Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 49
Inquiry (n.) 問，打聽；質詢 [C] [U] [（+about/ into）]；調查 [C] [（+into）] Search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination into facts or principles; research; investigation; as, physical inquiries.
All that is wanting to the perfection of this art will undoubtedly be found, if able men . . . will make inquiry into it. -- Dryden.
Court of inquiry. See under Court.
Writ of inquiry, A writ issued in certain actions at law, where the defendant has suffered judgment to pass against him by default, in order to ascertain and assess the plaintiff's damages, where they can not readily be ascertained by mere calculation. -- Burrill.
Syn: Interrogation; interrogatory; question; query; scrutiny; investigation; research; examination.
Inquiry (n.) A search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research than it has received" [syn: inquiry, enquiry, research].
Inquiry (n.) An instance of questioning; "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present" [syn: question, inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation] [ant: answer].
Inquiry (n.) A systematic investigation of a matter of public interest [syn: inquiry, enquiry].
Inquiry, Writ of. A writ of inquiry is one issued where a judgment has been entered in a case sounding in damages, without any particular amount being ascertained; this writ is for the purpose of ascertaining the amount to which the plaintiff is entitled. Vide Writ Of Inquiry.
Inquiry (n.) (UK also Enquiry) (Question) (B1) [ C or U ] (the process of asking) 詢問，打聽 A question.
// I've been making inquiries about/into the cost of a round-the-world ticket.
// (Formal) Inquiry into the matter is pointless - no one will tell you anything.
Inquiry (n.) (Process) (C2) [ C ] 調查，查究 An official process to discover the facts about something bad that has happened.
// A judicial inquiry.
// Citizens have demanded a full inquiry into the government's handling of the epidemic.
Inquisible (a.) Admitting judicial inquiry. [Obs.] -- Sir M. Hale.
Inquisition (n.) 調查，查究 [C] [U] [（+into）]；【律】審訊；書面裁決 [C] [U] The act of inquiring; inquiry; search; examination; inspection; investigation.
As I could learn through earnest inquisition. -- Latimer.
Let not search and inquisition quail To bring again these foolish runaways. -- Shak.
Inquisition (n.) (Law) Judicial inquiry; official examination; inquest.
Inquisition (n.) (Law) The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry. -- Bouvier.
The justices in eyre had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county. -- Blackstone.
Inquisition (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.
Inquisition (v. t.) To make inquisistion concerning; to inquire into. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Inquisition (n.) A former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy.
Inquisition (n.) A severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals).
Inquisition, () practice. An examination of certain facts by a jury impanelled by the sheriff for the purpose; the instrument of writing on which their decision is made is also called an inquisition. The sheriff or coroner and the jury who make the inquisition, are called the inquest.
Inquisition, () An inquisition on an untimely death, if omitted by the coroner, may be taken by justices of gaol delivery and oyer and terminer. or of the peace, but it must be done publicly and openly, otherwise it will be quashed. Inquisitions either of the coroner, or of the other jurisdictions, are traversable. 1 Burr. 18, 19.
Inquisitional (a.) 調查的；審理的 Relating to inquiry or inquisition; inquisitorial; also, of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Inquisition.
All the inquisitional rigor . . . executed upon books. -- Milton.
Inquisitionary (a.) [R.] Inquisitional.
Inquisitive (n.) A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research. -- Sir W. Temple.
Inquisitive (a.) Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer.
A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent. -- Broome.
Inquisitive (a.) Given to examination, investigation, or research; searching; curious.
A young, inquisitive, and sprightly genius. -- I. Watts.
Syn: Inquiring; prying; curious; meddling; intrusive.
Usage: Inquisitive, Curious, Prying. Curious denotes a feeling, and inquisitive a habit. We are curious when we desire to learn something new; we are inquisitive when we set ourselves to gain it by inquiry or research. Prying implies inquisitiveness, and is more commonly used in a bad sense, as indicating a desire to penetrate into the secrets of others.
[We] curious are to hear, What happens new. -- Milton.
This folio of four pages [a newspaper], happy work!
Which not even critics criticise; that holds Inquisitive attention, while I read. -- Cowper.
