They were but intruders upon the possession, during the minority of the heir: they knew those lands were the riglitful inheritance of that young Davies on Ireland. lady. Will you, a bold intruder, never learn To know your basket, and your bread discern? Dryden. She had seen a great variety of faces: they were all strangers and intruders, such as she had no acquaintance with. Locke. The whole fraternity of writers rise up in arms against every new intruder into the world of fame. Addison's Freeholder, INTRUSION. n. s. [intrusion, Fr. intrusio, Latin.]

1. The act of thrusting or forcing any thing or person into any place or state. Many excellent strains have been justled off by the intrusions of poetical fictions. Brown.

The separation of the parts of one body, upon the intrusion of another, and the change from rest to motion upon impulse, and the like, seem to have some connection. Locke. 2. Encroachment upon any person or place; unwelcome entrance; entrance without invitation or permission.

I think myself in better plight for a lender than you are, the which hath something emboldened me to this unseasoned intrusion; for they say, if money goes before, all ways do lie Shakspeare.

open.

Fregs, lice, and flies, must all his palace fill With loath'd intrusion. Milton's Par. Lost. How's this, my son? Why this intrusion? Were not my orders that I should be private? Addison's Gate, I may close, after so long an intrusion upon your meditations. Wake's Prep. for Death. 3. Voluntary and uncalled undertaking of any thing.

It will be said, I handle an art no way suitable either to my employment or fortune, and so stand charged with intrusion and impertiWotton. nency.

To INTRUST. v. a. [in and trust.] To treat with confidence; to charge with any secret commission, or thing of value: as, we intrust another quith something; or we intrust something to another.

His majesty had a solicitous care for the payment of his debts; though in such a manner, that none of the duke's officers were intrusted Clarendon. with the knowledge of it.

Receive my counsel, and securely move; Intrust thy fortune to the pow'rs above. Dryd. Are not the lives of those, who draw the sword In Rome's defence, intrusted to our care? Addis. He composed his billet-doux, and at the time appointed went to intrust it to the hands of his confidant. Arbuthnot.

INTUITION. 2. s. [intuitus, intueor, Lat-] 1. Sight of any thing: used commonly of mental view. Immediate knowledge.

At our rate of judging, St. Paul had passed for a most malicious persecutor; whereas God saw he did it ignorantly in unbelief, and upon that intuition had mercy on him.

Locke.

Government of the Tongue. The truth of these propositions we know by a bare simple intuition of the ideas, and such propositions are called self-evident. 2. Knowledge not obtained by deduction of reason, but instantaneously accompanying the ideas which are its object.

All knowledge of causes is deductive; for we know none by simple intuition, but through the

He their single virtues did survey, Dryden. By intuition in his own large breast. INTUITIVE. adj. [intuitivus, low Latin; intuitif, French.]

1. Seen by the mind immediately without the intervention of argument or testimony.

2.

Immediate perception of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, is when, by comparing them together in our minds, we see their agreement or disagreement; this therefore is called intuitive knowledge. Locke.

Lofty flights of thoughts, and almost intuitive perception of abstruse notions, or exalted discoveries of mathematical theorems, we sometimes see existent in one person. Bentley.

Seeing; not barely believing.

Faith, beginning here with a weak apprehension of things not seen, endeth with the intuitive vision of God in the world to come. Hooker. 3. Having the power of discovering truth immediately without ratiocination.

The rule of ghostly or immaterial natures, as spirits and angels, is their intuitive intellectual judgment, concerning the amiable beauty and high goodness of that object, which, with unspeakable joy and delight, doth set them on work. Hooker.

The soul receives Discursive or intuitive.

Milton.

INTUITIVELY. adv. [intuitivement, Fr.] Without deduction of reason; by immediate perception.

That our love is sound and sincere, that it cometh from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and a faith unfeigned, who can pronounce, saving only the searcher of all men's hearts, who alone intuitively doth know in this kind who are his? Hooker. God Almighty, who sees all things intuitively, does not want logical helps. Baker on Learning. INTUME'SCENCE. n. s. intumescence, INTUME'SCENCY.) Fr. intumesco, Lat.] Swell; tumour; the act or state of swelling.

