Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 55

Insurance (n.) The sum for which life or property is insured.

Insurance (n.) A guaranty, security, or pledge; assurance.

Insurancer (n.) One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter.

Insurant (n.) The person insured.

Insured (imp. & p. p.) of Insure

Insuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Insure

Insure (v. t.) To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

Insure (v. t.) Specifically, to secure against a loss by a contingent event, on certain stipulated conditions, or at a given rate or premium; to give or to take an insurance on or for; as, a merchant insures his ship or its cargo, or both, against the dangers of the sea; goods and buildings are insured against fire or water; persons are insured against sickness, accident, or death; and sometimes hazardous debts are insured.

Insure (v. i.) To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures at three per cent.

Insurer (n.) One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.

Insurgence (n.) Alt. of Insurgency

Insurgency (n.) A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection.

Insurgent (a.) Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious.

Insurgent (n.) A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

Insurmountability (n.) The state or quality of being insurmountable.

Insurmountable (a.) Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.

Insurmountableness (n.) The state or quality of being insurmountable; insurmountability.

Insurmountably (adv.) In a manner or to a degree not to be overcome.

Insurrection (n.) A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.

Insurrection (n.) A rising in mass to oppose an enemy.

Insurrectional (a.) Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection.

Insurrectionary (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious.

Insurrectionist (n.) One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent.

Insusceptibility (n.) Want of susceptibility, or of capacity to feel or perceive.

Insusceptible (a.) Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptible to flattery.

Insusceptive (a.) Not susceptive or susceptible.

Insusurration (n.) The act of whispering into something.

Inswathed (imp. & p. p.) of Inswathe

Inswating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inswathe

Inswathe (v. t.) To wrap up; to infold; to swathe.

Intact (a.) Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire.

Intactible (a.) Alt. of Intactable

Intactable (a.) Not perceptible to the touch.

Intagliated (a.) Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone.

Intaglius (pl. ) of Intaglio

Intagli (pl. ) of Intaglio

Intaglio (n.) A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.

Intail (v. t.) See Entail, v. t.

Intake (n.) The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

Intake (n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.

Intake (n.) The quantity taken in; as, the intake of air.

Intaminated (a.) Uncontaminated.

Intangibilities (pl. ) of Intangibility

Intangibility (n.) The quality or state of being intangible; intangibleness.

Intangible (a.) Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.

Intangle (v. t.) See Entangle.

Intastable (a.) Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory.

Integer (n.) A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.

Integrability (n.) The quality of being integrable.

Integrable (a.) Capable of being integrated.

Integral (a.) Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.

Integral (a.) Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant.

Integral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or being, a whole number or undivided quantity; not fractional.

Integral (a.) Pertaining to, or proceeding by, integration; as, the integral calculus.

Integral (n.) A whole; an entire thing; a whole number; an individual.

Integral (n.) An expression which, being differentiated, will produce a given differential. See differential Differential, and Integration. Cf. Fluent.

Integrality (n.) Entireness.

Integrally (adv.) In an integral manner; wholly; completely; also, by integration.

Integrant (a.) Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral.

Integrated (imp. & p. p.) of Integrate

Integrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Integrate

Integrate (v. t.) To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

Integrate (v. t.) To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.

Integrate (v. t.) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.

Integration (n.) The act or process of making whole or entire.

Integration (n.) The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.

Integration (n.) In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.

Integrator (n.) That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined.

Integrity (n.) The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.

Integrity (n.) Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude.

Integrity (n.) Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity.

Integropallial (a.) Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells.

Integumation (n.) That part of physiology which treats of the integuments of animals and plants.

Integument (n.) That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular.

Integumentary (n.) Belonging to, or composed of, integuments.

Integumentation (n.) The act or process of covering with integuments; the state or manner of being thus covered.

Intellect (n.) The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

Intellected (a.) Endowed with intellect; having intellectual powers or capacities.

Intellection (n.) A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself.

Intellective (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, the intellect or understanding; intellectual.

Intellective (a.) Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational.

Intellective (a.) Capable of being perceived by the understanding only, not by the senses.

Intellectively (adv.) In an intellective manner.

Intellectual (a.) Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

Intellectual (a.) Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.

Intellectual (a.) Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.

Intellectual (a.) Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.

Intellectual (n.) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

Intellectualism (n.) Intellectual power; intellectuality.

Intellectualism (n.) The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.

Intellectualist (n.) One who overrates the importance of the understanding.

Intellectualist (n.) One who accepts the doctrine of intellectualism.

Intellectuality (n.) Intellectual powers; possession of intellect; quality of being intellectual.

Intellectualize (v. t.) To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss intellectually; to reduce to intellectual form; to express intellectually; to idealize.

Intellectualize (v. t.) To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.

Intellectually (adv.) In an intellectual manner.

Intelligence (n.) The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

Intelligence (n.) The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.

Intelligence (n.) Information communicated; news; notice; advice.

Intelligence (n.) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

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