Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 22
Inborn (a.) Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions. -- Cowper.
Syn: Innate; inherent; congenital; natural.
Inborn (a.) Present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development [syn: congenital, inborn, innate].
Inborn (a.) Normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good" [syn: connatural, inborn, inbred].
Inbreak (n.) Alt. of Inbreaking
Inbreaking (n.) A breaking in; inroad; invasion.
Inbreathed (imp. & p. p.) of Inbreathe..
Inbreathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inbreathe.
Inbreathe (v. t.) To infuse by breathing; to inspire. -- Coleridge.
Inbred (a.) Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. "Inbred sentiments." -- Burke.
Inbred (imp. & p. p.) of Inbreed.
Inbreeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inbreed.
Inbreed (v. t.) To produce or generate within. -- Bp. Reynolds.
To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue. -- Milton.
Inbreed (v. t.) To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i.
Inbred (a.) Produced by inbreeding [ant: outbred].
Inbred (a.) Normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of the good" [syn: connatural, inborn, inbred].
Inburning (a.) Burning within.
Her inburning wrath she gan abate. -- Spenser.
Inburnt (a.) Burnt in; ineffaceable.
Her inburnt, shamefaced thoughts. -- P. Fletcher.
Inburst (n.) A bursting in or into.
Inc (n.) A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards. [Written also ink.]
Ld (n.) The abbreviation for limited, term appended to the name of a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability; also abbreviated Ltd. It corresponds to Inc. in the United States. [Chiefly British] [abbr.]
Syn: limited company, Ltd.
Ltd (n.) A term attached to the name of a company that is organized to give its owners limited liability; it corresponds to Inc. in the United States. [British]
Syn: limited company, Ld.
INC (n.) A heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to Saddam Hussein's government of Iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of Sunni and Shiite Arabs and Kurds who hope to build a new government [syn: Iraqi National Congress, INC]
Inc, () Increment, i.e. increase by one. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have an "inc" mnemonic. Antonym: dec. [{Jargon File]
Inca (n.) An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun.
Inca (n.) pl. The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe.
Inca+dove+(Zool.),+A+small+dove+({Scardafella+inca">Inca dove (Zool.), a small dove ({Scardafella inca), native of Arizona, Lower California, and Mexico.
Inca (n.) A ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family).
Inca (n.) A member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru [syn: Inca, Inka, Incan].
Inca (n.) The small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s [syn: Inca, Inka].
Incaged (imp. & p. p.) of Incage.
Incaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incage.
Incage (v. t.) 關入籠中 To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also {encage}.] "Incaged birds." -- Shak.
Incagement (n.) Confinement in, or as in, cage. [Obs.] --Shelton.
Incalculability (n.) The quality or state of being incalculable.
Incalculable (a.) Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great ; as, his action did incalculable harm. --
In*cal"cu*la*ble*ness, n. -- In*cal"cu*la*bly, adv.
Incalculable (a.) Not capable of being computed or enumerated [ant: calculable].
Incalescence (n.) The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm. -- Sir T. Browne.
Incalescence (n.) The property of being warming [syn: calefaction, incalescence].
Incalescency (n.) Incalescence. -- Ray.
Incalescent (a.) Growing warm; increasing in heat.
Incameration (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The act or process of uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope’s domain.
Incan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Incas.
Incan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Incas or their culture or empire
Incan (n.) A member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru [syn: Inca, Inka, Incan].
Incandescence (n.) 白熱；白熱光；白熱化（如光度、強度、感情等） A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat.
Incandescence (n.) The phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised [syn: {incandescence}, {glow}].
Incandescence (n.) Light from heat.
Incandescent (a.) 熾熱的，白熱的；光亮的；燦爛的；閃閃發光的 White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.
Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might say, incandescent throughout. -- I. Taylor.
Incandescent lamp, Incandescent light, Incandescent light bulb (Elec.), A kind of lamp in which the light is produced by a thin filament of conducting material, now usually tungsten, but originally carbon, contained in a vacuum or an atmosphere of inert gas within a glass bulb, and heated to incandescence by an electric current. It was inventerd by Thomas Edison, and was once called the Edison lamp; -- called also incandescence lamp, and glowlamp. This is one of the two most common sources of electric light, the other being the fluorescent light, fluorescent lamp or fluorescent bulb.
Incandescent (a.) Emitting light as a result of being heated; "an incandescent bulb" [syn: incandescent, candent].
Incandescent (a.) Characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance; "an incandescent performance".
Incanescent (a.) Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.
Incanous (a.) (Bot.) Hoary with white pubescence.
