Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 65

Intime (a.) Inward; internal; intimate. [Obs.] -- Sir K. Digby.

Intimidated (imp. & p. p.) of Intimidate

Intimidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intimidate

Intimidate (v. t.) 威脅,恐嚇,脅迫 To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.

Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. -- Johnson.

Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; abash; deter; frighten; terrify; daunt; cow.

Intimidate (v.) Make timid or fearful; "Her boss intimidates her".

Intimidate (v.) To compel or deter by or as if by threats [syn: {intimidate}, {restrain}].

Intimidation (n.) 恐嚇;脅迫;威嚇 The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.

The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation. -- Paley.

Intimidation (n.) The act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something [syn: {bullying}, {intimidation}].

Intimidation (n.) The feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc..

Intimidation (n.) The feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid.

Intimidation (n.) A communication that makes you afraid to try something [syn: {determent}, {deterrence}, {intimidation}].

Intimidatory (a.) Tending or serving to intimidate.

Intinction (n.) The act of tingeing or dyeing. -- Blount.

Intinction (n.) (Eccl.) A method or practice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together.

Intinctivity (n.) The lack of the quality of coloring or tingeing other bodies. -- Kirwan.

Intine (n.) (Bot.) A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen. Intire.

Intire (adv.) Alt. of Intirely

Intirely (adv.) See {Entire}, a., {Entirely}, adv.

Intitle (v. t.) See {Entitle}.

Intituled (imp. & p. p.) of Intitule

Intituling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intitule

Intitule (v. t.) To entitle; to give a title to. -- Selden.

Into (prep.) To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.

Into (prep.) Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.

Into (prep.) Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment.

Into (prep.) Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition.

Into (prep.) Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words.

Into (prep.) Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.

Note: Compare {In}.

Intolerability (n.) The quality of being intolerable; intolerableness. [R.]

Intolerable (a.) Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.

His insolence is more intolerable Than all the princes in the land beside. -- Shak.

Intolerable (a.) Enormous.

This intolerable deal of sack. -- Shak. -- {In*tol"er*a*ble*ness}, n. -- {In*tol"er*a*bly}, adv.

Intolerable (a.) Incapable of being put up with; "an intolerable degree of sentimentality" [syn: {intolerable}, {unbearable}, {unendurable}] [ant: {tolerable}].

Intolerance (n.) Lack of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

Intolerance (n.) The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; lack of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect.

These few restrictions, I hope, are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism. -- Burke.

Intolerance (n.) Impatience with annoyances; "his intolerance of interruptions".

Intolerance (n.) Unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs [ant: {tolerance}].

Intolerancy (n.) Intolerance. -- Bailey.

Intolerant (a.) Not enduring; not able to endure.

The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses. -- Arbuthnot.

Intolerant (a.) Not tolerating difference of opinion or sentiment, especially in religious matters; refusing to allow others the enjoyment of their opinions, rights, or worship; unjustly impatient of the opinion of those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted.

Religion, harsh, intolerant, austere, Parent of manners like herself severe. -- Cowper.

Intolerant (n.) An intolerant person; a bigot.

Intolerant (a.) Unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion [ant: tolerant].

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

Intolerantly (adv.) In an intolerant manner.

Intolerantly (adv.) In an intolerant manner [ant: tolerantly]

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

Intolerated (a.) Not tolerated.

Intolerating (a.) Intolerant. [R.]

Intoleration (n.) Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.

Intombed (imp. & p. p.) of Intomb

Intombing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intomb

Intomb (v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb.

Intombment (n.) See Entombment.

Intonate (v. i.) To thunder. [Obs.] -- Bailey.

Intonated (imp. & p. p.) of Intonate

Intonating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intonate

Intonate (v. i.) (Mus.) To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.

Intonate (v. i.) To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.

Intonate (v. t.) To utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant; as, to intonate the liturgy.

Intonate (v.) Speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone; "please intonate with sadness" [syn: intonate, intone].

Intonate (v.) Recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer" [syn: chant, intone, intonate, cantillate].

