Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 49

Inquiry (n.) Search for truth, information, or knoledge; examination into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical inquiries.

Inquisible (a.) Admitting judicial inquiry.

Inquisition (n.) The act of inquiring; inquiry; search; examination; inspection; investigation.

Inquisition (n.) Judicial inquiry; official examination; inquest.

Inquisition (n.) The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry.

Inquisition (n.) A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.

Inquisition (v. t.) To make inquisistion concerning; to inquire into.

Inquisitional (a.) Relating to inquiry or inquisition; inquisitorial; also, of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Inquisition.

Inquisitionary (a.) Inquisitional.

Inquisitive (a.) Disposed to ask questions, especially in matters which do not concern the inquirer.

Inquisitive (a.) Given to examination, investigation, or research; searching; curious.

Inquisitive (n.) A person who is inquisitive; one curious in research.

Inquisitively (adv.) In an inquisitive manner.

Inquisitiveness (n.) The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity.

Inquisitor (n.) An inquisitive person; one fond of asking questions.

Inquisitor (n.) One whose official duty it is to examine and inquire, as coroners, sheriffs, etc.

Inquisitor (n.) A member of the Court of Inquisition.

Inquisitorial (a.) Pertaining to inquisition; making rigorous and unfriendly inquiry; searching; as, inquisitorial power.

Inquisitorial (a.) Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices.

Inquisitorially (adv.) In an inquisitorial manner.

Inquisitorious (a.) Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial.

Inquisiturient (a.) Inquisitorial.

Inracinate (v. t.) To enroot or implant.

Inrailed (imp. & p. p.) of Inrail

Inrailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inrail

Inrail (v. t.) To rail in; to inclose or surround, as with rails.

Inreristered (imp. & p. p.) of Inregister

Inregistering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inregister

Inregister (v. t.) To register; to enter, as in a register.

Inroad (n.) The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment.

Inroaded (imp. & p. p.) of Inroad

Inroading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inroad

Inroad (v. t.) To make an inroad into; to invade.

Inroll (v. t.) See Enroll.

Inrunning (n.) The act or the place of entrance; an inlet.

Inrush (n.) A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide.

Inrush (v. i.) To rush in.

Insabbatati (n. pl.) The Waldenses; -- so called from their peculiary cut or marked sabots, or shoes.

Insafety (n.) Insecurity; danger.

Insalivation (n.) The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.

Insalubrious (a.) Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.

Insalubrity (n.) Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate.

Insalutary (a.) Not salutary or wholesome; unfavorable to health.

Insalutary (a.) Not tending to safety; productive of evil.

Insanability (n.) The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness.

Insanable (a.) Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.

Insanableness (n.) The state of being insanable; insanability; incurableness.

Insanably (adv.) In an incurable manner.

Insane (a.) Exhibiting unsoundness or disorded of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted. See Insanity, 2.

Insane (a.) Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.

Insane (a.) Causing insanity or madness.

Insane (a.) Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.

Insanely (adv.) Without reason; madly; foolishly.

Insaneness (n.) Insanity; madness.

Insaniate (v. t.) To render unsound; to make mad.

Insanie (n.) Insanity.

Insanitary (a.) Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.

Insanitation (n.) Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions.

Insanity (n.) The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.

Insanity (n.) Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

Insapory (a.) Tasteless; unsavory.

Insatiability (n.) The state or quality of being insatiable; insatiableness.

Insatiable (a.) Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.

Insatiableness (n.) Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability.

Insatiably (adv.) In an insatiable manner or degree; unappeasably.

Insatiate (a.) Insatiable; as, insatiate thirst.

Insatiately (adv.) Insatiably.

Insatiateness (n.) The state of being insatiate.

Insatiety (n.) Insatiableness.

Insatisfaction (n.) Insufficiency; emptiness.

Insatisfaction (n.) Dissatisfaction.

Insaturable (a.) Not capable of being saturated or satisfied.

Inscience (n.) Want of knowledge; ignorance.

Inscient (a.) Having little or no knowledge; ignorant; stupid; silly.

Inscient (a.) Having knowledge or insight; intelligent.

Insconce (v. t.) See Ensconce.

Inscribable (a.) Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures.

Inscribableness (n.) Quality of being inscribable.

Inscribed (imp. & p. p.) of Inscribe

Inscribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inscribe

Inscribe (v. t.) To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.

Inscribe (v. t.) To mark with letters, charakters, or words.

Inscribe (v. t.) To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.

Inscribe (v. t.) To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.

Inscribe (v. t.) To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the boundaries.

Inscriber (n.) One who inscribes.

Inscriptible (a.) Capable of being inscribed; inscribable.

Inscription (n.) The act or process of inscribing.

Inscription (n.) That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.

Inscription (n.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.

Inscription (n.) An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.

Inscriptive (a.) Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of an inscription.

Inscrolled (imp. & p. p.) of Inscroll

Inscrolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inscroll

Inscroll (v. t.) To write on a scroll; to record.

Inscrutability (n.) The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutableness.

Inscrutable (a.) Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event.

Inscrutableness (n.) The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutability.

Inscrutably (adv.) In an inscrutable manner.

Insculp (v. t.) To engrave; to carve; to sculpture.

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