Incantation (n.) Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must mutter at a system to attain a desired result. Not used of passwords or other explicit security features. Especially used of tricks that are so poorly documented that they must be learned from a wizard. "This compiler normally locates initialised data in the data segment, but if you mutter the right incantation they will be forced into text space."
Incantation
Spell, () Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must mutter at a system to attain a desired result. Not used of passwords or other explicit security features. Especially used of tricks that are so poorly documented that they must be learned from a {wizard}. ? This compiler normally locates initialized data in the data segment, but if you {mutter} the right incantation they will be forced into text space.
Incantation (n.) 咒文；魔法 The act or process of using formulas sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment. "Mysterious ceremony and incantation." -- Burke.
Incantation (n.) A formula of words used as above.
Incantation (n.) The repetitive invoking of old sayings, or emitting a wordy discourse with little or no meaning, to avoid serious discussion; obfuscation; as, to defend one's views with empty incantations.
Incantation (n.) A ritual recitation of words or sounds believed to have a magical effect [syn: {incantation}, {conjuration}].
Incantatory (a.) Dealing by enchantment; magical. -- Sir T. Browne.
Incanting (a.) Enchanting. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Herbert.
Incanton (v. t.) To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community. -- Addison.
Incapability (n.) The quality of being incapable; incapacity. -- Suckling.
Incapability (n.) (Law) Lack of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office.
Incapability (n.) Lack of potential for development [syn: incapability, incapableness] [ant: capability, capableness, potentiality].
Incapability (n.) The quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally [syn: incapability, incapableness] [ant: capability, capableness].
Incapable (a.) Lacking in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.
Incapable (a.) Not capable of being brought to do or perform, because morally strong or well disposed; -- used with reference to some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.
Incapable (a.) Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit; as, incapable of pain, or pleasure; incapable of stain or injury.
Incapable (a.) (Law) Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government.
Incapable (a.) (Mil.) As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.
Note: Incapable is often used elliptically.
Is not your father grown incapable of reasonable affairs? -- Shak.
Syn: Incompetent; unfit; unable; insufficient; inadequate; deficient; disqualified. See Incompetent.
Incapable (n.) One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
Incapable (a.) (Followed by `of') Lacking capacity or ability; "incapable of carrying a tune"; "he is incapable of understanding the matter"; "incapable of doing the work" [ant: capable].
Incapable (a.) Not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by `of'); "incapable of solution".
Incapable (a.) (Followed by `of') Not having the temperament or inclination for; "simply incapable of lying" [ant: capable].
Incapable (a.) Not meeting requirements; "unequal to the demands put upon him" [syn: incapable, incompetent, unequal to(p)].
Incapableness (n.) The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
Incapableness (n.) Lack of potential for development [syn: incapability, incapableness] [ant: capability, capableness, potentiality].
Incapableness (n.) The quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally [syn: incapability, incapableness] [ant: capability, capableness].
Incapably (adv.) In an incapable manner.
Incapacious (a.) Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul. -- Bp. Burnet. -- In`ca*pa"cious*ness, n.
Incapacitated (imp. & p. p.) of Incapacitate.
Incapacitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incapacitate.
Incapacitate (v. t.) To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.
Incapacitate (v. t.) (Law) To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify.
It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank,
office, function, or property. -- Milman.
Incapacitate (v.) 1: Make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer" [syn: disable, disenable, incapacitate] [ant: enable].
Incapacitate (v.) Injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident" [syn: disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap].
Incapacitation (n.) The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification. -- Burke.
Incapacities (n. pl. ) of Incapacity.
Incapacity (n.) Lack of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.
Incapacity (n.) (Law) Lack of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.
Syn: Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification; disability.
Incapacity (n.) Lack of intellectual power [ant: capacity, mental ability].
Incapacity (n.) Lack of physical or natural qualifications [ant: capacity].
Incapacity. () The want of a quality legally to do, give, transmit, or receive something.
Incapacity. () It arises from nature, from the law, or from both. From nature, when the party has not his senses, as, in the case of an idiot; from the law, as, in the case of a bastard who cannot inherit from nature and the law; as, in the case of a married woman, who cannot make contracts or a will.
Incapacity. () In general, the incapacity ceases with the cause which produces it. If the idiot should obtain his senses, or the married woman's husband die, their incapacity would be at an end.
Incapacity. () When a cause of action arises during the incapacity of a person having the right to sue, the act of limitation does not, in general, commence to run till the incapacity has been removed. But two incapacities cannot be joined in order to come within the statute.
Incapsulate (v. t.) (Physiol.) To inclose completely, as in a membrane.
Incapsulation (n.) (Physiol.) The process of becoming, or the state or condition of being, incapsulated; as, incapsulation of the ovum in the uterus.
