It is an inveterate and received opinion, that cantharides, applied to any part of the body, touch the bladder, and exulcerate it. 2. Obstinate by long continuance. Bacon. It is not every sinful violation of conscience that can quench the spirit; but it must be a long inveterate course and custom of sinning, that at length produces and ends in such a cursed effect. South. He who writes satire honestly is no more an enemy to the offender, than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies to an inveterate disease. Dryden. In a well-instituted state the executive power will never let abuses grow inveterate, or muitiply so far that it will be hard to find remedies. Szvift. To INVETERATE. v. a. [inveterer, Fr. invetero, Latin.] To fix and settle by long continuance. The vulgar conceived, that now there was an end given, and a consummation to superstitious prophecies, and to an ancient tacit expectation, which had by tradition been infused and inveterated into men's minds. Bacon. Let not atheists lay the fault of their sins upon human nature, which have their prevalence from long custom and inveterated habit. Bentley. INVETERATENESS. 7. 5. [from inveterate.] Long continuance of any thing bad; obstinacy confirmed by time. As time hath rendered him more perfect in the art, so hath the inveterateness of his malice made him more ready in the execution. Brera. Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their words. Locke. INVETERATION. n. s. [inveteratio, Lat.] reserve. I shall open to them the interior secrets of this mysterious art, without imposture or invidious Evelyn. 2. Likely to incur or to bring hatred. This is the more usual sense. Agamemnon found it an invidious affair to give the preference to any one of the Grecian heroes. Broome. Not to be further tedious, or rather invidious, these are a few causes which have contributed to the ruin of our morals. Swift. INVIDIOUSLY, adv. [from invidious.] 2. In a manner likely to provoke hatred. The spleen is introduced to invigorate the si nister side, which, dilated, would rather infirm and debilitate. Brown. INVIGORA'TION. x.s. [from invigorate.] 1. 2. The state of being invigorated. I find in myself an appetitive faculty, which is always in the very height of activity and inse goration. Nerra INVINCIBLE. adj. [invincible, French; invincibilis, Latin.] Insuperable; un conquerable; not to be subdued. I would have thought her spirits had been is vincible against all assaults of affection. Shat Should he invade their country, he would se see that invincible nation with their united forces up in arms. The spirit remains insincible. That mistake, which is the consequence of vincible errour, scarce deserves the name of wrong judgment. If an atheist had had the making of himse he would have framed a constitution that could have kept pace with his insatiable lust, been is vincible by intemperance, and have held out INVINCIBLENESS. n.s. [from invincible.) thousand years in a perpetual debauch. Bein, INVINCIBLY.adv. [from invincible.] Ir- Ye have been fearless in his righteous cause; their benefit. Neither invitations nor threats avail with these who are invincibly impeded, to apply them to Decay of Pity. INVIOLABLE. adj. [inviolable, French; inviolabilis, Latin.] 1. Not to be profaned; not to be injured. Thou, be sure, shalt give account And pass at will the boundless deep. Deyis The prophet David thinks, that the very meet. ing of men together, and their accompanying one another to the house of God, should make the bond of their love insoluble, and tie them Hecker in a league of inviolable amity. See, see, they join, embrace, and seem to kiss As if they vow'd some league inviolable. Slak, Insusceptible of hurt or wound. Th' inviolable saints In cubick phalanx firm advanc'd intire. Mil INVIOLABLY. adv. [from inviolable.] Without breach; without failure. Mere acquaintance you have none: you have drawn them all into a nearer line; and they who have conversed with you, are for ever after Dryda inviolably yours. The true profession of christianity inviolably engages all its followers to do good to all men." Spratt. INVIOLATE. adj. [inviolate, French; inviolatus, Latin.] Unhurt; uninjured; unprofaned; unpolluted; unbroken. "His fortune of arms was still inviolate. Bacon. But let inviolate truth be always dear To thee; even before friendship, truth prefer. If the past Can hope a pardon, by those mutual bonds Nature has seal'd between us, which, though I Have cancell'd, thou hast still preserv'd inviolate: I beg thy pardon. Denham's Sophy. My love your claim inviolate secures; "T is