Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-CI-DENT'AL-LY, adv.

1. Casually; without intention; accidentally. I was incidentally present when the conversation took place.
2. Beside the main design; occasionally. I treat either purposely or incidentally of colors. Boyle.

IN'CI-DENT-LY, adv.

Occasionally; by the way. [Not used.] Bacon.

IN-CIN'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. in and cinis, cineris, ashes.]

To burn to ashes. Bacon.

IN-CIN'ER-A-TED, pp.

Burnt to ashes.

IN-CIN'ER-A-TING, ppr.

Reducing to ashes by combustion.

IN-CIN-ER-A'TION, n.

The act of reducing to ashes by combustion. Boyle. Encyc.

IN-CIP'I-EN-CY, n.

Beginning; commencement.

IN-CIP'IENT, a. [L. incipiens, incipio; in and capio, to take.]

Beginning; commencing; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light or day.

IN-CIP'I-ENT-LY, adv.

In an incipient manner.

IN-CIR'CLET, n.

A small circle. Sidney.

IN-CIR-CUM-SCRIPTI-BLE, a.

That can not be circumscribed or limited. Creamer.

IN-CIR-CUM-SPEC'TION, n. [in and circumspection.]

Want of circumspection; heedlessness. Brown.

IN-CISE', v.t. [s as z. Fr. inciser.]

To cut in; to carve. Carew.

IN-CIS'ED, a. [L. incisus, from incido, to cut.]

Cut; made by cutting; as, an incised wound; incised lips. Wiseman.

IN-CISE'LY, adv.

In the manner of incisions or notches.

IN-CIS'ING, pp.

Cutting in; carving.

IN-CIS'ION, n. [s as z. Fr.; L. incisio, from incido, to cut.]

1. A cutting; the act of cutting into a substance.
2. A cut; a gash; the separation of the surface of any substance made by a sharp instrument. The surgeon with his knife makes an incision in the flesh, and the gardener, in a tree; but we do not say, an incision is made with a plow or a spade; at least, such phraseology is unusual.
3. Separation of viscid matter by medicines. [Obs.] Bacon.

IN-CIS'IVE, a. [Fr. incisif.]

Having the quality of cutting or separating the superficial part of any thing. Incisive teeth, in animals, are the fore teeth, the cutters.

IN-CI'SOR, n. [L.]

A cutter; a fore tooth, which cuts, bites, or separates.

IN-CI'SOR-Y, a.

Having the quality of cutting.

IN-CIS'URE, n. [L. incisura.]

A cut; a place opened by cutting; an incision. Derham.

IN-CI'TANT, n. [from incite.]

That which excites action in an animal body. Darwin.

IN-CI-TA'TION, n. [incitatio. See Incite.]

1. The act of inciting or moving to action; incitement. Brown.
2. Incitement; incentive; motive; that which excites to action; that which rouses or prompts. Government of the Tongue.

IN-CITE', v.t. [L. incito; in and cito, to call, to stir up.]

1. To move the mind to action by persuasion or motives presented; to stir up; to rouse; to spur on. Antiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans. Bacon.
2. To move to action by impulse or influence. No blown ambition does our arms incite. Shak.
3. To animate; to encourage.

IN-CIT'ED, pp.

Moved to action; stirred up; spurred on.