According to the temper of the terreous parts at the bottom, as they are more hardly or easily moved, they variously begin, continue, or end, Brown.

their intumescencies.

This subterranean heat causes a great rarefaction and intumescencs of the water of the abyss, putting it into very great commotions, and occasions an earthquake. Woodward. INTURGE SCENCE. n. s. [in and turgesco, Latin.] Swelling; the act or state of swelling.

Not by attenuation of the upper part of the sea, but inturgescencies caused first at the bottom, and carrying the upper part of it before them. Brown's Vulgar Errours. INTU'SE. n. s. [intusus, Latin.] Bruise. She did search the swelling bruze, And having search'd the intuse deep, She bound it with her scarf.

-Spenser. To INTWI'NE. v. a. [in and twine.] 1. To twist, or wreath together.

This opinion, though false, yet intrined with a true, that the souls of men do never perish, abated the fear of death in them.

Hecker.

2. To be inserted by being wreathed or twisted.

vade,

If daring ships, and men prophane, Invade th' inviolable main.

Their piety

In sharp contest of battle found no aid Against invaders. Milton's Paradise Lost. That knowledge, like the coal from the altar, serves only to embroil and consume the sacrilegious invaders. Decay of Pisty. Were he lost, the naked empire Would be a prey expos'd to all invaders. Denham. The country about Attica was the most barren of any in Greece, through which means it happened that the natives were never expelled by the fury of invaders. Swift.

Secure, by William's care, let Britain stand; Nor dread the bold invader's hand. Prior.

Esteem and judgment with strong fancy join, To call the fair invader in;

My darling favourite inclination, too,
All, all conspiring with the foe.

2. An assailant.

3. Encroacher; intruder.

Granville.

The substance was formerly comprised in that uncompounded style, but afterwards prudently enlarged for the repelling and preventing heretical invaders. Hammond. INVALESCENCE. n. s. [invalesco, Latin.] Strength; health; force. Dict. INVALID. adj. [invalide, French, invalidus, Latin.] Weak; of no weight or cogency.

But this I urge, Admitting motion in the heav'ns, to shew Invalid, that which thee to doubt it mov'd. Milt. TO INVALIDATE. v. a. [from invalid.] To weaken; to deprive of force or cfficacy.

To invalidate such a consequence, some things might be speciously enough alleged.

Boyde Tell a man, passionately in love, that he is jilted, bring a score of witnesses of the falshood of his tnistress, and it is ten to one but three kind words of her's shall invalidate all their tes timonies.

Lack

INVALIDE. n. s. [French.] One disabled by sickness or hurts.

What beggar in the invalides, With lameness broke, with blindness smitten, Wish'd ever decently to die? Prisr INVALIDITY. n. s. [in and validity; invalidité, French.]

1. Weakness; want of cogency. 2. Want of bodily strength. This is no English meaning.

He ordered, that none who could work should be idle; and that none who could not work, by age, sickness, or invalidity, should want. Temp. INVALUABLE. adj. [in and valuable] Precious above estimation; inestimable.

The faith produced by terrour would not be so free an act as it ought, to which are annexed all the glorious and invaluable privileges of be lieving. Atterbury INVARIABLE. adj. [in and varius, Lat. invariabile, Fr.] Unchangeable; con

stant.

Being not able to design times by days, month, or years, they thought best to determine these alterations by some known and invariable siga and such did they conceive the rising and setting of the fixed stars. Breas

The rule of good and evil would not appear uniform and invariable, but different, according to men's different complexions and inclinations Atterbary INVARIABLENESS. n. s. [from invaria ble.] Immutability; constancy. INVARIABLY. adv. [from invariable.] Unchangeably; constantly.

He, who steers his course invariably by this rule, takes the surest way to make all men prave Atterbury INVA'SION. n. s. [invasion, French; m

him.

vasio, Latin.]

