Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-AR-TIC'U-LATE, a. [in and articulate.]

Not uttered with articulation or junction of the organs of speech; not articulate; not distinct, or with distinction of syllables. The sounds of brutes and fowls are, for the most part, inarticulate.

IN-AR-TIC'U-LATE-LY, adv.

Not with distinct syllables; indistinctly.

IN-AR-TIC'U-LATE-NESS, n.

Indistinctness of utterance by animal voices; want of distinct articulation.

IN-AR-TIC-U-LA'TION, n.

Indistinctness of sounds in speaking.

IN-AR-TI-FI'CIAL, a. [in and artificial.]

1. Not done by art; not made or performed by the rules of art; formed without art; as, an inartificial style of composition.
2. Simple; artless.

IN-AR-TI-FI'CIAL-LY, adv.

Without art; in an artless manner; contrary to the rules of art. Collier.

IN-AS-MUCH', adv. [in, as and much.]

Such being the case or fact; seeing.

IN-AT-TEN'TION, n. [in and attention.]

The want of attention, or of fixing the mind steadily on an object; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears, / But old, the mind with inattention hears. Pope.

IN-AT-TENT'IVE, a. [in and attentive.]

Not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit. Watts.

IN-AT-TENT'IVE-LY, adv.

Without attention; carelessly; heedlessly. Johnson.

IN-AUD-I-BIL'I-TY, or IN-AUD'I-BLE-NESS, n.

State of being inaudible.

IN-AUD'I-BLE, a. [in and audible.]

1. That can not be heard; as, an inaudible voice or sound.
2. Making no sound; as, the inaudible foot of time. Shak.

IN-AUD'I-BLY, adv.

In a manner not to be heard. Colebroke.

IN-AUG'U-RAL, a. [L. inauguro; in and augur.]

1. Pertaining to inauguration; as, inaugural ceremonies.
2. Made or pronounced at an inauguration; as, an inaugural address.

IN-AUG'U-RATE, a.

invested with office. Drayton.

IN-AUG'U-RATE, v.t. [supra.]

1. To introduce or induct into an office with solemnity or suitable ceremonies; to invest with an office in a formal manner; a word borrowed from the ceremonies used by the Romans when they were received into the college of augurs. Kings and emperors are inaugurated by coronation; a prelate, by consecration; and the president of a college by such ceremonies and forms as give weight and authority to the transaction.
2. To begin with good omens. [Not used.] Wotton.

IN-AUG'U-RA-TED,

Inducted into office with appropriate ceremonies.

IN-AUG'U-RA-TING, ppr.

Inducting into office with solemnities.

IN-AUG-UR-A'TION, n.

The act of inducting into office with solemnity; investiture with office by appropriate ceremonies.

IN-AUG'UR-A-TOR, n.

One who inaugurates. Coleridge.

IN-AUG'UR-A-TO-RY, a.

Suited to induction into office; pertaining to inauguration; as, inauguratory, gratulations. Johnson's Lives of the Poets.

IN-AU-RA'TION, n. [L. inauro, inauratus; in and aurum, gold.]

The act or process of gilding, or covering with gold. Arbuthnot.

IN-AU'SPI-CATE, a.

Ill-omened. Buck.

IN-AUS-PI'CIOUS, a. [in and auspicious.]

Ill omened; unfortunate; unlucky; evil; unfavorable. The war commenced at an inauspicious time, and its issue was inauspicious. The counsels of a bad man have an inauspicious influence on society.

IN-AU-SPI'CIOUS-LY, adv.

With ill omens; unfortunately; unfavorably.