writ in fate, I can be only yours. Dryden. In all the changes of his doubtful state, His truth, like Heav'n's, was kept inviolate. Dryden. INVIOUS. adj. [invius, Latin.] Impassable; untrodden. If nothing can oppugn his love, And virtue invious ways can prove, What may not he confide to do, That brings both love and virtue too? Hudibras. To INVI'SCATE. v. a. [in and viscus, Lat.] To line; to entangle in glutin ous matter. The cameleon's food being flies, it hath in the tongue a mucous and slimy extremity, whereby, upon a sudden emission, it inviscates and intangleth those insects. Brown. INVISIBILITY. n. s. [invisibilité, French; from invisible.] The state of being invisible; imperceptibleness to sight. They may be demonstrated to be innumerable, substituting their smalness for the reason of their invisibility. Ray. INVI'SIBLE. adj. [invisible, Fr. invisibilis, Lat.] Not perceptible by the sight; not to be seen. He was invisible that hurt me so; And none invisible, but spirits, can go. Sidney. The threaden sails, Borne with th' invisible and creeping wind, Drew the huge bottoms to the furrow'd sea. Shakspeare. "T is wonderful, It seems easier to make one's self invisible to others, than to make another's thoughts visible to me, which are not visible to himself. Locke. INVISIBLY. adv. [from invisible.] Imperceptibly to the sight. Denh. Age by degrees invisibly doth creep, Nor do we seem to die, but fall asleep. INVITATION. n. s. [invitation, Fr. invitatio, Lat.] The act of inviting, bidding, or calling to any thing with ceremony and civility. That other answer'd with a lowly look, And soon the gracious invitation took. Dryden. INVITATORY. adj. [from invito, Lat.] Using invitation; containing invitation. To INVITE. v. a. [invito, Latin; inviter, French.] 1. To bid; to ask to any place, particu larly to one's own house, with intreaty and complaisance. If thou be invited of a mighty man, withdraw thyself. Ecclus. He comes invited by a younger son. Milton. When much company is invited, then be as sparing as possible of your coals. Swift. 2. To allure; to persuade; to induce by hope or pleasure. A war upon the Turks is more worthy than upon any other Gentiles, though facility and hope of success might invite some other choice. Bacon. Nor art thou such Created, or such place hast here to dwell, As may not oft invite, though spirits of heav'n, To visit thee. Milton's Paradise Lost. The liberal contributions such teachers met with, served still to invite more labourers into that work. Decay of Piety. Shady groves, that easy sleep invite, And after toilsome days a soft repose at night. Dryden's Virgil. To INVITE. v. n. [invito, Latin.] To ask or call to any thing pleasing. Milton. All things invite To peaceful counsels. INVITER. n. s. [from invite.] He who invites. They forcibly cut out abortive votes, such as their inviters and encouragers most fancied. King Charles. Honour was the aim of the guests, and interest was the scope of the inviter. Smalridge. Wines and cates the tables grace, But most the kind inviter's cheerful face. Pope. INVITINGLY. adv. [from inviting.] In such a manner as invites or allures. If he can but dress up a temptation to look invitingly, the business is done. Decay of Piety. To INUMBRATE. v. a. [inumbro, Lat.] To shade; to cover with shades. Dict. INU'NCTION. n. s. [inungo, inunctus, Lat.] The act of smearing or anointing. The wise Author of Nature hath placed on the rump two glandules, which the bird catches hold upon with her bill, and squeezes out an oily liniment, fit for the inunction of the feathers, and causing their filaments to cohere. Ray. INUNDATION. n. s. [inundation, French; inundatio, Latin.] 1. The overflow of waters; flood; deluge. Inundation, says Cowley, implies less than deluge. Her father counts it dangerous, All fountains of the deep, Milton's Par. Lost. Dryden. No swelling inundation hides the grounds, But crystal currents glide within their bounds. Gay. 2. A confluence of any kind. Many good towns, through that inundation of the Irish, were utterly wasted. Spenser. To INVOCATE. v. a. [invoco, Latin.] To invoke; to implore; to call upon; to pray to. Poor key-cold figure of a holy king! Be 't lawful, that I invocate thy ghost, Go to his temple, invocate his aid 1. The act of calling upon in prayer. Is not the name of prayer usual to signify even all the service that ever we do unto God? And that for no other cause, as I suppose, but to shew that there is in religion no acceptable duty, which devout invocation of the name of God doth not either presuppose or infer. Hooker. 