Dictionary: IN-REG'IS-TER – IN-SCRI'BA-BLE-NESS

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IN-REG'IS-TER, v.t. [Fr. enregistrer. See Register.]

To register; to record; to enter in a register. Walsh.

IN'ROAD, n. [in and road.]

  1. The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion. The confines of England and Scotland were formerly harassed with frequent inroads. The English made inroads into Scotland, and the Scotch into England, and the country was sometimes desolated.
  2. Attack; encroachment.

IN-SAFE'TY, n.

Want of safety. [Ill.] Naunton.

IN-SA-LU'BRI-OUS, a. [in and salubrious.]

Not salubrious; not healthful; unfavorable to health; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.

IN-SA-LU'BRI-TY, n. [in and salubrity.]

Want of salubrity; unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water or climate.

IN-SAL'U-TA-RY, a. [in and salutary.]

  1. Not salutary; not favorable to health or soundness.
  2. Not tending to safety; productive of evil.

IN-SAN-A-BIL'TY, or IN-SAN'A-BLE-NESS, n.

State of being incurable.

IN-SAN'A-BLE, a. [L. insanabilis; in and sano, to heal.]

Incurable; that can not be healed. Johnson.

IN-SAN'A-BLY, adv.

So as to be incurable.

IN-SANE', a. [L. insanus; in and sanus, sound.]

  1. Unsound in mind or intellect; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. Shak. [In the sense of making mad, it is little used.]
  2. Used by or appropriated to insane persons; as, an insane hospital.

IN-SANE', n.

An insane person; as, a hospital for the insane.

IN-SANE'LY, adv.

Madly; foolishly; without reason. Montgomery.

IN-SANE'NESS, or IN-SAN'I-TY, n.

The state of being unsound in mind; derangement of intellect; madness. Insanity is chiefly used, and the word is applicable to any degree of mental derangement, from slight delirium or wandering, to distraction. It is however rarely used to express slight, temporary delirium, occasioned by fever or accident.

IN-SAP'O-RY, a. [L. in and sapor, taste.]

Tasteless; wanting flavor. [Not used.] Herbert.

IN-SA'TIA-BLE, a. [insa'shable; Fr. from L. insatiabilis; in and satio, to satisfy.]

Incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite or desire; insatiable thirst.

IN-SA'TIA-BLE-NESS, n. [insa'shableness.]

Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased. King Charles.

IN-SA'TIA-BLY, adv. [insa'shably.]

With greediness not to be satisfied. South.

IN-SA'TIATE, a. [insa'shate; L. insatiatus.]

Not to be satisfied; insatiable; as, insatiate thirst. Philips.

IN-SA'TIATE-LY, adv.

So greedily as not to be satisfied.

IN-SA-TI'E-TY, n.

Insatiableness. Granger.

IN-SAT-IS-FAC'TION, n.

Want of satisfaction. Bacon.

IN-SAT'U-RA-BLE, a. [L. insaturabilis; in and satur, full.]

Not to be saturated, filled or glutted. Johnson.

IN-SCI'ENCE, n. [in and science.]

Ignorance; want of knowledge. Ch. Relig. Appeal.

IN-SCRIB'A-BLE, a.

That may be inscribed.

IN-SCRI'BA-BLE-NESS, n.

State of being inscribable.