Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 70

Inviolableness (n.) The quality or state of being inviolable; as, the inviolableness of divine justice.

Inviolably (adv.) Without violation.

Inviolacy (n.) The state or quality of being inviolate; as, the inviolacy of an oath.

Inviolate (a.) Alt. of Inviolated

Inviolated (a.) Not violated; uninjured; unhurt; unbroken.

Inviolated (a.) Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure.

Inviolately (adv.) In an inviolate manner.

Inviolaness (n.) The state of being inviolate.

Invious (a.) Untrodden.

Invirile (a.) Deficient in manhood; unmanly; effeminate.

Invirility (n.) Absence of virility or manhood; effeminacy.

Inviscated (imp. & p. p.) of Inviscate

Inviscating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inviscate

Inviscate (v. t.) To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.

Inviscerated (imp. & p. p.) of Inviscerate

Inviscerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inviscerate

Inviscerate (v. t.) To breed; to nourish.

Inviscerate (a.) Deep-seated; internal.

Invisibilities (pl. ) of Invisibility

Invisibility (n.) The state or quality of being invisible; also, that which is invisible.

Invisible (a.) Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible.

Invisible (n.) An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.

Invisible (n.) A Rosicrucian; -- so called because avoiding declaration of his craft.

Invisible (n.) One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church.

Invisibleness (n.) The quality or state of being invisible; invisibility.

Invisibly (adv.) In an invisible manner.

Invision (n.) Want of vision or of the power of seeing.

Invitation (n.) The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.

Invitation (n.) A document written or printed, or spoken words, /onveying the message by which one is invited.

Invitation (n.) Allurement; enticement.

Invitatory (a.) Using or containing invitations.

Invitatories (pl. ) of Invitatory

Invitatory (n.) That which invites; specifically, the invitatory psalm, or a part of it used in worship.

Invited (imp. & p. p.) of Invite

Inviting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Invite

Invite (v. t.) To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion.

Invite (v. t.) To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

Invite (v. t.) To give occasion for; as, to invite criticism.

Invite (v. i.) To give invitation.

Invitement (n.) Invitation.

Inviter (n.) One who, or that which, invites.

Invitiate (a.) Not vitiated.

Inviting (a.) Alluring; tempting; as, an inviting amusement or prospect.

Invitrifiable (a.) Not admitting of being vitrified, or converted into glass.

Invocated (imp. & p. p.) of Invocate

Invocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Invocate

Invocate (v. t.) To invoke; to call on, or for, in supplication; to implore.

Invocation (n.) The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being.

Invocation (n.) A call or summons; especially, a judicial call, demand, or order; as, the invocation of papers or evidence into court.

Invocatory (a.) Making or containing invocation; invoking.

Invoice (n.) A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed.

Invoice (n.) The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods.

Invoiced (imp. & p. p.) of Invoice

Invoicing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Invoice

Invoice (v. t.) To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice.

Invoked (imp. & p. p.) of Invoke

Invoking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Invoke

Invoke (v. t.) To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke His and blessing.

Involucel (n.) A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre.

Involucellate (a.) Furnished with involucels.

Involucella (pl. ) of Involucellum

Involucellum (n.) See Involucel.

Involucral (a.) Pertaining to, possessing, or like, an involucrum.

Involucrate (a.) Alt. of Involucrated

Involucrated (a.) Having an involucre; involucred.

Involucre (n.) A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.

Involucre (n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.

Involucre (n.) The peridium or volva of certain fungi. Called also involucrum.

Involucred (a.) Having an involucre, as umbels, heads, etc.

Involucret (n.) An involucel.

Involucra (pl. ) of Involucrum

Involucrums (pl. ) of Involucrum

Involucrum (n.) See Involucre.

Involucrum (n.) A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.

Involuntarily (adv.) In an involuntary manner; not voluntarily; not intentionally or willingly.

Involuntariness (n.) The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

Involuntary (a.) Not having will or the power of choice.

Involuntary (a.) Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers.

Involuntary (a.) Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission.

Involute (a.) Alt. of Involuted

Involuted (a.) Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation.

Involuted (a.) Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.

Involuted (a.) Rolled inward spirally.

Involute (n.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute.

Involution (n.) The act of involving or infolding.

Involution (n.) The state of being entangled or involved; complication; entanglement.

Involution (n.) That in which anything is involved, folded, or wrapped; envelope.

Involution (n.) The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.

Involution (n.) The act or process of raising a quantity to any power assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; -- the reverse of evolution.

Involution (n.) The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a', b.b', c.c', so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa' = Ob.Ob' = Oc.Oc' is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution.

Involution (n.) The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy.

Involved (imp. & p. p.) of Involve

Involving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Involve

Involve (v. t.) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

Involve (v. t.) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

Involve (v. t.) To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

Involve (v. t.) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

Involve (v. t.) To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

Involve (v. t.) To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

Involve (v. t.) To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

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