2. The form of calling for the assistance Honest and fair, and in his mistress' name. Shakspeare. The proposition of Gratius is contained in a line, and that of invocation in half a line. Wase. I will strain myself to breathe out this one invocation. Howel. The whole poem is a prayer to fortune, and the invocation is divided between the two deities. Addison on Italy. I'NVOICE. n. s. [This word is perhaps corrupted from the French word en 6. To complicate; to make intricate. Some involv'd their snaky folds. Milter Syllogism is of necessary use, even to the lovers of truth, to shew them the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or invoked, discourses. 7. To blend; to mingle togher con« fusedly. Earth with hell mingle and involve. Miles INVOLUNTARILY. adv. [from invelaINVOLUNTARY. adj. [in and volar tary.] Not by choice; not spontaneously. tarius, Latin; involontaire, French.] 1. Not having the power of choice. The gath'ring number, as it moves along, The forbearance of that action, consequent to such command of the mind, is called voluntary; and whatsoever action is performed without suli a thought of the mind, is called involuntary. Locke But why, ah tell me, ah too dear! Steals down my cheek th' involuntary tear? INVOLUTION. n. s. [involutio, Latin.] 2. The state of being entangled; compl cation. voyez, send.] A catalogue of the freight. The act of involving or inwrapping. of a ship, or of the articles and price of goods sent by a factor. To INVOKE. v. a. [invoco, Latin; invoquer, French.] To call upon; to implore; to pray to; to invocate. The power I will invoke dwells in her eyes. One peculiar nation to select Sidney. From all the rest, of whom to be invok'd. Milt. Striking the Thracian harp, invokes Apollo, Leave a singed bottom all involv'd With stench and smoke. Milton. No man could miss his way to heaven for want of light; and yet so vain are they as to think they oblige the world by involving it in darkness. Decay of Picty. In a cloud involv'd, he takes his fight, Where Greeks and Trojans mix'd in mortal fight. Dryden. 2. To imply; to comprise. We cannot demonstrate these things so as to shew that the contrary necessarily involves a conTillotson. tradiction. 3. To intwist; to join. He knows his end with mine invoic`d. Milt. 4. To take in; to catch; to conjoin. The gath'ring number, as it moves along, Ines a vast involuntary throng. Pope. Sin we should hate altogether; but our hatred of it may involve the person which we should not hate at all, Spratt. All things are mixed, and causes blended by mutual involutions. Glawele 3. That which is wrapped round any thing. Great conceits are raised of the involution membranous covering called the silly-how, some times found about the heads of children. Brown's Vulgar Erresi. To INU'RE. v. a. [in and ure.] To ha bituate; to make ready or willing by practice and custom; to accustom. It had anciently with before the thing practised, now to. Because they so proudly insult, we must a little inure their ears with hearing how others, whom they more regard, are accustomed to use the self-same language with us. If there mht be added true art and learning, there would be as much difference, in maturity of judgment, between men therewith inured, and that which now men are, as between men that Hooter are now and innocents. That it may no painful work endure, It te strong labour can itself inure. Hab. Tak, England was a peaceable kingdom, and but lately inured to the mild and goodly government of the Confessor. Spenar The forward hand, inur'd to wounds, nukes N To inure Our prompt obedience. Milton's Per. Lost. They, who had been most inur'd to business, had not in their lives ever undergone so great fatigue for twenty days together. Clarenden. We may inure ourselves by custom to bear the extremities of weather without injury. Addison's Guardian. INU'REMENT. 7. s. [from inure.] Practice; habit; use; custom; frequency. If iron will acquire by mere continuance a secret appetite, and habitual inclination to the site it held, then how much more may education, being nothing else but a constant plight and inurement, induce by custom good habits into a reasonable creature? Wotton. T INURN. . a. [in and urn. 7.] To intomb; to bury. The sepulchre Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd, Shakspeare's Hamlet. Amidst the tears of Trojan dames inurn'd, And by his loyal daughters truly mourn'd. Dryden. INU'STION. n. s. [inustio, Latin.] The act of burning. INUTILE. adj. [inutile, Fr. inutilis, Lat.] Useless; unprofitable. To refer to heat and cold is a compendious and inutile speculation. Bacon's Nat. Hist. INUTILITY. n. s. [inutilité, Fr. inutilitas, Latin.] Uselessness; unprofitable To INWAʼLL. v. a. [in and wall.] To enclose or fortify with a wall. Three such towns in those places with the garrisons, would be so augmented as they would be able with little to inwall themselves strongly. Spenser on Ireland. INWARD. INWARDS.adv. [inpeans, Saxon.] } 1. Towards the internal parts; within. The parts of living creatures that be more inwards, nourish more than the outward flesh. Bacon's Natural History. The medicines which go to these magical ointments are so strong, that if they were used inwards they would kill; and therefore they work potently, though outwards. Bacon. 