Incarcerated (imp. & p. p.) of Incarcerate.
Incarcerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incarcerate.
Incarcerate (v. t.) 監禁 To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.
Incarcerate (v. t.) To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in.
Incarcerated hernia (Med.), Hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced. Incarcerate
Incarcerate (a.) Imprisoned. -- Dr. H. More.
Incarcerate (v.) Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand].
Incarceration (n.) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. -- Glanvill.
Incarceration (n.) (Med.) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.
Incarceration (n.) (Med.) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.
Incarceration (n.) The state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon" [syn: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement].
Incarcerator (n.) One who incarcerates.
Incarn (v. t.) To cover or invest with flesh. [R.] -- Wiseman.
Incarn (v. i.) To develop flesh. [R.] -- Wiseman.
Incarnadine (a.) Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color. [Obs.] -- Lovelace.
Incarnadine (v. t.) To dye red or crimson.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. -- Shak.
Incarnadine (v.) Make flesh-colored.
Incarnate (a.) Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.]
I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. -- Richardson.
Incarnate (a.) 人體化的，化身的；體現的； 擬人化的；典型的 Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.
Here shalt thou sit incarnate. -- Milton.
He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. -- Jortin.
Incarnate (a.) Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Incarnate (a.) [ After noun ] 化身的；人體化的 In human form.
// One survivor described his torturers as devils incarnate.
Incarnated (imp. & p. p.) of Incarnate.
Incarnating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incarnate.
Incarnate (v. t.) To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.
This essence to incarnate and imbrute, That to the height of deity aspired. -- Milton.
Incarnate (v. i.) To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.]
My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate. -- Sterne.
Incarnate (a.) Possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate].
Incarnate (a.) Invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate".
Incarnate (v.) Make concrete and real [ant: disincarnate].
Incarnate (v.) Represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate].
Incarnation (n.) 典型，化身（象徵某種品質、概念或思想等）；（神靈等的）化身 The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.
Incarnation (n.) (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.
Incarnation (n.) An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.
She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. -- Jeffrey.
The very incarnation of selfishness. -- F. W. Robertson.
Incarnation (n.) A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obs.]
Incarnation (n.) (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
Incarnation (n.) A new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning" [syn: embodiment, incarnation, avatar].
Incarnation (n.) (Christianity) The Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ.
Incarnation (n.) Time passed in a particular bodily form; "he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation".
Incarnation (n.) The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. [syn: personification, incarnation].
Incarnation, () That act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into union with his Divine Person, became man. Christ is both God and man. Human attributes and actions are predicated of him, and he of whom they are predicated is God. A Divine Person was united to a human nature (Acts 20:28; Rom. 8:32; 1 Cor. 2:8; Heb. 2:11-14; 1 Tim. 3:16; Gal. 4:4, etc.). The union is hypostatical, i.e., is personal; the two natures are not mixed or confounded, and it is perpetual.
Incarnative (a.) 肉芽生長的 Causing new flesh to grow; healing; regenerative.
Incarnative (n.) An incarnative medicine.
Incarnification (n.) The act of assuming, or state of being clothed with, flesh; incarnation.
Incased (imp. & p. p.) of Incase.
Incasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incase.
Incase (v. t.) To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid.
Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. -- Pope.
Incase (v.) Enclose in, or as if in, a case; "my feet were encased in mud" [syn: encase, incase, case].
Incasement (n.) The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased.
Incasement (n.) That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure.
Incasement (n.) The act of enclosing something in a case [syn: encasement, incasement].
Incask (v. t.) To cover with a casque or as with a casque. -- Sherwood.
Incastellated (a.) Confined or inclosed in a castle.
Incastelled (a.) (Far.) Hoofbound. -- Crabb.
Incatenation (n.) The act of linking together; enchaining. [R.] -- Goldsmith.
Incaution (n.) Lack of caution. -- Pope.
Incaution (n.) The trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger [syn: incaution, incautiousness] [ant: carefulness, caution, cautiousness].
Incautious (a.) Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark.
You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. -- Francis.
His rhetorical expressions may easily captivate any incautious reader. -- Keill.
Syn: Unwary; indiscreet; inconsiderate; imprudent; impolitic; careless; heedless; thoughtless. -- In*cau"tious*ly, adv. -- In*cau"tious*ness, n.
Incautious (a.) Lacking in caution; "an incautious remark"; "incautious talk" [ant: cautious].
Incautious (a.) Carelessly failing to exercise proper caution; "an incautious step sent her headlong down the stairs".
Incavated (a.) Made hollow; bent round or in.
Incavation (n.) Act of making hollow; also, a hollow; an exvation; a depression.
Incaved (a.) Inclosed in a cave.