Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 22

Inborn (a.) Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions.

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.

Inbred (a.) Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.

Inbred (imp. & p. p.) of Inbreed

Inbreeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inbreed

Inbreed (v. t.) To produce or generate within.

Inbreed (v. t.) To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i.

Inburning (a.) Burning within.

Inburnt (a.) Burnt in; ineffaceable.

Inburst (n.) A bursting in or into.

Inc (n.) A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards.

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.) The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe.

Incaged (imp. & p. p.) of Incage

Incaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Incage

Incage (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up.

Incagement (n.) Confinement in, or as in, cage.

Incalculability (n.) The quality or state of being incalculable.

Incalculable (a.) Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great.

Incalescence (n.) The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm.

Incalescency (n.) Incalescence.

Incalescent (a.) Growing warm; increasing in heat.

Incameration (n.) 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.

Incandescence (n.) A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat.

Incandescent (a.) White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant.

Incanescent (a.) Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.

Incanous (a.) Hoary with white pubescence.

Incantation (n.) 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.

Incantation (n.) A formula of words used as above.

Incantatory (a.) Dealing by enchantment; magical.

Incanting (a.) Enchanting.

Incanton (v. t.) To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community.

Incapability (n.) The quality of being incapable; incapacity.

Incapability (n.) Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office.

Incapable (a.) Wanting 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.) 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.) As a term of disgrace, sometimes annexed to a sentence when an officer has been cashiered and rendered incapable of serving his country.

Incapable (n.) One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.

Incapableness (n.) The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.

Incapably (adv.) In an incapable manner.

Incapacious (a.) Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul.

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.) To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify.

Incapacitation (n.) The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.

Incapacities (pl. ) of Incapacity

Incapacity (n.) Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.

Incapacity (n.) Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.

Incapsulate (v. t.) To inclose completely, as in a membrane.

Incapsulation (n.) 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.) To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.

Incarcerate (v. t.) To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in.

Incarcerate (a.) Imprisoned.

Incarceration (n.) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.

Incarceration (n.) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia.

Incarceration (n.) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

Incarcerator (n.) One who incarcerates.

Incarn (v. t.) To cover or invest with flesh.

Incarn (v. i.) To develop flesh.

Incarnadine (a.) Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color.

Incarnadine (v. t.) To dye red or crimson.

Incarnate (a.) Not in the flesh; spiritual.

Incarnate (a.) Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.

Incarnate (a.) Flesh-colored; rosy; red.

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.

Incarnate (v. i.) To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound.

Incarnation (n.) 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.) 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.

Incarnation (n.) A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation.

Incarnation (n.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Incarnative (a.) 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.

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.

Incask (v. t.) To cover with a casque or as with a casque.

Incastellated (a.) Confined or inclosed in a castle.

Incastelled (a.) Hoofbound.

Incatenation (n.) The act of linking together; enchaining.

Incaution (n.) Want of caution.

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.

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.

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