Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: IN-ER'RING-LY – IN-EX-CUS'A-BLE
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IN-ER'RING-LY, adv.
Without error; mistake or deviation. Glanville.
IN-ERT', a. [L. iners; in and ars, art. The English sense is drawn not from art, but from the primary sense, strength or vigorous action.]
- Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion impressed; as, matter is inert.
- Dull; sluggish; indisposed to move or act. Thomson.
IN-ER'TIA, n. [See INERTNESS.]
IN-ER'TION, n.
Want of activity; want of action or exertion. These vicissitudes of exertion and inertion of the arterial system, constitute the paroxysms of remittent fever. Darwin.
IN-ERT'I-TUDE, n.
The state of being inert, or a tendency to remain quiescent till impelled by external force to move. Good.
IN-ERT'LY, adv.
Without activity; sluggishly. Dunciad.
IN-ERT'NESS, n.
- The state or quality of being inert, or destitute of the power to move per se; that quality of passiveness by which bodies persist in a state of rest, or of motion given to them by external force. In the language of philosophy, this quality is called vis inertiæ, or inertia. Newton.
- Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness.
IN-ES'CATE, v.t. [L. inesco.]
To bait; to lay a bait for.
IN-ES'CA-TED, pp.
Baited.
IN-ES-CA'TION, n.
The act of baiting. Hallowell.
IN-ESSE, a. [or adv.; In esse; L.]
In being; actually existing; distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be.
IN-ES-SEN'TIAL, a.
Not essential; unessential.
IN-ES'TI-MA-BLE, a. [L. inæstimabilis. See Estimate.]
- That can not be estimated or computed; as, an inestimable sum of money.
- Too valuable or excellent to be rated; being above all price; as, inestimable rights. The privileges of American citizens, civil and religious, are inestimable.
IN-ES'TI-MA-BLY, adv.
In a manner not to be estimated or rated.
IN-E-VA'SI-BLE, a.
That can not be evaded. Ec. Rev.
IN-EV'I-DENCE, n.
Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
IN-EV'I-DENT, a. [in and evident.]
Not evident; not clear or obvious; obscure. Brown.
IN-EV-IT-A-BIL'I-TY, as. [from inevitable.]
Impossibility to be avoided; certainty to happen. Bramhall.
IN-EV'IT-A-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. inevitabilis; in and evitabilis, from evito, to shun.]
Not to be avoided; that can not be shunned; unavoidable; that admits of no escape or evasion. To die is the inevitable lot of man; we are all subjected to many inevitable calamities.
The state of being unavoidable.
IN-EV'IT-A-BLY, adv.
Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly. How inevitably does immoderate laughter end in a sigh! South.
IN-EX-ACT', a. [in and exact.]
Not exact; not precisely correct or true.
IN-EX-ACT'NESS, n.
Incorrectness; want of precision.
IN-EX-CIT'A-BLE, a. [in and excitable.]
Not susceptible of excitement; dull; lifeless; torpid.
IN-EX-CUS'A-BLE, a. [s as z. L. inexusabilis; in and excusabilis, excuso. See Excuse.]
Not to be excused or justified; as, inexcusable folly.