Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 6

Illapsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Illapse

Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack. -- Akenside.

They sit silent . . . waiting for an illapse of the spirit. -- Jeffrey.

Illapse (v. i.) To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into. -- Cheyne.

Illaqueable (a.) Capable of being insnared or entrapped. [R.] -- Cudworth.

Illaqueated (imp. & p. p.) of Illaqueate

Illaqueating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Illaqueate

Illaqueate (v. t.) To insnare; to entrap; to entangle; to catch.

Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense. -- Coleridge.

Illaqueation (n.) The act of catching or insnaring. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.

Illaqueation (n.) A snare; a trap. -- Johnson.

Illation (n.) 推定,推論 The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; conclusion.

Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a false conception of things. -- Sir T. Browne.

Illation (n.) The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation [syn: inference, illation].

Illative (a.) 推斷的;(指詞,字等)引出推論的 Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc.

Illative conversion (Logic), A converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true.

Illative sense (Metaph.), The faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.

Illative (n.) An illative particle, as for, because.

Illative (a.) Relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; "the illative faculty of the mind" [syn: inferential, illative].

Illative (a.) Resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; "an illative conclusion"; "inferential reasoning" [syn: illative, inferential].

Illative (a.) Expressing or preceding an inference; "`therefore' is an illative word".

Illatively (adv.) 根據推論地 By inference; as an illative; in an illative manner.

Illaudable (a.) 不值得稱讚的 Not laudable; not praise-worthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation. -- Milton. -- Il*laud"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] -- Broome.

Ill-boding (a.) 不吉利的 Boding evil; inauspicious; ill-omened. "Ill-boding stars." -- Shak.

Ill-bred (a.)  無教養的;粗野的 Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.

Ill-bred (a.) (Of persons) Lacking in refinement or grace [syn: ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish].

Illecebration (n.) Allurement. [R.] -- T. Brown.

Illecebrous (a.) Alluring; attractive; enticing. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Elyot.

Illegal (a.) 不合法的,非法的;違反規則的 Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. -- Bp. Burnet.

Illegal (a.) Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move" [ant: legal].

Illegal. () Contrary to law; unlawful.

Illegal. () It is a general rule, that the law will never give its aid to a party who has entered into an illegal contract, whether the same be in direct violation of a statute, against public policy, or opposed to public morals. Nor to a contract which is fraudulent, which affects the defendant or a third person.

Illegal. () A contract in violation of a statute is absolutely void, and, however disguised, it will be set aside, for no form of expression can remove the substantial defect inherent in the nature of the transaction; the courts will investigate the real object of the contracting parties, and if that be repugnant to the law, it will vitiate the transaction.

Illegal. () Contracts against the public policy of the law, are equally void as if they were in violation of a public statute; a contract not to marry any one, is therefore illegal and void. See Void.

Illegal. () A contract against the purity of manners is also illegal; as, for example, a agreement to cohabit unlawfully with another, is therefore void; but a bond given for past cohabitation, being considered as remuneration for past injury, is binding. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3853.

Illegal. () All contracts which have for their object, or which may in their consequences, be injurious to third persons, altogether unconnected with them, are in general illegal and void. Of the first, an example may be found in the case where a sheriff's officer received a sum of money from a defendant for admitting to bail, and agreed to pay the bail, part of the money which was so exacted. 2 Burr. 924. The case of a wager between two persons, as to the character of a third, is an example of the second class. Cowp. 729; 4 Camp. 152; 1 Rawle, 42; 1 B. & A. 683. Vide Illicit; Unlawful.

Illegalities (n. pl. ) of Illegality

Illegality (n.) 違法;不法行為 The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.

Illegality (n.) Unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute [ant: legality].

Illegalized (imp. & p. p.) of Illegalize

Illegalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Illegalize

Illegalize (v. t.) 使違規 To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

Illegalize (v.) Declare illegal; outlaw; "Marijuana is criminalized in the U.S." [syn: outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise] [ant: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize].

