Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-ER'RING-LY, adv.

Without error; mistake or deviation. Glanville.

IN-ERT', a. [L. iners; in and ars, art. The English sense is drawn not from art, but from the primary sense, strength or vigorous action.]

1. Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion impressed; as, matter is inert.
2. Dull; sluggish; indisposed to move or act. Thomson.

IN-ER'TIA, n. [See INERTNESS.]

IN-ER'TION, n.

Want of activity; want of action or exertion. These vicissitudes of exertion and inertion of the arterial system, constitute the paroxysms of remittent fever. Darwin.

IN-ERT'I-TUDE, n.

The state of being inert, or a tendency to remain quiescent till impelled by external force to move. Good.

IN-ERT'LY, adv.

Without activity; sluggishly. Dunciad.

IN-ERT'NESS, n.

1. The state or quality of being inert, or destitute of the power to move per se; that quality of passiveness by which bodies persist in a state of rest, or of motion given to them by external force. In the language of philosophy, this quality is called vis inertiæ, or inertia. Newton.
2. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness.

IN-ES'CATE, v.t. [L. inesco.]

To bait; to lay a bait for.

IN-ES'CA-TED, pp.

Baited.

IN-ES-CA'TION, n.

The act of baiting. Hallowell.

IN-ESSE, a. [or adv.; In esse; L.]

In being; actually existing; distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be.

IN-ES-SEN'TIAL, a.

Not essential; unessential.

IN-ES'TI-MA-BLE, a. [L. inæstimabilis. See Estimate.]

1. That can not be estimated or computed; as, an inestimable sum of money.
2. Too valuable or excellent to be rated; being above all price; as, inestimable rights. The privileges of American citizens, civil and religious, are inestimable.

IN-ES'TI-MA-BLY, adv.

In a manner not to be estimated or rated.

IN-E-VA'SI-BLE, a.

That can not be evaded. Ec. Rev.

IN-EV'I-DENCE, n.

Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.

IN-EV'I-DENT, a. [in and evident.]

Not evident; not clear or obvious; obscure. Brown.

IN-EV-IT-A-BIL'I-TY, as. [from inevitable.]

Impossibility to be avoided; certainty to happen. Bramhall.

IN-EV'IT-A-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. inevitabilis; in and evitabilis, from evito, to shun.]

Not to be avoided; that can not be shunned; unavoidable; that admits of no escape or evasion. To die is the inevitable lot of man; we are all subjected to many inevitable calamities.

IN-EV'IT-A-BLE-NESS, a.

The state of being unavoidable.

IN-EV'IT-A-BLY, adv.

Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly. How inevitably does immoderate laughter end in a sigh! South.

IN-EX-ACT', a. [in and exact.]

Not exact; not precisely correct or true.

IN-EX-ACT'NESS, n.

Incorrectness; want of precision.

IN-EX-CIT'A-BLE, a. [in and excitable.]

Not susceptible of excitement; dull; lifeless; torpid.

IN-EX-CUS'A-BLE, a. [s as z. L. inexusabilis; in and excusabilis, excuso. See Excuse.]

Not to be excused or justified; as, inexcusable folly.