-FORO-CONSCIENTIAE, adv. [In foro conscientiæ; L.]

Before the tribunal of conscience.

IN-FOR'TUNATE, a. [L. infortunatus.]

Unlucky; unfortunate. [The latter is commonly used.]

IN-FOR'TU-NATE-LY, adv.

Unfortunately. [Not used.]

IN-FOR'TUNE, n.

Misfortune. [Not used.] – Elyot.

IN-FRACT', v.t. [L. infractus, from infringo; in and frango, to break.]

To break; to violate. [This is synonymous with infringe; it is an unnecessary word and little used.]

IN-FRACT'ED, pp.

Broken.

IN-FRAC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. infractio. See Infract.]

The act of breaking; breach; violation; non-observance; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, agreement or law. – Watts.

IN-FRACT'OR, n.

One that violates an agreement, &c.

IN-FRA'GRANT, a.

Not fragrant.

IN-FRA-LAPS-A'RI-AN, a.

Subsequent to the apostasy of Adam. As a noun, opposed to supralapsarian.

IN-FRA-MUND'ANE, a. [L. infra, below, and mundanus, mundus, the world.]

Lying or being beneath the world.

IN-FRAN'GI-BLE, a. [in and frangible.]

1. Not to be broken or separated into parts; as, infrangible atoms. – Cheyne.
2. Not to be violated.

IN-FRA-TER-RI-TO'RI-AL, a.

Within the territory. Story, Sup. Court.

IN-FRE'QUENCE, or IN-FRE'QUEN-CY, n. [L. infrequentia.]

Uncommonness; rareness; the state of rarely occurring. Broome.

IN-FRE'QUENT, a. [L. infrequens; in and frequens, frequent.]

Rare; uncommon; seldom happening or occurring to notice; unfrequent.

IN-FRE'QUENT-LY, adv.

Not frequently.

IN-FRIG'ID-ATE, v.t. [L. in and frigidus, cold.]

To chill; to make cold. [Little used.] – Boyle.

IN-FRIG-ID-A'TION, n.

The act of making cold. Tatler.