Nor need we with a prying eye survey The distant skies, to find the Milky Way. -- Creech.
Inquisitive (a.) Showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow" [syn: inquisitive, speculative, questioning, wondering(a)].
Inquisitive (a.) Inquiring or appearing to inquire; "an inquiring look"; "the police are proverbially inquisitive."
Inquisitively (adv.) In an inquisitive manner.
The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. -- Boyle.
Inquisitively (adv.) With curiosity; "the baby looked around curiously" [syn: curiously, inquisitively, interrogatively].
Inquisitiveness (n.) The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity.
Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity, scrambled in at a high window. -- Johnson.
Curiosity in children nature has provided, to remove that ignorance they were born with; which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull. -- Locke.
Inquisitiveness (n.) A state of active curiosity [syn: curiousness, inquisitiveness].
Inquisitor (n.) An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions. [R.] "Inquisitors are tatlers." -- Feltham.
Inquisitor (n.) (Law) One whose official duty it is to examine and inquire, as coroners, sheriffs, etc. -- Mozley & W.
Inquisitor (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A member of the Court of Inquisition.
Inquisitor (n.) A questioner who is excessively harsh [syn: inquisitor, interrogator].
Inquisitor (n.) An official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition.
Inquisitor () A designation of sheriffs, coroners, super visum corporis, and the like, who have power to inquire into certain matters.
Inquisitor () The name, of an officer, among ecclesiastics, who is authorized to inquire into heresies, and the like, and to punish them. An ecclesiastical judge.
Inquisitorial (a.) Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power. "Illiberal and inquisitorial abuse." -- F. Blackburne.
He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorious power even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience. -- Hume.
Inquisitorial (a.) Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices. "Inquisitorial robes." -- C. Buchanan.
Inquisitorial (a.) Especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge [ant: accusatorial].
Inquisitorial (a.) Marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor; "the press was inquisitorial to the point of antagonism"; "a practical police force with true inquisitorial talents" -- Waldo Frank.
Inquisitorial (a.) Having the authority to conduct official investigations; "the inquisitorial power of the Senate."
Inquisitorially (adv.) In an inquisitorial manner.
Inquisitorious (a.) Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Inquisiturient (a.) Inquisitorial. [Obs.] "Our inquisiturient bishops." -- Milton.
Inracinate (v. t.) To enroot or implant.
Inrailed (imp. & p. p.) of Inrail.
Inrailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inrail.
Inrail (v. t.) To rail in; to inclose or surround, as with rails. -- Hooker.
Inreristered (imp. & p. p.) of Inregister.
Inregistering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inregister.
Inregister (v. t.) To register; to enter, as in a register. [R.] -- Walsh.
Inroad (n.) The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment.
The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. -- Clarendon.
With
perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne. -- Milton.
Syn: Invasion; incursion; irruption. See Invasion.
Inroaded (imp. & p. p.) of Inroad.
Inroading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inroad.
Inroad (v. t.) To make an inroad into; to invade. [Obs.]
The Saracens . . . conquered Spain, inroaded Aquitaine. -- Fuller.
Inroad (n.) An encroachment or intrusion; "they made inroads in the United States market."
Inroad (n.) An invasion or hostile attack.
Inroll (v. t.) See Enroll.
Inrunning (n.) The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. -- Tennyson.
Inrush (n.) A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide. -- G. Eliot.
Inrush (v. i.) To rush in. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Inrush (n.) An inflow; "an inpouring of spiritual comfort" [syn: inpouring, inpour, inrush].
Insabbatati (n. pl.) The Waldenses; -- so called from their peculiary cut or marked sabots, or shoes.
Insafety (n.) Insecurity; danger. [Obs.]
Insalivation (n.) (Physiol.) The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.
Insalubrious (a.) Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.
Insalubrious (a.) Detrimental to health [syn: insalubrious, unhealthful, unhealthy].
Insalubrity (n.) Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate. -- Boyle.
Insalubrity (n.) The quality of being insalubrious and debilitating [syn: insalubrity, insalubriousness] [ant: salubriousness, salubrity].