Intonation (n.) A thundering; thunder. [Obs.] -- Bailey.

Intonation (n.) (Mus.) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

Intonation (n.) (Mus.) Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false.

Intonation (n.) (Mus.) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t.

Intonation (n.) The manner of speaking, especially the placement of emphasis, the cadence, and the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice while speaking.

Intonation (n.) Rise and fall of the voice pitch [syn: intonation, modulation, pitch contour].

Intonation (n.) Singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong.

Intonation (n.) The act of singing in a monotonous tone [syn: intonation, chanting].

Intonation (n.) The production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations.

Intoned (imp. & p. p.) of Intone

Intoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intone

Intone (v. t.) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service.

Intone (v. t.) To speak with a distinctive or unusual tone in the voice, or in a monotone; as, the professor intoned his lectures as though by rote.

Intone (v. i.) To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate.  -- Pope.

Intone (v.) Utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn: tone, chant, intone].

Intone (v.) Recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer" [syn: chant, intone, intonate, cantillate].

Intone (v.) Speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone; "please intonate with sadness" [syn: intonate, intone].

Intorsion (n.) A winding, bending, or twisting.

Intorsion (n.) (Bot.) The bending or twining of any part of a plant toward one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical.

Intorted (imp. & p. p.) of Intort

Intorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intort

Intort (v. t.) To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring. -- Pope.

Intortion (n.) See Intorsion.

Intoxicant (n.) That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

Intoxicant (a.) Causing [syn: intoxicant, intoxicating].

Intoxicant (n.) A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him" [syn: alcohol, alcoholic drink, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant].

Intoxicant (n.) A drug that can produce a state of intoxication.

Intoxicate (a.) Intoxicated.

Intoxicate (a.) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.

Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough. -- Chapman.

Intoxicated (imp. & p. p.) of Intoxicate

Intoxicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intoxicate

Intoxicate (v. t.)  使喝醉;使陶醉;使狂喜 [H] [+by];使中毒 To poison; to drug. -- South.

Intoxicate (v. t.) To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance.

With new wine inoxicated both. -- Milton.

Intoxicate (v. t.) To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively.

Intoxicated with the sound of those very bells. -- G. Eliot.

They are not intoxicated by military success. -- Jowett (Thuc.).

Intoxicate (v.) Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits" [syn: {elate}, {lift up}, {uplift}, {pick up}, {intoxicate}] [ant: {cast down}, {deject}, {demoralise}, {demoralize}, {depress}, {dismay}, {dispirit}, {get down}].

Intoxicate (v.) Make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) [syn: {intoxicate}, {soak}, {inebriate}].

Intoxicate (v.) Have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug.

Intoxicatedness (n.) The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness. [R.]

Intoxicating (a.) 使醉的;使興奮的 Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.

Intoxicating (a.) Causing [syn: {intoxicant}, {intoxicating}].

Intoxicating (a.) Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic [syn: {heady}, {intoxicating}].

Intoxication (n.) (Med.) 醉;陶醉;極度興奮;狂喜;【醫】中毒 A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.

Intoxication (n.) The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.

Intoxication (n.) A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.

That secret intoxication of pleasure. -- Spectator.

Syn: Drunkenness; inebriation; inebriety; ebriety; infatuation; delirium. See Drunkenness.

Intoxication (n.) The physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance [syn: poisoning, toxic condition, intoxication].

Intoxication (n.) A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [syn: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety] [ant: soberness, sobriety].

Intoxication (n.) Excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety; "the intoxication of wealth and power".

Intra- () A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.

Intraaxillary (a.) (Bot.) 腋內生的 Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.

Intracellular (a.) (Biol.) 細胞內的 Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells; intracellular enzymes. Contrasted with extracellular.

Intracellular (a.) Located or occurring within a cell or cells; "intracellular fluid" [ant: extracellular].

Intracolic (a.) (Anat.) Within the colon; as, the intracolic valve.

