Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-FEST'ED, pp.

Troubled; annoyed; harassed; plagued.

IN-FES'TER-ED, a. [in and fester.]

Rankling; inveterate.

IN-FEST'ING, ppr.

Annoying; harassing; disturbing.

IN-FEST'IVE, a. [in and festive.]

Having no mirth.

IN-FES-TIV'I-TY, n. [in and festivity.]

Want of festivity, or of cheerfulness and mirth at entertainments.

IN-FEST'U-OUS, a. [L. infestus.]

Misehievous. [Not used.] – Bacon.

IN-FEUD-A'TION, n. [in and feudum, feud.]

1. The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee. – Hale.
2. The granting of tithes to laymen. – Blackstone.

IN-FIB-U-LA'TION, n. [L. infibulo, from fibula, a clasp.]

A clasping, buckling, or confining with a small padlock. Miner.

IN-FIB-U-LA'TION, n.

The buckling up of any thing. [1841 Addenda only.]

IN'FI-DEL, a. [Fr. infidele; L. infidelis; in and fidelis, faithful.]

Unbelieving; disbelieving the inspiration of the Scriptures, or the divine institution of Christianity. The infidel writer is a great enemy to society. – Knox.

IN'FI-DEL, n.

One who disbelieves the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the divine origin of Christianity.

IN-FI-DEL'I-TY, n. [Fr. infidelité; L. infidelitas.]

1. In general, want of faith or belief; a withholding of credit.
2. Disbelief of the inspiration of the Scriptures, or the divine original of Christianity; unbelief. There is no doubt that vanity is one principal cause of infidelity. – Knox.
3. Unfaithfulness, particularly in married persons; a violation of the marriage covenant by adultery or lewdness.
4. Breach of trust; treachery; deceit; as, the infidelity of a friend or a servant. In this sense unfaithfulness is most used.

IN-FIELD', n.

A home field or lot. Scotland. [Shetland Isles. 1841]

IN-FIELD', v.t.

To inclose, as a field. [Not in good use.]

IN-FIL'TER-ED, a.

Infiltrated.

IN-FIL'TRATE, v.i. [Fr. filtrer, to filter.]

To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance.

IN-FIL'TRA-TING, ppr.

Penetrating by the pores or interstices.

IN-FIL-TRA'TION, n.

1. The act or process of entering the pores or cavities of a body.
2. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. Calcarious infiltrations, filling the cavities of other stones. – Kirwan.

IN'FI-NITE, a. [L. infinitus; in and finitus, terminated; Fr. infini; Sp. infinito.]

1. Without limits; unbounded; boundless; not circumscribed; applied to time, space, and qualities. God is infinite in duration, having neither beginning nor end of existence. He is also infinite in presence, or omnipresent, and his perfections are infinite. We also speak of infinite space.
2. That will have no end. Thus angels and men, though they have had a beginning, will exist in infinite duration.
3. That has a beginning in space, but is infinitely extended; as, a line beginning at a point, but extended indefinitely, is an infinite line.
4. Infinite is used loosely and hyperbolically for indefinitely large, immense, of great size or extent. Infinite canon, in music, a perpetual fugue.

IN'FI-NITE-LY, adv.

1. Without bounds or limits.
2. Immensely; greatly; to a great extent or degree; as, I am infinitely obliged by your condescension.

IN'FI-NITE-NESS, n.

1. Boundless extent or time, space or qualities; infinity. – Taylor.
2. Immensity; greatness.

IN-FIN-I-TES'IM-AL, a.

Indefinitely small. – Johnson. Encyc.

IN-FIN-I-TES'IM-AL, n.

An indefinitely small quantity. – Encyc.

IN-FIN-I-TES'IM-AL-LY, adv.

By infinitesimals; in indefinitely small quantities.

IN-FIN'I-TIVE, a. [L. infinitivus; Fr. infinitif.]

In grammar, the infinitive mode expresses the action of the verb, without limitation of person or number; as, to love.