Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-CON-SPIC'U-OUS-LY, adv.

So as not to be perceived.

IN-CON'STAN-CY, n. [L. inconstantia. See Constancy.]

1. Mutability or instability of temper or affection; unsteadiness; fickleness. Addison.
2. Want of uniformity; dissimilitude. Woodward.

IN-CON'STANT, a. [L. inconstans; Fr. inconstant.]

1. Mutable; subject to change of opinion, inclination or purpose; not firm in resolution; unsteady; fickle; used of persons; as, inconstant in love or friendship.
2. Mutable; changeable; variable; used of things.

IN-CON'STANT-LY, adv.

In an inconstant manner; not steadily.

IN-CON-SUM'A-BLE, a. [in and consumable.]

Not to be consumed; that can not be wasted. Brown.

IN-CON-SUM'A-BLY, adv.

So as not to be consumable. Shelly.

IN-CON-SUM'MATE, a.

Not consummate; not finished; not complete.

IN-CON-SUM'MATE-NESS, n.

State of being incomplete.

IN-CON-SUMP'TI-BLE, a. [L. in and consumptus.]

1. Not to be spent, wasted or destroyed by fire. [Not used.] Digby.
2. Not to be destroyed. [Not used.]

IN-CON-TAM'IN-ATE, a.

Not contaminated. Moore.

IN-CON-TAM'IN-ATE-NESS, n.

Uncorrupted state.

IN-CON-TEST'A-BLE, a. [Fr.]

Not contestable; not to be disputed; not admitting debate; too clear to be controverted; incontrovertible; as, incontestable evidence, truth or facts.

IN-CON-TEST'A-BLY, adv.

In a manner to preclude debate; indisputably; incontrovertibly; indubitably. Reid.

IN-CON-TIG'U-OUS, a. [in and contiguous.]

Not contiguous; not adjoining; not touching; separate. Boyle.

IN-CON-TIG'U-OUS-LY, adv.

Not contiguously; separately.

IN-CON'TIN-ENCE, or IN-CON'TIN-EN-CY, n. [L. incontinentia; Fr. incontinence. See Continence.]

1. Want of restraint of the passions or appetites; free or uncontrolled indulgence of the passions or appetites, as of anger. Gillies' Aristotle.
2. Want of restraint of the sexual appetite; free or illegal indulgence of lust; lewdness; used of either sex, but appropriately of the male sex. Incontinence in men is the same as unchastity in women.
3. Among physicians, the inability of any of the animal organs to restrain discharges of their contents, so that the discharges are involuntary.

IN-CON'TIN-ENT, a. [L. incontinens.]

1. Not restraining the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging lust without restraint or in violation of law; unchaste; lewd.
2. Unable to restrain discharges. In the sense of immediate or immediately, obsolete.

IN-CON'TIN-ENT, n.

One who is unchaste. B. Jonson.

IN-CON'TIN-ENT-LY, adv.

1. Without due restraint of the passions or appetites; unchastely.
2. Immediately. [obs.] Pope.

IN-CON-TRACT'ED, a.

Not contracted; not shortened. Blackwall.

IN-CON-TROLL'A-BLE, a. [in and controllable.]

Not to be controlled; that can not be restrained or governed; uncontrollable. Walsh.

IN-CON-TROLL'A-BLY, adv.

In a manner that admits of no control.

IN-CON-TRO-VERT'I-BLE, a. [in and controvertible.]

Indisputable; too clear or certain to admit of dispute.

IN-CON-TRO-VERT'I-BLY, adv.

In a manner or to a degree that precludes debate or controversy.

IN-CON-VE'NI-ENCE, or IN-CON-VE'NIEN-CY, n. [L. inconveniens; in and convenio, conveniens.]

1. Unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpedience. They plead against the inconveniences not the unlawfulness of popish apparel. Hooker.
2. That which gives trouble or uneasiness; disadvantage; any thing that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success. Rain and bad roads are inconveniences to the traveler; want of utensils is a great inconvenience to a family; but the great inconvenience of human life is the want of money and the means of obtaining it.