Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-COR-RECT'LY, adv.

Not in accordance with truth or other standard; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.

IN-COR-RECT'NESS, n.

Want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy. Incorrectness may consist in defect or in redundance.

IN-COR-RES-POND'ING, a.

Not corresponding. Coleridge.

IN-COR'RI-GI-BLE, a. [Fr.; in and corrigible; L. corrigo; con and rego.]

1. That can not be corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; as, incorrigible error.
2. Too depraved to be corrected or reformed; as, an incorrigible sinner; an incorrigible drunkard.

IN-COR'RI-GI-BLE-NESS, or IN-COR-RI-GI-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of being bad, erroneous or depraved beyond correction; hopeless depravity in persons and error in things. Locke.

IN-COR'RI-GI-BLY, adv.

To a degree of depravity beyond all means of amendment. Roscommon.

IN-COR-RUPT', or IN-COR-RUPT'ED, a. [L. incorruptus; in and corrumpo, corruptus; con and rumpo, to break.]

Not corrupt; not marred, impaired or spoiled; not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; applicable to persons, principles or substances. Milton.

IN-COR-RUPT-I-BIL'I-TY, n. [from incorruptible.]

The quality of being incapable of decay or of being corrupted.

IN-COR-RUPT'I-BLE, a. [Fr.; in and corruptible.]

1. That can not corrupt or decay; not admitting of corruption. Thus gold, glass, mercury, &c. are incorruptible. Spirits are supposed to be incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.
2. That can not be bribed; inflexibly just and upright.

IN-COR-RUPT'I-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality of being incorruptible, or not liable to decay. Boyle.

IN-COR-RUPT'I-BLY, adv.

So as not to admit of corruption or decay.

IN-COR-RUP'TION, n. [in and corruption.]

Incapacity of being corrupted. It is sown in corruption: it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.

IN-COR-RUP'TIVE, a.

Not liable to corruption or decay. Akenside.

IN-COR-RUPT'NESS, n.

1. Exemption from decay or corruption.
2. Purity of mind or manner; probity; integrity; honesty. Woodward.

IN-CRAS'SATE, or IN-CRAS'SA-TED, a.

1. In botany, thickened or becoming thicker. Martyn.
2. Fattened.

IN-CRAS'SATE, v.i.

To become thick or thicker.

IN-CRAS'SATE, v.t. [L. incrasso, incrassatus; in and crassus, thick.]

1. To make thick or thicker; to thicken; the contrary to attenuate.
2. In pharmacy, to make fluids thicker by the mixture of other substances less fluid, or by evaporating the thinner parts. Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. Newton.

IN-CRAS'SA-TED, pp.

Made thick or thicker.

IN-CRAS'SA-TING, ppr.

Rendering thick or thicker; growing thicker.

IN-CRAS-SA'TION, n.

The act of thickening, or state of becoming thick or thicker. Brown.

IN-CRAS'SA-TIVE, a.

Having the quality of thickening.

IN-CRAS'SA-TIVE, n.

That which has the power to thicken. Harvey.

IN-CREAS'A-BLE, a.

That may be increased. Sherwood.

IN-CREASE', n.

1. Augmentation; a growing larger; extension. Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. Is. ix.
2. Increment; profit; interest; that which is added to the original stock. Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God. Lev. xxv.
3. Produce, as of land. Then shall the earth yield her increase. Ps. lxvii.
4. Progeny; issue; offspring. All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. 1 Sam. ii.
5. Generation. Shak.
6. The waxing of the moon; the augmentation of the luminous part of the moon, presented to the inhabitants of the earth. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges and herbs will grow soonest, if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon.
7. Augmentation of strength or violence; as, increase of heat, love or other passion; increase of force.
8. Augmentation of degree; as, increase of happiness or misery.

IN-CREASE', v.t.¹ [L. incresco; in and cresco, to grow, Fr. croître, Sp. crecer, It. crescere, Arm. cresqi. As the Latin pret. is crevi, this word and the Eng. grow, are probably of the same family. Class Rd, No. 59, 75.]

1. To become greater in bulk or quantity; to grow; to augment; as plants. Hence, to become more in number; to advance in value, or in any quality good or bad. Animal and vegetable bodies increase by natural growth; wealth increases by industry; heat increases, as the sun advances towards the meridian; a multitude increases by accession of numbers; knowledge increases with age and study; passion and enmity increase by irritation, and misery increases with vice. The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another. 1 Thess. iii.
2. To become more violent; as, the fever increases; the pain increases; cold, wind or a storm increases.
3. To become more bright or vivid; as, the light increases.
4. To swell; to rise. The waters increased and bore up the ark. Gen. vii.
5. To swell; to become louder, as sound.
6. To become of more esteem and authority. He must increase, but I must decrease. John iii.
7. To enlarge, as the enlightened part of the moon's disk.