Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-COM-MUT'A-BLY, adv.

Without reciprocal change. Ch. Relig. Appeal.

IN-COM-PACT', or IN-COM-PACT'ED, a. [in and compact.]

Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid. Boyle.

IN-COM'PA-RA-BLE, a. [in and comparable.]

That admits of no comparison with others; usually in a good sense, but it may be properly used in a bad sense. When we say, an incomparable man, we mean a man of good qualities, or of some excellence that raises him above comparison or equality with others. So we say, incomparable excellence, virtue, wit, &c. But incomparable baseness or malignity may be used with propriety.

IN-COM'PA-RA-BLE-NESS, n.

Excellence beyond comparison.

IN-COM'PA-RA-BLY, adv.

Beyond comparison; without competition. Newton was incomparably the greatest philosopher the English nation had produced.

IN-COM-PAR'ED, a.

Not matched; peerless. Spenser.

IN-COM-PAS'SION-ATE, a. [in and compassionate.]

Void of compassion or pity; destitute of tenderness. Johnson.

IN-COM-PAS'SION-ATE-LY, adv.

Without pity or tenderness.

IN-COM-PAS'SION-ATE-NESS, n.

Want of pity. Granger.

IN-COM-PAT-I-BIL'I-TY, n. [from incompatible.]

1. Inconsistency; that quality or state of a thing which renders it impossible that it should subsist or be consistent with something else. There is a permanent incompatibility between truth and falsehood.
2. Irreconcilable disagreement. During the revolution in France, incompatibility of temper was deemed a sufficient cause for divorcing man and wife.

IN-COM-PAT'I-BLE, a. [Fr. from the L. in and competo, to suit, to be proper or convenient; con and peto, to press toward, to seek, or press on. It was formerly incompetible.]

1. Inconsistent; that can not subsist with something else. Thus, truth and falsehood are essentially incompatible, as are virtue and vice. A degree of cold that congeals water is incompatible with vegetation. Dissipation is incompatible with health, reputation and virtue.
2. Irreconcilably different or disagreeing; incongruous; as, incompatible tempers.
3. Legally or constitutionally inconsistent; that can not be united in the same person, without violating the law or constitution. By our constitution, the offices of a legislator and of a judge are incompatible, as they can not be held at the same time by the same person.

IN-COM-PAT'I-BLY, adv.

Inconsistently; incongruously.

IN-COM-PENS'A-BLE, a.

That can not be recompensed.

IN-COM'PE-TENCE, or IN-COM'PE-TEN-CY, n. [Fr. incompetence, from incompetent.]

1. Inability; want of sufficient intellectual powers or talents; as, the incompetency of infants or idiots.
2. Want of natural adequate strength of body or of suitable faculties; as, the incompetency of the eyes to discern the motions of the heavenly bodies.
3. Want of legal or constitutional qualifications; as, the incompetency of a witness.
4. Want of adequate means.
5. Insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of testimony.

IN-COM'PE-TENT, a. [Fr. from L. in and competens, competo. See Incompatible.]

1. Wanting adequate powers of mind or suitable faculties; as, an incompetent judge. Infancy, derangement, want of learning or dotage may render a person incompetent to fill an office or to transact business.
2. Wanting due strength or suitable faculties; unable.
3. Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications. A person convicted of a crime, is an incompetent witness in a court of law or equity.
4. Destitute of means; unable.
5. Inadequate; insufficient; as, incompetent testimony.
6. Unfit; improper; legally unavailable. It is incompetent for the defendant to make this defense. Mass. Rep.

IN-COM'PE-TENT-LY, adv.

Insufficiently; inadequately; not suitably.

IN-COM-PLETE', a. [in and complete.]

1. Not finished. The building is incomplete.
2. Imperfect; defective.

IN-COM-PLETE', a.

In botany, lacking calyx or corolla, or both.

IN-COM-PLETE'LY, adv.

Imperfectly.

IN-COM-PLETE'NESS, n.

An unfinished state; imperfectness; defectiveness.

IN-COM-PLEX', a. [in and complex.]

Not complex; uncompounded; simple.

IN-COM-PLI'A-BLE, a.

Not compliable.

IN-COM-PLI'ANCE, n. [in and compliance.]

1. Defect of compliance; refusal to comply with solicitations.
2. Untractableness; unyielding temper or constitution. Self-conceit produces peevishness and incompliance of humor in things lawful and indifferent. Tillotson.

IN-COM-PLI'ANT, a. [in and compliant.]

Unyielding to request or solicitation; not disposed to comply.

IN-COM-PLI'ANT-LY, adv.

Not compliantly.