Insalutary (a.) Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health.
Insalutary (a.) Not tending to safety; productive of evil.
Insanability (n.) The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness.
Insanable (a.) Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.
Insanableness (n.) The state of being insanable; insanability; incurableness.
Insanably (adv.) In an incurable manner.
Insane (a.) （患）精神病的；精神錯亂的；瘋狂的；精神病患者的；為精神病患者而設的 Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See {Insanity}, 2.
Insane (a.) Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
Insane (a.) Causing insanity or madness. [R.]
Or have we eaten on the insaneroot That takes the reason prisoner ? -- Shak.
Insane (a.) Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
I know not which was the insane measure. -- Southey.
Insane (a.) Afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter" [ant: {sane}].
Insane (a.) Very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" [syn: {harebrained}, {insane}, {mad}].
Insane. () One deprived of the use of reason, after he has arrived at the age when he ought to have it, either by a natural defect or by accident. Domat, Lois Civ. Lib. prel. tit. 2, s. 1, n. 11.
Insanely (adv.) 瘋狂地；狂暴地 Without reason; madly; foolishly.
Insanely (adv.) In an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly" [syn: insanely, crazily, dementedly, madly] [ant: sanely].
Insanely (adv.) (Used as intensives) Extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" [syn: madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly].
Insaneness (n.) Insanity; madness.
Insaneness (n.) Obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: lunacy, madness, insaneness].
Insaniate (v. t.) To render unsound; to make mad. [Obs.] -- Feltham
Insanie (n.) Insanity. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Insanitary (a.) 不衛生的；有礙健康的 Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.
Insanitary (a.) Not sanitary or healthful; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions" [syn: unsanitary, insanitary, unhealthful] [ant: healthful, sanitary].
Insanitation (n.) Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions.
Insanity (n.) [U] 瘋狂；精神錯亂；[U]【律】（被認為行為者可免負法律責任的）精神失常 The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. -- Johnson.
Without grace The heart's insanity admits no cure. -- Cowper.
Insanity (n.) (Law) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.
Syn: Insanity, Lunacy, Madness, Derangement, Alienation, Aberration, Mania, Delirium, Frenzy, Monomania, Dementia.
Usage: Insanity is the generic term for all such diseases; lunacy has now an equal extent of meaning, though once used to denote periodical insanity; madness has the same extent, though originally referring to the rage created by the disease; derangement, alienation, are popular terms for insanity; delirium, mania, and frenzy denote excited states of the disease; dementia denotes the loss of mental power by this means; monomania is insanity upon a single subject.
Insanity (n.) Relatively permanent disorder of the mind [ant: {saneness}, {sanity}].
Insanity, () med. jur. A continued impetuosity of thought, which, for the time being, totally unfits a man for judging and acting in relation to the matter in question, with the composure requisite for the maintenance of the social relations of life. Various other definitions of this state have been given, but perhaps the subject is not susceptible of any satisfactory definition, which shall, with, precision, include all cases of insanity, and exclude all others. Ray, Med. Jur. Sec. 24, p. 50.
Insanity, () It may be considered in a threefold point of view: 1. A chronic disease, manifested by deviations from the healthy and natural state of the mind, such deviations consisting in a morbid perversion of the feelings, affections and habits. 2. Disturbances of the intellectual faculties, under the influence of which the understanding becomes susceptible of hallucinations or erroneous. impressions of a particular kind. 3. A state of mental incoherence or constant hurry and confusion of thought. Cyclo.
Practical Medicine, h. t.; Brewster's Encyclopaedia, h. t.; Observations on the Deranged Manifestations of the Mind, or Insanity, 71, 72; Merl. R,pert. mots Demenoe, Folie, Imbecilite; 6 Watts & Serg. 451.
Insanity, () The diseases included under the name of insanity have been arranged under two divisions, founded on two very different conditions of the brain. Ray, Med. Jur. ch. 1, Sec. 33.
