Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-HOS'PI-TA-BLY, adv.

Unkindly to strangers. Milton.

IN-HU'MAN, a. [Fr. inhumain; L. inhumanus; in and humanus, humane.]

1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
2. Marked with cruelty; as, an inhuman act.

IN-HU-MAN'I-TY, n. [Fr. inhumanité.]

1. Cruelty in disposition; savageness of heart; used of persons.
2. Cruelty in act; barbarity; used of actions.

IN-HU'MAN-LY, adv.

With cruelty; barbarously. Swift.

IN-HU'MATE, or IN-HUME', v.t. [Fr. inhumer; L. inhumo, humo, to bury.]

1. To bury; to inter; to deposit in the earth, as a dead body.
2. To digest in a vessel surrounded with warm earth. Encyc.

IN-HU-MA'TION, n.

1. The act of burying; interment.
2. In chimistry, a method of digesting substances by burying the vessel containing them in warm earth, or a like substance. Encyc.

IN-HUM'ED, pp.

Buried; interred.

IN-HUM'ING, ppr.

Burying; interring.

IN-IM-AG'IN-A-BLE, a.

Unimaginable; inconceivable. Pearson.

IN-IM'IC-AL, a. [L. inimicus; in and amicus, friend.]

1. Unfriendly; having the disposition or temper of an enemy; applied to private enmity, as hostile is to public.
2. Adverse; hurtful; repugnant. Savage violences inimical to commerce. Ward.

IN-IM'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In an unfriendly manner.

IN-IM-I-TA-BIL'ITY, n. [from inimitable.]

The quality of being incapable of imitation. Norris.

IN-IM'I-TABLE, a. [Fr. from L. inimitabilis; in and imitabilis, from imitor, to imitate.]

That can not be imitated or copied; surpassing imitation; as, inimitable beauty or excellence; an inimitable description; inimitable eloquence.

IN-IM'I-TA-BLY, adv.

In a manner not to be imitated; to a degree beyond imitation. Charms such as thine, inimitably great. Broome.

IN-IQ'UI-TOUS, a. [See Iniquity.]

Unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding. [It is applied to things rather than to persons, but may be applied to persons.]

IN-IQ'UI-TOUS-LY, adv.

Unjustly; wickedly.

IN-IQ'UI-TY, n. [Fr. iniquité; iniquitas; in and æquitas, equity.]

1. Injustice; unrighteousness; a deviation from rectitude; as, the iniquity of war; the iniquity of the slave trade.
2. Want of rectitude in principle; as, a malicious prosecution originating in the iniquity of the author.
3. A particular deviation from rectitude; a sin or crime; wickedness; any act of injustice. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. Ps. lix.
4. Original want of holiness, or depravity. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li.

IN-IQ'U-OUS, a.

Unjust. [Not used.]

IN-IR-RI-TA-BIL'I-TY, n. [in and irritability.]

The quality of being inirritable, or not susceptible of contraction by excitement. Darwin.

IN-IR'RI-TA-BLE, a. [in and irritable.]

Not irritable; not susceptible of irritation, or contraction by excitement. Darwin.

IN-IR'RI-TA-TIVE, a.

Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. Darwin.

IN-ISLE', v.t. [ini'le. in and isle.]

To surround; to encircle. [Not in use.] Drayton.

IN-I'TIAL, a. [Fr. from L. initialis, initium, beginning.]

1. Beginning; placed at the beginning; as, the initial letters of a name.
2. Beginning; incipient; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

IN-I'TIAL, n.

The first letter of a name.

IN-I'TIAL-LY, adv.

In an incipient degree. Barrow.