Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: IN-FORM'A-TIVE – IN-FRIG-ID-A'TION
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IN-FORM'A-TIVE, a.
Having power to animate. More.
IN-FORM'ED, pp.
Told; instructed; made acquainted.
IN-FORM'ER, n.
- One who animates, informs or give intelligence.
- One who communicates, or whose duty it is to communicate to a magistrate a knowledge of the violations of law, and bring the offenders to trial.
IN-FORM'I-DA-BLE, a. [in and formidable.]
Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. Foe not informidable. Milton.
IN-FORM'ING, ppr.
- Giving notice or intelligence; telling.
- Communicating facts by way of accusation. Informing officer, is an officer whose duty it is to inform against persons for breaches of law, as an attorney-general, a sheriff, constable, or grand juror. A common informer, is any person who informs against another.
IN-FORM'I-TY, n. [L. informis.]
Want of regular form; shapelessness. Brown.
IN-FORM'OUS, a. [Fr. informe; L. informis.]
Of no regular form or figure; shapeless. Brown. Wilford.
IN-FORO-CONSCIENTIAE, adv. [In foro conscientiæ; L.]
Before the tribunal of conscience.
IN-FOR'TUNATE, a. [L. infortunatus.]
Unlucky; unfortunate. [The latter is commonly used.]
IN-FOR'TU-NATE-LY, adv.
Unfortunately. [Not used.]
IN-FOR'TUNE, n.
Misfortune. [Not used.] – Elyot.
IN-FRACT', v.t. [L. infractus, from infringo; in and frango, to break.]
To break; to violate. [This is synonymous with infringe; it is an unnecessary word and little used.]
IN-FRACT'ED, pp.
Broken.
IN-FRAC'TION, n. [Fr. from L. infractio. See Infract.]
The act of breaking; breach; violation; non-observance; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, agreement or law. – Watts.
IN-FRACT'OR, n.
One that violates an agreement, &c.
IN-FRA'GRANT, a.
Not fragrant.
Subsequent to the apostasy of Adam. As a noun, opposed to supralapsarian.
IN-FRA-MUND'ANE, a. [L. infra, below, and mundanus, mundus, the world.]
Lying or being beneath the world.
IN-FRAN'GI-BLE, a. [in and frangible.]
- Not to be broken or separated into parts; as, infrangible atoms. – Cheyne.
- Not to be violated.
Within the territory. Story, Sup. Court.
IN-FRE'QUENCE, or IN-FRE'QUEN-CY, n. [L. infrequentia.]
Uncommonness; rareness; the state of rarely occurring. Broome.
IN-FRE'QUENT, a. [L. infrequens; in and frequens, frequent.]
Rare; uncommon; seldom happening or occurring to notice; unfrequent.
IN-FRE'QUENT-LY, adv.
Not frequently.
IN-FRIG'ID-ATE, v.t. [L. in and frigidus, cold.]
To chill; to make cold. [Little used.] – Boyle.
The act of making cold. Tatler.