Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 65

Intime (a.) Inward; internal; intimate.

Intimidated (imp. & p. p.) of Intimidate

Intimidating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intimidate

Intimidate (v. t.) To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.

Intimidation (n.) The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.

Intimidatory (a.) Tending or serving to intimidate.

Intinction (n.) The act of tingeing or dyeing.

Intinction (n.) A method or practice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together.

Intinctivity (n.) The want of the quality of coloring or tingeing other bodies.

Intine (n.) A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

Intire (adv.) Alt. of Intirely

Intirely (adv.) See Entire, a., Entirely, adv.

Intitle (v. t.) See Entitle.

Intituled (imp. & p. p.) of Intitule

Intituling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intitule

Intitule (v. t.) To entitle; to give a title to.

Into (prep.) To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.

Into (prep.) Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.

Into (prep.) Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment.

Into (prep.) Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition.

Into (prep.) Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words.

Into (prep.) Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.

Intolerability (n.) The quality of being intolerable; intolerableness.

Intolerable (a.) Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.

Intolerable (a.) Enormous.

Intolerance (n.) Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

Intolerance (n.) The quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect.

Intolerancy (n.) Intolerance.

Intolerant (a.) Not enduring; not able to endure.

Intolerant (a.) Not tolerating difference of opinion or sentiment, especially in religious matters; refusing to allow others the enjoyment of their opinions, rights, or worship; unjustly impatient of the opinion of those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted.

Intolerant (n.) An intolerant person; a bigot.

Intolerantly (adv.) In an intolerant manner.

Intolerated (a.) Not tolerated.

Intolerating (a.) Intolerant.

Intoleration (n.) Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.

Intombed (imp. & p. p.) of Intomb

Intombing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intomb

Intomb (v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb.

Intombment (n.) See Entombment.

Intonate (v. i.) To thunder.

Intonated (imp. & p. p.) of Intonate

Intonating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intonate

Intonate (v. i.) To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.

Intonate (v. i.) To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.

Intonate (v. t.) To utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant; as, to intonate the liturgy.

Intonation (n.) A thundering; thunder.

Intonation (n.) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

Intonation (n.) Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false.

Intonation (n.) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t.

Intoned (imp. & p. p.) of Intone

Intoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intone

Intone (v. t.) To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service.

Intone (v. i.) To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate.

Intorsion (n.) A winding, bending, or twisting.

Intorsion (n.) The bending or twining of any part of a plant toward one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical.

Intorted (imp. & p. p.) of Intort

Intorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intort

Intort (v. t.) To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring.

Intortion (n.) See Intorsion.

Intoxicant (n.) That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

Intoxicate (a.) Intoxicated.

Intoxicate (a.) Overexcited, as with joy or grief.

Intoxicated (imp. & p. p.) of Intoxicate

Intoxicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intoxicate

Intoxicate (v. t.) To poison; to drug.

Intoxicate (v. t.) To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance.

Intoxicate (v. t.) To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively.

Intoxicatedness (n.) The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness.

Intoxicating (a.) Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.

Intoxication (n.) A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.

Intoxication (n.) The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.

Intoxication (n.) A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.

Intra- () A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.

Intraaxillary (a.) Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.

Intracellular (a.) Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.

Intracolic (a.) Within the colon; as, the intracolic valve.

Intracranial (a.) Within the cranium or skull.

Intractability (n.) The quality of being intractable; intractableness.

Intractable (a.) Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.

Intractile (a.) Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended.

Intrados (n.) The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.

Intrafoliaceous (a.) Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.

Intrafusion (n.) The act of pouring into a vessel; specif. (Med.), the operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood.

Intralobular (a.) Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins.

Intramarginal (a.) Situated within the margin.

Intramercurial (a.) Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial.

Intramolecular (a.) Between molecules; situated, or acting, between the molecules of bodies.

Intramundane (a.) Being within the material world; -- opposed to extramundane.

Intramural (a.) Being within the walls, as of a city.

Intramural (a.) Being within the substance of the walls of an organ; as, intramural pregnancy.

Intranquillity (n.) Unquietness; restlessness.

Intranscalent (a.) Impervious to heat; adiathermic.

Intransgressible (a.) Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed.

Intranssient (a.) Not transient; remaining; permanent.

Intransigent (a.) Refusing compromise; uncompromising; irreconcilable.

Intransigentes (n. pl.) The extreme radicals; the party of the irreconcilables.

Intransitive (a.) Not passing farther; kept; detained.

Intransitive (a.) Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.

Intransitively (adv.) Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb.

In transitu () In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu.

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