Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: IN-HOS'PI-TA-BLY – IN-I'TIAL-LY
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IN-HOS'PI-TA-BLY, adv.
Unkindly to strangers. Milton.
IN-HU'MAN, a. [Fr. inhumain; L. inhumanus; in and humanus, humane.]
- Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
- Marked with cruelty; as, an inhuman act.
IN-HU-MAN'I-TY, n. [Fr. inhumanité.]
- Cruelty in disposition; savageness of heart; used of persons.
- 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.]
- To bury; to inter; to deposit in the earth, as a dead body.
- To digest in a vessel surrounded with warm earth. Encyc.
IN-HU-MA'TION, n.
- The act of burying; interment.
- 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.
Unimaginable; inconceivable. Pearson.
IN-IM'IC-AL, a. [L. inimicus; in and amicus, friend.]
- Unfriendly; having the disposition or temper of an enemy; applied to private enmity, as hostile is to public.
- 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.]
- Injustice; unrighteousness; a deviation from rectitude; as, the iniquity of war; the iniquity of the slave trade.
- Want of rectitude in principle; as, a malicious prosecution originating in the iniquity of the author.
- 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.
- 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.]
- Beginning; placed at the beginning; as, the initial letters of a name.
- 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.