Insanity, () The want of, or a defective development of the faculties. 1st. Idiocy, resulting from, 1. Congenital defect. 2. An obstacle to the development of the faculties, supervening in infancy. 2d. Imbecility, resulting from, 1. Congenital defects. 2. An obstacle to the development of the faculties, supervening in infancy.
Insanity, () The lesion of the faculties subsequent to their development. In this division may be classed, 1st. Mania, which is, 1. Intellectual, and is general or partial. 2. Affective and is general or, partial. 2d. Dementia, which is, 1. Consecutive to mania, or injuries of the brain. 2. Senile, or peculiar to old age.
Insanity, () There is also a disease which has acquired the name of Moral insanity. (q. v.)
Insanity, () Insanity is an excuse for the commission of acts which in others would be crimes, because the insane man has no intention; it deprives a man also from entering into any valid contract. Vide Lunacy; Non compos mentis, and Stock on the Law of Non Compotes Mentis; 1 Hagg. Cons. R. 417; 3 Addams, R. 90, 91, 180, 181; 3 Hagg. Eccl. R. 545, 598, 600; 2 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 369, 374; Bouv. Inst. Index, h. t.
Insapory (a.) Tasteless; unsavory. [R.] -- Sir T. Herbert.
Insatiability (n.) 不知足 The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness.
Eagerness for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. -- Rambler.
Insatiable (a.) 永不滿足的；貪得無厭的 [（+for/ of）] Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
"Insatiable of glory." -- Milton.
Insatiable (a.) Impossible to satisfy; "an insatiate appetite"; "an insatiable demand for old buildings to restore"; "his passion for work was unsatiable" [syn: insatiate, insatiable, unsatiable] [ant: satiate, satiated].
Insatiableness (n.) Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability.
The eye of the covetous hath a more particular insatiableness. -- Bp. Hall.
Insatiableness (n.) The quality of being insatiable.
Insatiably (adv.) In an insatiable manner or degree; unappeasably. "Insatiably covetous." -- South.
Insatiably (adv.) To an insatiable degree; "she was insatiably hungry" [syn: insatiably, unsatiably].
Insatiably (adv.) In an insatiable manner; with persistence but without satisfaction; "he clawed insatiably at the traditional precepts" [syn: insatiably, unsatiably].
Insatiate (a.) 不知足的 Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst.
Insatiately (adv.) 無法滿足地；貪得無厭地 Insatiably. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Insatiateness (n.) The state of being insatiate.
Insatiety (n.) Insatiableness. -- T. Grander.
Insatiety (in British) (n.) (Obsolete) The state of being insatiate; insatiability.
Insatiety (n.) Lack of satiety; especially : unsatisfied desire.
// Clothes they can never hope to own, changes they cannot afford to keep up with—must set up a tremendous store of insatiety in the poor and the modest-income groups. -- P. M. Gregory
Insatisfaction (n.) Insufficiency; emptiness. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Insatisfaction (n.) Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Insaturable (a.) Not capable of being saturated or satisfied.
Inscience (n.) Lack of knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.]
Inscient (a.) Having little or no knowledge; ignorant; stupid; silly. [R.] -- N. Bacon.
Inscient (a.) Having knowledge or insight; intelligent. [R.]
Gaze on, With inscient vision, toward the sun. -- Mrs. Browning.
Insconce (v. t.) See Ensconce.
Inscribable (a.) Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures.
Inscribableness (n.) Quality of being inscribable.
Inscribed (imp. & p. p.) of Inscribe.
Inscribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inscribe.
Inscribe (v. t.) 刻；雕 [（+on/ upon）]；題寫；印[（+in/ with）] To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. -- Pope.
Inscribe (v. t.) To mark with letters, charakters, or words.
O let thy once lov'd friend inscribe thy stone. -- Pope.
Inscribe (v. t.) To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend. -- Dryden.
Inscribe (v. t.) To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.
Inscribe (v. t.) (Geom.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.
Note: A line is inscribed in a circle, or in a sphere, when its two ends are in the circumference of the circle, or in the surface of the sphere. A triangle is inscribed in another triangle, when the three angles of the former are severally on the three sides of the latter. A circle is inscribed in a polygon, when it touches each side of the polygon. A sphere is inscribed in a polyhedron, when the sphere touches each boundary plane of the polyhedron. The latter figure in each case is circumscribed about the former.
