Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-CUL-TI-VA'TION, n.

Neglect or want of cultivation. Berington.

IN-CUL'TURE, n.

Want or neglect of cultivation. Feltham.

IN-CUM'BEN-CY, n. [from incumbent.]

1. A lying or resting on something.
2. The state of holding or being in possession of a benefice, or of an office. These lines are to be paid to the bishop, only during his incumbency. Swift. There is no test of the tenure, but incumbency on the part of the king. E. Everett.

IN-CUM'BENT, a. [L. incumbens, incumbo; in and cumbo, to lie down; Sp. incumbir.]

1. Lying or resting on. And when to move th' incumbent load they try. Addison.
2. Supported; buoyed up. And fly incumbent on the dusky air. Dryden.
3. Leaning on, or resting against; as, incumbent stamens or anthers in botany. Martyn.
4. Lying on, as duty or obligation; imposed and emphatically urging or pressing to performance; indispensable. All men, truly zealous, wilt perform those good works which are incumbent on all Christians. Sprat.

IN-CUM'BENT, n.

The person who is in present possession of a benefice, or of any office. [It is applied to civil officers as well as to ecclesiastical.]

IN-CUM'BENT-LY, adv.

In an incumbent manner. Chalmers.

IN-CUM'BER, v.t. [Ft. encombrer; It. ingombrare.]

To burden with a load; to embarrass. [See Encumber, and its derivatives.]

IN-CUM'BRANCE, n.

1. A burdensome and troublesome load; any thing that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; embarrassment.
2. A legal claim on the estate of another.

IN-CUM'BRAN-CER, n.

One who has an incumbrance, or some legal claim on an estate. Kent.

IN-CUM'BROUS, a.

Cumbersome; troublesome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

IN-CUR', v.t. [L. incurro, to run against; in and curro, to run; It. incorrere; Sp. incurrir.]

1. Literally, to run against; hence, to become liable to; to become subject to. Thus, a thief incurs the punishment of the law by the act of stealing, before he is convicted, and we have all incurred the penalties of God's law.
2. To bring on; as, to incur a debt; to incur guilt; to incur the displeasure of God; to incur blame or censure.
3. To occur; to meet; to press on. [Obs.] Bacon.

IN-CUR-A-BIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. incurabilité.]

The state of being incurable; impossibility of cure; insusceptibility of cure or remedy. Harvey.

IN-CUR'A-BLE, a. [Fr.; in and curable.]

1. That can not be cured; not admitting of cure; beyond the power of skill or medicine; as, an incurable disease.
2. Not admitting remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.

IN-CUR'A-BLE, n.

A person diseased beyond the reach of cure.

IN-CUR'A-BLE-NESS, n.

The state of not admitting cure or remedy.

IN-CUR'A-BLY, adv.

In a manner or degree that renders cure impracticable.

IN-CU-RI-OS'I-TY, n.

Want of curiosity; inattentiveness; indifference. Wotton.

IN-CU'RI-OUS, a. [in and curious.]

Destitute of curiosity; not curious or inquisitive; inattentive. Swift.

IN-CU'RI-OUS-LY, adv.

Without inquisitiveness. Bp. Hall.

IN-CURI-OUS-NESS, n.

Want of curiosity or inquisitiveness. Chesterfield.

IN-CUR'RED, pp.

Brought on.

IN-CUR'RENCE, a.

The act of bringing on, or subjecting one's self to; as, the incurrence of guilt

IN-CUR'RING, ppr.

Becoming subject or liable to; bringing on.

IN-CUR'SION, n. [Fr. incursion; L. incursio, from incurro. See Incur.]

1. Literally, a running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; an inroad; applied to the expeditions of small parties or detachments of an enemy's army, entering a territory for attack, plunder or destruction of a post or magazine. Hence it differs from invasion, which is the hostile entrance of an army for conquest. During the revolution, the British troops made an incursion to Danbury, and destroyed the magazines. In opposing this incursion, Gen. Wooster was killed.
2. Attack; occurrence; as, sins of daily incursion. [Unusual.] South.

IN-CURV'ATE, a.

Curved inward or upward.