Intracranial (a.) Within the cranium or skull. -- Sir W. Hamilton.

Intractability (n.) The quality of being intractable; intractableness. -- Bp. Hurd.

Intractability (n.) The trait of being hard to influence or control [syn: intractability, intractableness] [ant: flexibility, tractability, tractableness].

Intractable (a.) Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.

Syn: Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable; unruly; headstrong; violent; ungovernable; unteachable. -- In*tract"a*ble*ness, n. -- In*tract"a*bly, adv.

Intractable (a.) Not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal" [ant: manipulable, tractable].

Intractile (a.) Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended. -- Bacon.

Intraday (a.) Occurring in the course of a single day.

// The market showed wide intraday fluctuations.

Intrados (n.) (Arch.) The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.

Intrados (n.) The interior curve of an arch.

Intrafoliaceous (a.) (Bot.) Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.

Intrafusion (n.) The act of pouring into a vessel; specif. (Med.), the operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood.

Intralobular (a.) (Anat.) Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins.

Intralobular (a.) Inside lobes or lobules.

Intramarginal (a.) Situated within the margin. -- Loudon.

Intramercurial (a.) (Astron.) Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial.

Intramolecular (a.) (Chem. & Physics) Between molecules; situated, or acting, between the molecules of bodies. [Obs.]

Intramolecular (a.) Being or occurring within a single molecule; as, intramolecular hydrogen bonds.

Intramolecular (a.) Within the molecule; occurring by a reaction between different parts of the same molecule.

Intramundane (a.) 現實世界內的 Being within the material world; -- opposed to extramundane.

Intramural (a.) 同一校內的;同一都市的;【解】(某一器官)壁內的 Being within the walls, as of a city.

Intramural (a.) Hence: Of or pertaining to those activities occurring within a single institution or organization, such as intramural sports involving students of a single school; an intramural debate within a professional society.

Intramural (a.) (Anat. & Med.) Being within the substance of the walls of an organ; as, intramural pregnancy.

Intramural (a.) Carried on within the bounds of an institution or community; "most of the students participated actively in the college's intramural sports program" [ant: extramural].

Intranquillity (n.) Unquietness; restlessness. -- Sir W. Temple.

Intranscalent (a.) Impervious to heat; adiathermic.

Intransgressible (a.) Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed. -- Holland.

Intransient (a.) Not transient; remaining; permanent. -- Killingbeck.

Intransigent (a.) Refusing compromise; uncompromising; inflexible; irreconcilable. -- Lond. Sat. Rev.

Intransigent (a.) Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" [syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent].

Intransigentes (n. pl.) [Sp.] (Spanish Politics) The extreme radicals; the party of the irreconcilables.

Intransitive (a.) Not passing farther; kept; detained. [R.]

And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. -- Jer. Taylor.

Intransitive (a.) (Gram.) 【語】不及物的 Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.

Note: Intransitive verbs have no passive form. Some verbs which appear at first sight to be intransitive are in reality, or were originally, transitive verbs with a reflexive or other object omitted; as, he keeps (i. e., himself) aloof from danger. Intransitive verbs may take a noun of kindred signification for a cognate object; as, he died the death of a hero; he dreamed a dream. Some intransitive verbs, by the addition of a preposition, become transitive, and so admit of a passive voice; as, the man laughed at; he was laughed at by the man.

Intransitive (a.) Designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object [ant: transitive].

Intransitive (n.) 【語】不及物動詞 A verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object [syn: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form, intransitive].

Intransitively (adv.) (Gram.) Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb.

Intransitively (adv.) In an intransitive manner; "you can use the verb `drink' Intransitively, without a direct object" [ant: transitively].

In transitu () [L.] (Law) In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu.

In transitu () During the transit, or removal from one place to another.

In transitu () The transit continues until the goods have arrived at their place of destination, and nothing remains to be done to complete the delivery; or until the goods have been delivered, before reaching their place of destination, and the person entitled takes an actual or symbolical possession. Vide Stoppage in transitu; Transitus.

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