1. Hostile entrance upon the rights or possessions of another; hostile en croachment.

We made an invasion upon the Cherethites.

1 Sam.

Reason finds a secret grief and remorse from every invasion that sin makes upon innocente, and that must render the first entrance and ad mission of sin uneasy.

Seat

The nations of th' Ausonian shore
Shall hear the dreadful rumour, from afar,
Of arm'd invasion, and embrace the war. Dry,

William the Conqueror invaded England about the year 1060, which means this; that taking the duration from our Saviour's time 'till now, for one entire length of time, it shews at what distance this invasion was from the two extremes. Leck, 2. Attack of a disease.

What demonstrates the plague to be endemial to Egypt, is its invasion and going off at certain

seasons.

Arbuthnet.

INVA'SIVE. adj. [from invade.] Entering hostilely upon other men's possessions;

not defensive.

I must come closer to my purpose, and not make more invasive wars abroad, when, like Hannibal, I am called back to the defence of Dryden

my country.

Let our monarchs, with invasive bands, Lessen their people, and extend their lands; By gasping nations hated and obey 'd,

Lords of the desarts that their swords had made. Arbuthnot. INVECTIVE. n. s. [invective, French; invectiva, low Lat.]

1. A censure in speech or writing ; a reproachful accusation.

Plain men desiring to serve God as they ought, but being not so skilful as to unwind themselves, where the snares of glosing speech do lie to entangle them, are in mind not a little troubled, when they hear so bitter invectives against that which this church hath taught them to reverence as holy, to approve as lawful, and to observe as behoveful for the exercise of christian duty.

Hooker.

INVE'IGHER. n. s. [from inveigh.] Vehement railer.

One of these inveighers against -mercury, in seven weeks, could not cure one small herpes in the face. Wiseman.

To INVEIGLE. v. a. [invogliare, Ital. Minshew; aveugler, or enaveugler, Fr. Skinner and Junius.] To persuade to something bad or hurtful; to wheedle; to allure; to seduce.

Most false Duessa, royal richly dight, That easy was to inveigle weaker sight, Was, by her wicked arts and wily skill, Too false and strong for earthly skill or might. Fairy Queen. Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him.

Shakspeare. Yet have they many baits and guilefuls pells, To inveigle and invite th' unwary sense Of them that pass unweeting by the way. Milt. Both right able

T'inveigle and draw in the rabble. Hudibras. Those drops of prettiness, scatteringly sprinkled amongst the creatures, were designed to exalt our conceptions, not inveigle or detain our passions.

Boyle.

I leave the use of garlick to such as are in

veigled into the gout by the use of too much drinking. Temple.

The inveigling a woman, before she is come to years of discretion, should be as criminals the Seducing of her before she is ten years old. Spectator. INVEIGLER. n. s. [from inveigle.] Seducer; deceiver; allurer to ill. Being presented to the emperor for his admirable beauty, the prince clapt him up as his inveigler. Sandys.

To INVENT. v. a. [inventer, Fr. invenio, Latin.]

1. To discover; to find out; to excogi tate; to produce something not made before.

2.

By their count, which lovers books invent, The sphere of Cupid forty years contains. Spens Matter of mirth enough, though there were

none

She could devise, and thousand ways invent
To feed her foolish humour and vain jolliment.
Fairy Queen.

3.

Woe to them that invent to themselves instruments of musick. Amas.

We may invent

With what more forcible we may offend Our enemies.

Milton.

In the motion of the bones in their articulations, a twofold liquor is prepared for the inunction of their heads; both which make up the most apt mixture, for this use, that can be invented or thought upon.

Ye skilful masters of Machaon's race, Who nature's mazy intricacies trace,

By manag'd fire and late invented eyes. Blackm. But when long time the wretches thoughts re

fin'd,

When want had set an edge upon their mind, Then various cares their working thoughts employ'd,

And that which each invented, all enjoy'd.

Creech

The ship, by help of a screw, invented by Archimedes, was launched into the water. Arb To forge; to contrive falsely; to fabricate.