Inscribe (v.) Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree" [syn: scratch, engrave, grave, inscribe].
Inscribe (v.) Register formally as a participant or member; "The party recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe, enter, enrol, recruit].
Inscribe (v.) Draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible.
Inscribe (v.) Write, engrave, or print as a lasting record.
Inscribe (v.) Mark with one's signature; "The author autographed his book" [syn: autograph, inscribe].
Inscribe (v.) Convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the message for security reasons" [syn: code, encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code].
Inscribe (v.) Address, (A work of literature) In a style less formal than a dedication.
Inscriber (n.) 記錄器 One who inscribes. -- Pownall.
Inscriptible (a.) Capable of being inscribed; inscribable.
Inscription (n.) [C] 銘刻；銘文；碑文；（鑄幣等上的）刻印文字；（書或畫的）題詞，獻詞 The act or process of inscribing.
Inscription (n.) That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.
Inscription (n.) (Anat.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.
Inscription (n.) An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.
Inscription (n.) Letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something [syn: inscription, lettering].
Inscription (n.) A short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something [syn: dedication, inscription].
Inscription (n.) The activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words.
Inscription, () civil law. An engagement which a person, who makes a solemn accusation of a crime against another, enters into, that he will suffer the same punishment, if he has accused, the other falsely, which would have been inflicted upon him had he been guilty. Code, 9, 1, 10; Id. 9, 2, 16 and 17.
Inscription, () evidence. Something written or engraved.
Inscription, () Inscriptions upon tombstones and other proper places, as rings, and the like, are held to be evidence of pedigree. Bull. N. P. 233 Cowp. 591; 10 East, R. 120 13 Ves. 145 Vin. Ab. Ev. T. b. 87: 3 Stark. Ev. 116.
Inscription (n.) Something written on another thing. Inscriptions are of many kinds, but mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some illustrious person and hand down to distant ages the record of his services and virtues. To this class of inscriptions belongs the name of John Smith, penciled on the Washington monument. Following are examples of memorial inscriptions on tombstones: (See EPITAPH.)
"In the sky my soul is found, And my body in the ground. By and by my body'll rise To my spirit in the skies, Soaring up to Heaven's gate. 1878."
"Sacred to the memory of Jeremiah Tree. Cut down May 9th, 1862, aged 27 yrs. 4 mos. and 12 ds. Indigenous."
"Affliction sore long time she boar, Phisicians was in vain, Till Deth released the dear deceased And left her a remain. Gone to join Ananias in the regions of bliss."
"The clay that rests beneath this stone As Silas Wood was widely known. Now, lying here, I ask what good It was to let me be S. Wood. O Man, let not ambition trouble you, Is the advice of Silas W."
"Richard Haymon, of Heaven. Fell to Earth Jan. 20, 1807, and had the dust brushed off him Oct. 3, 1874."
Inscriptive (a.) 銘文的 Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription.
Inscriptive (a.) Of or relating to an inscription.
Inscrolled (imp. & p. p.) of Inscroll.
Inscrolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inscroll.
Inscroll (v. t.) 載入卷冊 To write on a scroll; to record. [Written also inscrol.] -- Shak.
Inscrutability (n.) 不可理解；不可思議；不可測知 [U]；不可思議的事物 [C] The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness.
Inscrutability (n.) The quality of being impossible to investigate; "the inscrutability of the future".
Inscrutable (a.) 不可理解的；不可思議的；不可測知的 Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event.
'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable. -- Beau. & Fl.
Waiving a question so inscrutable as this. -- De Quincey.
Inscrutable (a.) Of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying].
Inscrutableness (n.) 不可理解；不可思議；不可測知[U]； 不可思議的事物 [C] The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutability.
Inscrutably (adv.) 高深莫測地 In an inscrutable manner.
Insculp (v. t.) <古> 在…上雕刻；雕塑 To engrave; to carve; to sculpture. [Obs. & R.] -- Shak.
Which he insculped in two likely stones. -- Drayton.