Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: IN-CI-DENT'AL-LY – IN-CIT'ED
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IN-CI-DENT'AL-LY, adv.
- Casually; without intention; accidentally. I was incidentally present when the conversation took place.
- Beside the main design; occasionally. I treat either purposely or incidentally of colors. Boyle.
IN'CI-DENT-LY, adv.
Occasionally; by the way. [Not used.] Bacon.
IN-CIN'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. in and cinis, cineris, ashes.]
To burn to ashes. Bacon.
IN-CIN'ER-A-TED, pp.
Burnt to ashes.
IN-CIN'ER-A-TING, ppr.
Reducing to ashes by combustion.
IN-CIN-ER-A'TION, n.
The act of reducing to ashes by combustion. Boyle. Encyc.
IN-CIP'I-EN-CY, n.
Beginning; commencement.
IN-CIP'IENT, a. [L. incipiens, incipio; in and capio, to take.]
Beginning; commencing; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light or day.
IN-CIP'I-ENT-LY, adv.
In an incipient manner.
IN-CIR'CLET, n.
A small circle. Sidney.
That can not be circumscribed or limited. Creamer.
IN-CIR-CUM-SPEC'TION, n. [in and circumspection.]
Want of circumspection; heedlessness. Brown.
IN-CISE', v.t. [s as z. Fr. inciser.]
To cut in; to carve. Carew.
IN-CIS'ED, a. [L. incisus, from incido, to cut.]
Cut; made by cutting; as, an incised wound; incised lips. Wiseman.
IN-CISE'LY, adv.
In the manner of incisions or notches.
IN-CIS'ING, pp.
Cutting in; carving.
IN-CIS'ION, n. [s as z. Fr.; L. incisio, from incido, to cut.]
- A cutting; the act of cutting into a substance.
- A cut; a gash; the separation of the surface of any substance made by a sharp instrument. The surgeon with his knife makes an incision in the flesh, and the gardener, in a tree; but we do not say, an incision is made with a plow or a spade; at least, such phraseology is unusual.
- Separation of viscid matter by medicines. [Obs.] Bacon.
IN-CIS'IVE, a. [Fr. incisif.]
Having the quality of cutting or separating the superficial part of any thing. Incisive teeth, in animals, are the fore teeth, the cutters.
IN-CI'SOR, n. [L.]
A cutter; a fore tooth, which cuts, bites, or separates.
IN-CI'SOR-Y, a.
Having the quality of cutting.
IN-CIS'URE, n. [L. incisura.]
A cut; a place opened by cutting; an incision. Derham.
IN-CI'TANT, n. [from incite.]
That which excites action in an animal body. Darwin.
IN-CI-TA'TION, n. [incitatio. See Incite.]
- The act of inciting or moving to action; incitement. Brown.
- Incitement; incentive; motive; that which excites to action; that which rouses or prompts. Government of the Tongue.
IN-CITE', v.t. [L. incito; in and cito, to call, to stir up.]
- To move the mind to action by persuasion or motives presented; to stir up; to rouse; to spur on. Antiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon.
- To move to action by impulse or influence. No blown ambition does our arms incite. Shak.
- To animate; to encourage.
IN-CIT'ED, pp.
Moved to action; stirred up; spurred on.