Illegally (adv.) 不法地 In a illegal manner; unlawfully.

Illegally (adv.) In an illegal manner; "they dumped the waste illegally" [syn: {illegally}, {illicitly}, {lawlessly}] [ant: {lawfully}, {legitimately}, {licitly}].

Illegalness (n.) Illegality, unlawfulness.

Illegibility (n.) 模糊不清的 The state or quality of being illegible.

Illegibility (n.) The quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered [ant: legibility, readability].

Illegible (a.) 難讀的;難認的 Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription. -- Il*leg"i*ble*ness, n. -- Il*leg"i*bly, adv.

Illegible (a.) (Of handwriting, print, etc.) Not legible; "illegible handwriting" [ant: legible].

Illegitimacy (n.) 非法,不法;私生 The state of being illegitimate. -- Blackstone.

Illegitimacy (n.) The status of being born to parents who were not married [syn: bastardy, illegitimacy, bar sinister].

Illegitimacy (n.) Unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law [ant: legitimacy].

Illegitimate (a.) 非法的,不合法的;私生的,非婚生的 Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.

Illegitimate (a.) Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.

Illegitimate (a.) Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.

Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word.

Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union (Bot.), The fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. --Darwin.

Illegitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Illegitimate

Illegitimating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Illegitimate

Illegitimate (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.

The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. -- Bp. Burnet.

Illegitimate (a.) Contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" [syn: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawful].

Illegitimate (a.) Of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful [ant: legitimate].

Illegitimate (n.) The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson].

Illegitimate (). That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied to children born out of lawful wedlock. A bastard is sometimes called an illegitimate child.

Illegitimately (adv.) 違規地;私生地;不合理地 In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully.

Illegitimately (adv.) In a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom; "He acted illegitimately when he increased the rent fourfold" [syn: illegitimately, illicitly] [ant: lawfully, legitimately, licitly].

Illegitimately (adv.) Of biological parents not married to each other; "this child was born illegitimately" [syn: illegitimately, out of wedlock] [ant: legitimately].

Illegitimation (n.) 認為不法;認為非嫡出子

 The act of illegitimating; bastardizing.

Illegitimation (n.) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy. [Obs.]

Gardiner had performed his promise to the queen of getting her illegitimation taken off. -- Bp. Burnet.

Illegitimatize (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to bastardize.

Illesive (a.) 無害的;無惡意的;無辜的 Not injurious; harmless. [R.]

Illeviable (a.) 不可徵稅的;免稅的Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected. [R.] -- Sir M. Hale.

Illeviable. () A debt or duty that cannot or ought not to be levied. Nihil set upon a debt is a mark for illeviable.

Ill-favored (a.) Wanting beauty or attractiveness; deformed; ugly; ill-looking. -- usually used of a face; as, an ill-favored countenance.

Ill-favored and lean-fleshed. -- Gen. xli. 3. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ly, adv. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ness, n.

Ill-favored (a.) Usually used of a face; "an ill-favored countenance" [syn: ill-favored, ill-favoured].

Illiberal (a.) 吝嗇的;狹隘的,偏執的;嚴格的,拘泥的 Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." -- Mason.

Illiberal (a.) Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.

Illiberal (a.) Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin. [R.] -- Chesterfield.

Illiberal (a.) Narrow-minded about cherished opinions [syn: illiberal, intolerant].

Illiberal (a.) (Formal) (言論、思想、行為等)不自由的,不開明的,狹隘的 Limiting freedom of expression, thought, behaviour, etc..

// Illiberal policies.

Illiberalism (n.) 不開明的主義、原則 Illiberality. [R.]

Illiberality (n.) 狹隘,偏執;吝嗇;嚴格,不自由 The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. -- Bacon.

Illiberality (n.) A disposition not to be liberal (generous) with money [ant: liberality, liberalness].