2. With inflection or incurvity; concavely. He stretches out his arm in sign of peace, with his breast bending inward. Dryden. 3. Into the mind or thoughts. Looking inward we are stricken dumb; looking upward we speak and prevail. Hooker. Celestial light Shine inwards, and the soul through all her pow'rs Irradiate. I'NWARD. adj. Milton. 1. Internal; placed not on the outside but within. 3: To INWRAP. v. a. [in and wrap.] Donne. 2. To perplex; to puzzle with difficulty or obscurity. The case is no sooner made than resolved: if it be made not intrapped, but plainly and perspicuously. Bacon. 3. It is doubtful whether the following examples should not be enrap or inrap, from in and rap, rapis, Latin, to ravish or transport. This pearl she gave me I do feel 't and see 't; And though 't is wonder that enwraps me thus, Yet 't is not madness. For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Shakspeare. Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold. INWROUGHT. adj. [in and wrought.] Camus, reverend sir, went footing slow, To INWREATHE. v. a. [in and creath.] Nor less the palm of peace inwreathes thy JOB. n. s. [A low word now much in use, of which I cannot tell the etymology.] 1. Petty, piddling work; a piece of chance work. 2. A low mean lucrative busy affair. He was now with his old friends, like an old favourite of a cunning minister after the job is Arbuthnot. over. No check is known to blush, no heart to throb, Save when they lose a question, or a job. Pope. Such patents as these never were granted with a view of being a jb, for the interest of a parSwift. A sudden stab with a sharp instrument. ticular person to the damage of the publick. To JOB. v. a. JOB's tears. n. s. An herb. JO'BBER. n. s. [from job.] 1. A man who sells stock in the publick funds. So cast it in the southern seas, And view it through a jobber's bill; Put on what spectacles you please, Your guinea's but a guinea still. 2. One who does chancework. JOBBERNO'WL. n. s. [most probably from jobbe, Flemish, dull, and nowl, hnol, Saxon, a head.] Loggerhead; block. head. And like the world, men's jobbernels Turn round upon their ears, the poles. Hadi. JOCKEY. n. s. [from Jack, the diminu tive of John, comes Jackey, or, as the Scotch, jockey, used for any boy, and particularly for a boy that rides racehorses.] 1. A fellow that rides horses in the race. These were the wise ancients, who heaped up greater honours on Pindar's jockies than on the poet himself. Addison 2. A man that deals in horses. 3. A cheat; a trickish fellow. To JOCKEY. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To justle by riding against one. 2. To cheat; to trick. JOCO'SE. adj. [jocosus, Latin.] Merry; waggish; given to jest. If the subject be sacred, all ludicrous turtis, and jocose or comical airs, should be excluded, lest young minds learn to trifle with solemnities of religion. Joco'SELY. adv. [from jocose.] Wag. gishly; in jest; in game. Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely, but in truth Ulysses haves with levity. Joco'SENESS. n. s. [from jocose.] Wag Joco'SITY. S never be Bra Broca not gery; merriment. A laugh there is of contempt or indignation, as well as of mirth or jocesity. JOCULAR. adj. [jocularis, Latin.] Used in jest; merry; jocose; waggish; serious: used both of men and things. These jocular slanders are often as mischievous as those of deepest design. Gov. of the Test. The satire is a dramatick poem; the stile is partly serious, and partly jocular. Good Vellum, don't be jocular. JOCULARITY. n. s. [from jocular.] Mer riment; disposition to jest. The wits of those ages were short of these of ours; when men could maintain immutable faces, and persist unalterably at the efforts of jocularity. Brown's Vulgar Errett. Merry; 1. To strike suddenly with a sharp instru- JOCUND. adj. [jocundus, Lat.] Menyi To JOB. v. n. To play the stockjobber; JoCU'NDLY.adv. [from jocund.] Merrily; |