I never did such things as those men have maliciously invented against me. Susannah. Here is a strange figure invented, against the plain sense of the words. Stilling fleet. To feign; to make by the imagination. I would invent as bitter searching terms, With full as many signs of deadly hate, As lean-fac'd Envy in her loathsome cave. Sbak. Hercules's meeting with Pleasure and Virtue was invented by Prodicus, who lived before Sccrates, and in the first dawnings of philosophy. Addison's Spectator. 4. To light on; to meet with. Not used. Far off he wonders what them makes so glad: Or Bacchus' merry fruit they did invent, Or Cybel's frantick rites have made them mad. Spenser. INVENTER. n. s. [from inventeur, Fr.] 1. One who produces something new; a deviser of something not known before. As a translator, he was just; as an inventer, he was rich. Garth. 2. A forger. INVENTION. n.s. [invention, French; inventio, Latin.]

3. Forgery; fiction.

We hear our bloody cousins, not confessing Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers

With strange invention.

If thou can'st accuse,

Do it without invention suddenly.

4. The thing invented.

That inventive head

Her fatal image from the temple drew,
The sleeping guardians of the castle slew. Dry.
The inventive god, who never fails his part,"
Inspires the wit, when once he warms the heart.
Dryden.

2. Having the power of excogitation or fiction.

As he had an inventive brain, so there never lived any man that believed better thereof, and of himself. Raleigh.

Reason, remembrance, wit, inventive art, No nature, but immortal, can impart. Denbam. INVENTOR. n. s. [inventor, Lat.] 1. A finder out of something new. It is written likewise inventer.

We have the statue of your Columbus, that discovered the West Indies, also the inventor of ships: your Monk, that was the inventor of ordnance, and of gunpowder. Bacon.

Studious they appear
Of arts that polish life; inventors rare,
Unmindful of their maker.

Milton.

Why are these positions charged upon me as their sole author and inventor, and the reader led into a belief that they were never before main

tained by any person of virtue? Atterbury 2. A contriver; a framer. In an ill sense. In this upshot, purposes mistook, Fall'n on th' inventors heads. Shakspeare. INVENTORIALLY. adv. [from inventory, whence perhaps inventorial.] In manner of an inventory.

books,

Shall find their wardrobe's inventory. Dennt.
It were of much consequence to have such m
inventory of nature, wherein, as, on the one hand,
nothing should be wanting, so nothing repeated
on the other.
Grew's Musaum

In Persia the daughters of Eve are reckoned in the inventory of their goods and chattels; and it is usual, when a man sells a bale of silk, to toss half a dozen women into the bargain. To INVENTORY. v. a. [inventorier, Fr.] To register; to place in a catalogue. I will give out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labelled. Shakspeare

A man looks on the love of his friend as one of the richest possessions: the philosopher thought friends were to be inventoried as well as goods. Government of the Tongue, INVENTRESS. n. s. [inventrice, French; from inventor. A female that invents

The arts, with all their retinue of lesser trades, history and tradition tell us when they had thei beginning; and how many of their inventors and inventresses were deified." Burad

Cecilia came,

Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarg'd the former narrow bounds. Dry INVERSE. adj. [inverse, French; inver sus, Latin.] Inverted; reciprocal: op posed to direct. It is so called in pro portion, when the fourth term is so much greater than the third, as the second is less than the first; or so much less than the third as the second is greater than the first.

Every part of matter tends to every part of matter with a force, which is always in a direct proportion of the quantity of matter, and an inverse duplicate proportion of the distance.

'Tis just the inversion of an act of parliament: your lordship first signed it, and then it was passed amongst the lords and commons. Dryda 2. Change of place, so as that each takes

the room of the other.

To INVERT. . a. [inverto, Latin.] 1. To turn upside down; to place in contrary method or order to that which was before.