Illiberalized (imp. & p. p.) of Illiberalize

Illiberalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Illiberalize

Illiberalize (v. t.) To make illiberal.

Illiberally (adv.) 吝嗇地;小氣地 In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously.

Illiberally (adv.) In a narrow-minded manner; "his illiberally biased way of thinking" [syn: intolerantly, illiberally].

Illiberalness (n.) 狹隘,偏執;吝嗇 The state of being illiberal; illiberality.

Illicit (a.) 非法的,不法的,違禁的;不正當的 Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.

One illicit . . . transaction always leads to another. -- Burke. -- Il*lic"it*ly, adv. -- Il*lic"it*ness, n.

Illicit (a.) Contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention; "an illicit association with his secretary" [ant: licit].

Illicit (a.) Contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" [syn: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawful].

Illicit. () What is unlawful what is forbidden by the law. Vide Unlawful.

Illicit. () This word is frequently used in policies of insurance, where the assured warrants against illicit trade. By illicit trade is understood that "which is made unlawful by the laws of the country to which the object is bound." The assured having entered into this warranty, is required to do no act which will expose the vessel to be legally condemned. 2 L. R. 337, 338. Vide Insurance; Trade; Warranty.

Illicitous (a.) Illicit. [R.] -- Cotgrave.

Illicium (n.) (Bot.) A genus of Asiatic and American magnoliaceous trees, having star-shaped fruit; star anise. The fruit of Illicium anisatum is used as a spice in India, and its oil is largely used in Europe for flavoring cordials, being almost identical with true oil of anise.

Illicium (n.) Anise trees: evergreen trees with aromatic leaves [syn: Illicium, genus Illicium].

Illighten (v. t.) To enlighten. [Obs.]

Illimitable (a.) 無限的;無邊際的;無窮的 Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space.

The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. -- De Quincey.

Syn: Boundless; limitless; unlimited; unbounded; immeasurable; infinite; immense; vast. -- Il*lim"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Il*lim"it*a*bly, adv.

Illimitable (a.) Without limits in extent or size or quantity; "limitless vastness of our solar system" [syn: illimitable, limitless, measureless].

Illimitation (n.) State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. -- Bp. Hall.

Illimited (a.) Not limited; interminable. -- Bp. Hall. -- Il*lim"it*ed*ness, n.

The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. -- Clarendon.

Illinition (n.) A smearing or rubbing in or on; also, that which is smeared or rubbed on, as ointment or liniment.

Illinition (n.) A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals.

Illinois (n.sing. & pl.) A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.

Illiquation (n.) The melting or dissolving of one thing into another.

Illish (a.) Somewhat ill.

Illision (n.) The act of dashing or striking against.

Illiteracies (n. pl. ) of Illiteracy

Illiteracy (n.) The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.

Illiteracy (n.) An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.

Illiteral (a.) Not literal.

Illiterate (a.) 文盲的;未受教育的;知識淺陋的;語文多差錯的 Unable to read or write; ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.

Syn: Ignorant; untaught; unlearned; unlettered; unscholary.

See Ignorant. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ly, adv. -- Il*lit"er*ate*ness, n.

Illiterate (a.) Not able to read or write [ant: literate]

Illiterate (a.) Uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate" [syn: ignorant, illiterate].

Illiterate (a.) Lacking culture, especially in language and literature [ant: literate].

Illiterate (n.) 文盲;無知的人 [C] A person unable to read [syn: illiterate, illiterate person, nonreader].

Illiterate, () This term is applied to one unacquainted with letters.

Illiterate, () When an ignorant man, unable to read, signs a deed or agreement, or makes his mark instead of a signature, and he alleges, and can provide that it was falsely read to him, he is not bound by it, in consequence of the fraud. And the same effect would result, if the deed or agreement were falsely read to a blind man, who could have read before he lost his sight, or to a foreigner who did not understand the language. For a plea of "laymen and unlettered," see Bauer v. Roth, 4 Rawle, Rep. 85 and pp. 94, 95.

