Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: IN-CITE'MENT – IN-CLIN'ED
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IN-CITE'MENT, n.
That which incites the mind or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. From the long records of a distant age, / Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope.
IN-CIT'ER, n.
He or that which incites or moves to action.
IN-CIT'ING, ppr.
Exciting to action; stirring up. In general, incite denotes to operate on the mind or will; excite has the same sense, but it extends also to the passions and to material substances; as, to excite action in the heart and arteries.
IN-CIT'ING-LY, adv.
So as to excite to action.
IN-CIV'IL, n. [in and civil.]
Uncivil; rude; unpolite. [But Uncivil is generally used.]
IN-CI-VIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. incivilité.]
- Want of courtesy; rudeness of manners toward others; impoliteness. Tillotson.
- Any act of rudeness or ill breeding; with a plural. Loud laughter and uncomely jests in respectable company, are incivilities and indecencies.
An uncivilized state.
IN-CIV'IL-LY, adv.
Uncivilly; rudely.
IN-CIV'ISM, n. [in and civism.]
Want of civism; want of love to one's country or of patriotism; unfriendliness to the state or government of which one is a citizen. Ames.
IN-CLASP', v.t.
To clasp; to hold fast. Cudworth.
IN-CLASP'ED, pp.
Held fast.
IN-CLASP'ING, ppr.
Holding fast.
IN'CLA-VA-TED, a.
Set; fast fixed. Dict.
IN'CLE, n.
See INKLE.
IN-CLEM'EN-CY, n. [Fr. inclemence; L. inclementia. See Clemency.]
- Want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; harshness; severity; applied to persons.
- Roughness; boisterousness; storminess; or simply raininess; severe cold, &c.; applied to the weather. We were detained by the inclemency of the weather.
IN-CLEM'ENT, a.
- Destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh.
- Rough; stormy; boisterous; rainy; rigorously cold, &c.; as, inclement weather; inclement sky. Pope.
IN-CLEMENT-LY, adv.
In an inclement manner.
IN-CLIN'A-BLE, a. [L. inclinabilis. See Incline.]
- Leaning; tending; as, a tower inclinable to fall. Bentley.
- Having a propension of will; leaning in disposition; somewhat disposed; as, a mind inclinable to truth. Milton.
The state of being inclinable; inclination.
IN-CLIN-A'TION, n. [Fr. from L. inclinatio. See Incline.]
- A leaning; any deviation of a body or line from an upright position, or from a parallel line, toward another body; as, the inclination of the head in bowing.
- In geometry, the angle made by two lines or planes that meet; as, the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic is 23º 28'.
- A leaning of the mind or will; propension or propensity; a disposition more favorable to one thing than to another. The prince has no inclination to peace. The bachelor has manifested no inclination to marry. Men have a natural inclination to pleasure. A mere inclination to a thing is not properly a willing of that thing. South.
- Love; affection; regard; desire; with for. Some men have an inclination for music, others for painting.
- Disposition of mind. Shak.
- The dip of the magnetic needle, or its tendency to incline toward the earth; also, the angle made by the needle with the horizon. Enfield.
- The act of decanting liquors by stooping or inclining the vessel. Quincy.
IN-CLI'NA-TO-RI-LY, adv.
Obliquely; with inclination. Brown.
IN-CLI'NA-TO-RY, a.
Having the quality of leaning or inclining. Brown.
IN-CLINE', v.i. [L. inclino; in and clino, Gr. κλινω; Sax. hlinian, hleonian, hlynian, Eng. to lean, G. lehnen, D. leunen, Russ. klonyu and nakloniayu; Ir. cleonaim; Fr. incliner; Port. and Sp. inclinar; It. inclinare, inchinare, chinare. Class Ln.]
- To lean; to deviate from an erect or parallel line toward any object; to tend. Converging lines incline toward each other. A road inclines to the north or south. Connecticut river runs south, inclining in some part of its course to the west, and below Middletown, it inclines to the east.
- To lean; in a moral sense; to have a propension; to be disposed; to have some wish or desire. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech. Judges ix.
- To have an appetite; to be disposed; as, to be inclined to eat.
IN-CLINE, v.t.
- To cause to deviate from an erect, perpendicular or parallel line; to give a leaning to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.
- To give a tendency or propension to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose. Incline our hearts to keep this law. Common Prayer. Incline my heart to thy testimonials. Ps. cxix.
- To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility.
IN-CLIN'ED, pp.
Having a leaning or tendency; disposed. Inclined plane, in mechanics, is a plane that makes an oblique angle with the plane of the horizon; a sloping plane.