With fate inverted, shall I humbly woo? And some proud prince, in wild Numidia bort, Pray to accept me, and forget my scorn! Walker,

Ask not the cause why sullen spring So long delays her flow'rs to bear,

And winter storms invert the year. Dryden. Poesy and oratory omit things essential, and invert times and actions, to place every thing in the most affecting light. Watts. 2. To place the last first.

Yes, every poct is a fool;

By demonstration Ned can show it:
Happy, could Ned's inverted rule
Prove every fool to be a poet.

Prior.

3. To divert; to turn into another channel; to embezzle. Instead of this convert or intervert is now commonly used. Solyman charged him bitterly with inverting his treasures to his own private use, and having secret intelligence with his enemies. Knalles. INVERTEDLY. adv. [from inverted.] In contrary or reversed order.

Placing the forepart of the eye to the hole of the window of a darkened room, we have a pretty landskip of the objects abroad, invertedly painted on the paper, on the back of the eve. Derham,

To INVEST. v. a. [investir, French; investio, Latin.]

1. To dress; to clothe; to array. It has in or with before the thing superinduced or conferred.

2.

Thou with a mantle didst invest

The rising world of waters.

Milton.

Let thy eyes shine forth in their full lustre ; Invest them with thy loveliest siniles, put on Thy choicest looks. Denbam's Sophy. To place in possession of a rank or office.

When we sanctify or hallow churches, that which we do is only to testify that we make places of publick resort, that we invest God himself with them, and that we sever them Hooker. from common uses.

After the death of the other archbishop, he was invested in that high dignity, and settled in Claren bn. his palace at Lambeth.

The practice of all ages, and all countries, hath been to do honour to those who are invested with publick authority.

Atterbury.

3. To adorn; to grace: as clothes or ornaments.

sand, which, when consolidated and freed from its investient shell, is of the same shone as the cavity of the shell. Woodward. INVESTIGABLE. adj. [from investigate.] To be searched out; discoverable by rational disquisition.

Finally, in such sort they are investigable, that the knowledge of them is general; the world hath always been acquainted with them. Hooker.

In doing evil, we prefer a less good before a greater, the greatness whereof is by reason investigable, and may be known. Hooker. To INVESTIGATE. v. a. [investigo, Lat.] To search out; to find out by rational disquisition.

Investigate the variety of motions and figures made by the organs for articulation. Holder. From the present appearances investigate the powers and forces of nature, and from these account for future observations. Cheyne. INVESTIGATION. n.s. [investigation, Fr. investigatio, Lat.]

1. The act of the mind by which unknown truths are discovered.

Not only the investigation of truth, but the communication of it also, is often practised in such a method as neither agrees precisely to synthetick or analytick. Watts.

Progressive truth, the patient force of thought Investigation calm, whose silent powers Command the world.

2. Examination.

Thomson's Summer.

Your travels I hear much of my own shall never more be in a strange land, but a diligent investigation of my own territories. INVESTITURE. n. s. [French]

1. The right of giving possession of any manor, office, or benefice.

He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops, and cellation of ecclesias tical dignities within his dominions. Raleigh.

2. The act of giving possession. INVESTMENT. n. s. [in and vestment.] Dress; clothes; garment; habit.

Ophelia, do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,

Not of that die which their investments shew. Shakspeare.

You, my lord archbishop,

Whese see is by a civil peace maintained, Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath

touch'd,

Whose learning and good letters peace hath

tutor'd,

Whose white investments figure innocence,
The dove, and every blessed spirit of peace;
Wherefore do you so ill translate yourself,
Out of the speech of peace, that bears such

grace,

Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of war? Shakspeare. INVE FERACY. n. s. inveteratio, Latin.] 1. Long continuance of any thing bad; obstinacy confirmed by time.

The inveteracy of the people's prejudices com→ pelled their rulers to make use of all means for Addison. reducing them.

2. [In physick.] Long continuance or a

disease.

INVETERATE. adj. [inveteratus, Lat.] 1. Old; long established.

The custom of christians was then, and had been a long time, not to wear garlands, and therefore that undoubtedly they did offend who presumed to violate such a custom by not observ 31