Illiterate, () To induce an illiterate man, by false representations and false reading, to sign a note for a greater amount than that agreed on, is indictable as a cheat. 1 Yerg. 76. Vide, generally, 2 Nels. Ab. 946; 2 Co. 3; 11 Co. 28; Moor, 148.

Illiterature (n.) Want of learning; illiteracy.

Ill-judged (a.) Not well judged; unwise.

Ill-lived (a.) Leading a wicked life.

Ill-looking (a.) Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.

Ill-mannered (a.) Impolite; rude.

Ill-minded (a.) Ill-disposed.

Ill-natured (a.) 心地不良的;歪曲的 Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; -- of people; as, an ill-natured person; an ill-natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of good-natured.

[Narrower terms: argumentative, contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious : atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish : bristly, prickly, snappish, splenetic, waspish : cantankerous, crotchety, ornery : choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-headed, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered : crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered: cranky, fractious, irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy : crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen : feisty, touchy : {huffish, sulky: misanthropic, misanthropical : {misogynous : shirty, snorty ill-tempered or annoyed): shrewish, nagging, vixenish : surly, ugly ] Also See: unpleasant.

Ill-natured (a.) Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The ill-natured task refuse." -- Addison.

Ill-natured (a.) Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] "Ill-natured land." -- J. Philips.

Ill-natured (a.) not to one's liking; unpleasant; disagreeable. Opposite of agreeable. [Narrower terms: annoying, galling, chafing, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing; nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful, trying ].

Syn: disagreeable. -- Ill`-na"tured*ly, adv. -- Ill`-na"tured*ness, n.

Ill-natured (a.) Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition [ant: good-natured].

Illness (n.) 患病(狀態);身體不適 [U];(某種)疾病 [C] The condition of being ill, evil, or bad; badness; unfavorableness. [Obs.] "The illness of the weather." -- Locke.

Illness (n.) Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.

Illness (n.) Wrong moral conduct; wickedness.

Syn: Malady; disease; indisposition; ailment.

Usage: Illness, Sickness. Within the present century, there has been a tendency in England to use illness in the sense of a continuous disease, disorder of health, or sickness, and to confine sickness more especially to a sense of nausea, or "sickness of the stomach."

Illness (n.) Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, malady, sickness] [ant: health, wellness].

Illness (n.) (B1) [ C ] (身體或精神上的)疾病 A disease of the body or mind.

// He died at home after a long illness.

Illness (n.) (B2) [ U ] 生病 The state of being ill.

// She had five days off work due to illness.

Ill-nurtured (a.) 無教養的;無禮貌的;粗野的 Ill-bred.

Illocality (n.) Lack of locality or place. [R.] -- Cudworth.

Illogical (a.) 不合邏輯的 Ignorant or negligent of the rules of logic or correct reasoning; as, an illogical disputant; contrary of the rules of logic or sound reasoning; as, an illogical inference.

Ill-omened (a.) 不吉利的 Having unlucky omens; inauspicious. See Note under Ill, adv.

Ill-starred (a.) 運氣不佳的 Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or day.

Ill-tempered (a.) Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

Ill-tempered (a.) Unhealthy; ill-conditioned.

Ill-timed (a.) Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time.

Illtreat (v. t.) To treat cruelly or improperly; to ill use; to maltreat.

Illuded (imp. & p. p.) of Illude

Illuding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Illude

Illude (v. t.) To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.

Illumed (imp. & p. p.) of Illume

Illuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Illume

Illume (v. t.) 【詩】照明;啟發 To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine. -- Shak.

The mountain's brow, Illumed with fluid gold. -- Thomson.

Illume (v.) Make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit" [syn: light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate].

Illuminable (a.) 可照明 Capable of being illuminated.

Illuminant (n.) That which illuminates or affords light; as, gas and petroleum are illuminants.

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