Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 39

Infatuated (a.) Overcome by some foolish passion or desire; affected by infatuation.

Infatuation (n.) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.

Infaust (a.) Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister.

Infausting (n.) The act of making unlucky; misfortune; bad luck.

Infeasibility (n.) The state of being infeasible; impracticability.

Infeasible (a.) Not capable of being done or accomplished; impracticable.

Infeasibleness (n.) The state of quality of being infeasible; infeasibility.

Infect (v. t.) Infected. Cf. Enfect.

Infected (imp. & p. p.) of Infect

Infecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infect

Infect (v. t.) To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.

Infect (v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.

Infect (v. t.) To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious.

Infect (v. t.) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.

Infecter (n.) One who, or that which, infects.

Infectible (a.) Capable of being infected.

Infection (n.) The act or process of infecting.

Infection (n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.

Infection (n.) The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.

Infection (n.) That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.

Infection (n.) Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.

Infection (n.) Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.

Infectious (a.) Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.

Infectious (a.) Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.

Infectious (a.) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.

Infectious (a.) Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.

Infectiously (adv.) In an infectious manner.

Infectiousness (n.) The quality of being infectious.

Infective (a.) Infectious.

Infecund (a.) Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile.

Infecundity (n.) Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.

Infecundous (a.) Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive.

Infeeble (v. t.) See Enfeeble.

Infelicitous (a.) Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark; an infelicitous description; infelicitous words.

Infelicities (pl. ) of Infelicity

Infelicity (n.) The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness.

Infelicity (n.) That (as an act, word, expression, etc.) which is infelicitous; as, infelicities of speech.

Infelonious (a.) Not felonious, malignant, or criminal.

Infelt (a.) Felt inwardly; heartfelt.

Infeodation (n.) See Infeudation.

Infeoff (v. t.) See Enfeoff.

Infeoffment (n.) See Enfeoffment.

Inferred (imp. & p. p.) of Infer

Inferring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infer

Infer (v. t.) To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

Infer (v. t.) To offer, as violence.

Infer (v. t.) To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.

Infer (v. t.) To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence.

Infer (v. t.) To show; to manifest; to prove.

Inferable (a.) Capable of being inferred or deduced from premises.

Inference (n.) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

Inference (n.) That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.

Inferential (a.) Deduced or deducible by inference.

Inferentially (adv.) By way of inference.

Inferiae (n. pl.) Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.

Inferior (a.) Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

Inferior (a.) Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods.

Inferior (a.) Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus.

Inferior (a.) Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian.

Inferior (a.) Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx.

Inferior (a.) On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior.

Inferior (a.) Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.

Inferior (n.) A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.

Inferiority () The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.

Inferiorly (adv.) In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.

Infernal (a.) Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.

Infernal (a.) Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.

Infernal (n.) An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.

Infernally (adv.) In an infernal manner; diabolically.

Inferobranchian (n.) One of the Inferobranchiata.

Inferobranchiata (n. pl.) A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.

Inferobranchiate (a.) Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.

Inferrible (a.) Inferable.

Infertile (a.) Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.

Infertilely (adv.) In an infertile manner.

Infertility (n.) The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness.

Infest (v. t.) Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.

Infested (imp. & p. p.) of Infest

Infesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Infest

Infest (v. t.) To trouble greatly by numbers or by frequency of presence; to disturb; to annoy; to frequent and molest or harass; as, fleas infest dogs and cats; a sea infested with pirates.

Infesttation (n.) The act of infesting or state of being infested; molestation; vexation; annoyance.

Infester (n.) One who, or that which, infests.

Infestive (a.) Having no mirth; not festive or merry; dull; cheerless; gloomy; forlorn.

Infestivity (n.) Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness.

Infestuous (a.) Mischievous; harmful; dangerous.

Infeudation (n.) The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee.

Infeudation (n.) The granting of tithes to laymen.

Infibulation (n.) The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock.

Infibulation (n.) The act of attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation.

Infidel (a.) Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity.

Infidel (n.) One who does not believe in the prevailing religious faith; especially, one who does not believe in the divine origin and authority of Christianity; a Mohammedan; a heathen; a freethinker.

Infidelities (pl. ) of Infidelity

Infidelity (n.) Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine origin of Christianity.

Infidelity (n.) Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery.

Infidelity (n.) Breach of trust; unfaithfulness to a charge, or to moral obligation; treachery; deceit; as, the infidelity of a servant.

Infield (v. t.) To inclose, as a field.

Infield (n.) Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield.

Infield (n.) The diamond; -- opposed to outfield. See Diamond, n., 5.

Infile (v. t.) To arrange in a file or rank; to place in order.

Infilm (v. t.) To cover with a film; to coat thinly; as, to infilm one metal with another in the process of gilding; to infilm the glass of a mirror.

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