Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 35

Indoxylic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or producing, indoxyl; as, indoxylic acid.

Indraught (n.) An opening from the sea into the land; an inlet.

Indraught (n.) A draught of air or flow of water setting inward.

Indrawn (a.) Drawn in.

Indrench (v. t.) To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown.

Indris (n.) Alt. of Indri

Indri (n.) Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris.

Indubious (a.) Not dubious or doubtful; certain.

Indubious (a.) Not doubting; unsuspecting.

Indubitable (a.) Not dubitable or doubtful; too evident to admit of doubt; unquestionable; evident; apparently certain; as, an indubitable conclusion.

Indubitable (n.) That which is indubitable.

Indubitableness (n.) The state or quality of being indubitable.

Indubitably (adv.) Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt.

Indubitate (a.) Not questioned or doubtful; evident; certain.

Indubitate (v. t.) To bring into doubt; to cause to be doubted.

Induced (imp. & p. p.) of Induce

Inducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Induce

Induce (v. t.) To lead in; to introduce.

Induce (v. t.) To draw on; to overspread.

Induce (v. t.) To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.

Induce (v. t.) To bring on; to effect; to cause; as, a fever induced by fatigue or exposure.

Induce (v. t.) To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.

Induce (v. t.) To generalize or conclude as an inference from all the particulars; -- the opposite of deduce.

Inducement (n.) The act of inducing, or the state of being induced.

Inducement (n.) That which induces; a motive or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an inducement to toil.

Inducement (n.) Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.

Inducer (n.) One who, or that which, induces or incites.

Inducible (a.) Capable of being induced, caused, or made to take place.

Inducible (a.) Obtainable by induction; derivable; inferable.

Inducted (imp. & p. p.) of Induct

Inducting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Induct

Induct (v. t.) To bring in; to introduce; to usher in.

Induct (v. t.) To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies.

Inducteous (a.) Rendered electro-polar by induction, or brought into the opposite electrical state by the influence of inductive bodies.

Inductile (a.) Not ductile; incapable of being drawn into threads, as a metal; inelastic; tough.

Inductility (n.) The quality or state of being inductile.

Induction (n.) The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

Induction (n.) An introduction or introductory scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue.

Induction (n.) The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached.

Induction (n.) The introduction of a clergyman into a benefice, or of an official into a office, with appropriate acts or ceremonies; the giving actual possession of an ecclesiastical living or its temporalities.

Induction (n.) A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also successive induction.

Induction (n.) The property by which one body, having electrical or magnetic polarity, causes or induces it in another body without direct contact; an impress of electrical or magnetic force or condition from one body on another without actual contact.

Inductional (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive.

Inductive (a.) Leading or drawing; persuasive; tempting; -- usually followed by to.

Inductive (a.) Tending to induce or cause.

Inductive (a.) Leading to inferences; proceeding by, derived from, or using, induction; as, inductive reasoning.

Inductive (a.) Operating by induction; as, an inductive electrical machine.

Inductive (a.) Facilitating induction; susceptible of being acted upon by induction; as certain substances have a great inductive capacity.

Inductively (adv.) By induction or inference.

Inductometer (n.) An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the degree or rate of electrical induction.

Inductor (n.) The person who inducts another into an office or benefice.

Inductor (n.) That portion of an electrical apparatus, in which is the inducing charge or current.

Inductoriums (pl. ) of Inductorium

Inductoria (pl. ) of Inductorium

Inductorium (n.) An induction coil.

Inductric (a.) Alt. of Inductrical

Inductrical (a.) Acting by, or in a state of, induction; relating to electrical induction.

Indued (imp. & p. p.) of Indue

Induing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indue

Indue (v. t.) To put on, as clothes; to draw on.

Indue (v. t.) To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities.

Induement (n.) The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment.

Indulged (imp. & p. p.) of Indulge

Indulging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indulge

Indulge (v. t.) To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain

Indulge (v. t.) to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;

Indulge (v. t.) to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure.

Indulge (v. t.) To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.

Indulge (v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to.

Indulgement (n.) Indulgence.

Indulgence (n.) The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.

Indulgence (n.) An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification.

Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory.

Indulgence (v. t.) To grant an indulgence to.

Indulgency (n.) Indulgence.

Indulgent (a.) Prone to indulge; yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favorable; not severe; as, an indulgent parent.

Indulgential (a.) Relating to the indulgences of the Roman Catholic Church.

Indulgently (adv.) In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably.

Indulger (n.) One who indulges.

Indulgiate (v. t.) To indulge.

Induline (n.) Any one of a large series of aniline dyes, colored blue or violet, and represented by aniline violet.

Induline (n.) A dark green amorphous dyestuff, produced by the oxidation of aniline in the presence of copper or vanadium salts; -- called also aniline black.

Indult (n.) Alt. of Indulto

Indulto (n.) A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.

Indulto (n.) A duty levied on all importations.

Indument (n.) Plumage; feathers.

Induplicate (a.) Having the edges bent abruptly toward the axis; -- said of the parts of the calyx or corolla in aestivation.

Induplicate (a.) Having the edges rolled inward and then arranged about the axis without overlapping; -- said of leaves in vernation.

Induplicative (a.) Having induplicate sepals or petals in aestivation.

Induplicative (a.) Having induplicate leaves in vernation.

Indurance (n.) See Endurance.

Indurate (a.) Hardened; not soft; indurated.

Indurate (a.) Without sensibility; unfeeling; obdurate.

Indurated (imp. & p. p.) of Indurate

Indurating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indurate

Indurate (v. t.) To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.

Indurate (v. t.) To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.

Indurate (v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.

Indurated (a.) Hardened; as, indurated clay; an indurated heart.

Induration (n.) The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.

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