Yet if examin'd by severest test,

It is, at least, incautiously exprest.

Byrom. A Friendly Expostulation. There most direct were seeming most inflex'd, Most regular when seeming most perplex'd, As though perfection on disorder hung, And perfect order from incaution sprung.

IN-CEND, v. INCENDIARY, N. INCENDIARY, adj. INCE'NSE, V. I'NCENSE, n. INCENSION.

INCE'NSIVE.

INCE'NSOR.

Brookes. Universal Beauty, b. ii. Fr. Incendier; It. Incendere; Sp. Encender; Lat. Incendere,incensum, to kindle, in, and candere. See CAN

DLE.

To kindle, to heat, to inflame; (met.) to inflame, to heat, (sc.) with passion; to provoke, to irritate, to enrage; to instigate, to incite.

INCE'NSEMENT. INCENTIVE, adj. INCENTIVE, n. Incense. (Also anciently En.) Fr. Encens ; It. Incenso; Sp. Encienso; any thing (incens-um) burned;-applied to any thing, perfumed or odoriferous, burned, (sc.) in divine honour; generally, an honorary offering.

Naturall heate, by withdrawinge of moysture, is to moche incended. Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. iii. c. 3.

And by these crafty perswasions they incense emprour & kinges craftely) to persecute and sley cruelly the professors and prechers of God's worde. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 8. Verely I shal then spake vnto you huishtlie and without woordes, but I shall speake assured and manifest thinges if so be ye ask them, yea and then also the Holy Goste shal incence you what to aske & how to aske in my name. Udal. John, c. 16. And Salomon loued the Lorde, and walked in the ordinaunces of Dauid his father, saue only that he sacrificed, & offered incense vpon aulters in hylles. Bible, 1551. 3 Kings, c. 3. Some pelted him with dung and dirtie mire, others called him with open mouth incendiarie. Holland. Suetonius, p. 238. Certainly, vertue is like pretious odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crush'd: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover vertue.

Bacon. Ess. Of Simulation.

Much was the knight incenst with his lewd word,
To haue reuenged that his villany:

And thrice did lay his hand vpon his sword,

To haue him slaine.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 3. When they saw they were openly accused, they incensed both the kings, that joining together, they should make the Ephores ordinances of no effect.-North. Plutarch, p. 665. "The sorrow of his saints doth move God much : No sweeter incence then the sighs of such."

Stirling. Domes-day. The Seconde Houre. And his incensement at this moment is so implacable, that satisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and sepulcher. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act iii. sc. 4.

To the king

We gage our owne deere loue 'twixt his incensement
And your presumptions-you are pardon'd both.
Heywood. The Rape of Lucrece.

Seneca understanding by the report of those that yet somewhat regarded virtue and honour, how these lewd incensers did accuse him.-North. Plutarch, p. 1005.

But how agreeth this with that in Tacitus, which calls a musical incentive to war among the Germans, Barditus? Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 6. Selden. Illustrations.

Part incentive reed

Provide, pernicious with one touch to fire.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi. Semblably Pythia the priestess of Apollo being once come down from her three-footed fabrick, upon which she receiveth that incentive spirit of fury, remaineth quiet and in calm tranquillity.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 932.

Sean [sena] leeseth somewhat of his windiness by decocting; and (generally) subtile or windy spirits are taken off by incension or evaporation.-Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 23. Now belches molten stones and ruddy flame Incenst, or tears up mountains by the roots, Or flings a broken rock aloft in air.

Addison. Milton imitated, out of the Third Eneid. Then rising in his wrath, the monarch storm'd; Incens'd he threaten'd and his threats perform'd : The fair Chryseis to her sire was sent, With offer'd gifts to make the God relent.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. i.

Now like a maiden queen she will behold,
From her high turrets, hourly suitors come;
The East with incense, and the West with gold,
Will stand like suppliants to receive her doom.
Dryden. Annus Mirabilis.

To be extremely hated, and inhumanely persecuted without any fault committed, or just occasion offered, is greatly incensive of humane passion.-Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 10

Other Saints lie here decorated with splendid ornaments, lamps, and incensories of great cost.

Evelyn. Memoirs. Rome, Feb. 17, 1645.

The greatest obstacles, the greatest terrors that come in their way, are so far from making them quit the work they had begun, that they rather prove incentives to them to go on in it.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 3.

Whilst the cavern'd ground, With grain incentive stor'd, by sudden blaze Bursts fatal, and involves the hopes of war, In fiery whirls.

J. Philips. Cider, b. i.

The calumny is fitter to be scrawled with the midnight

chalk of incendiaries, with "No Popery," on walls and doors

of devoted houses, than to be mentioned in any civilized company.-Burke. Speech at Bristol.

Thus the writing of incendiary letters, though in itself a pernicious and alarming injury, calls for a more condign and

exemplary punishment, by the very obscurity with which the crime is committed.-Paley. Moral Philos. vol. ii. c. 9. Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the muse's flame.

Gray. Elegy wrillen in a Country Church-Yard. They, whose conduct is not animated by religious prin

ciple, are deprived of the most powerful incentive to worthy

and honourable deeds.-Blair, vol. iii. Ser. 14.

Religion, therefore, seems as ancient as humanity itself, at least of some kind of dress or fashion or other: therefore, if we can arrive at the inception of religion, veneration of a deity, and those rites, adorations, and services that result from thence, we have reason to conjecture that the inception of mankind was not long before.

Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 166. In the year 1576, February 23, Mr. Hooker's grace was given him for inceptor of arts; doctor Herbert Westphaling, a man of noted learning, being then vice-chancellor. Walton. Life of Mr. R. Hooker. You see, in speaking, or by sound, or ink, The grand inceptive caution is to think.

Byrom. Art of English Poetry.

IV. Inceptive and desitive propositions, (will form a complex argument,) as the fogs vanish as the sun rises; but the fogs have not yet begun to vanish; therefore the sun is not yet risen.-Watts. Logic, pt. iii. c. 2. s. 4.

4. Inceptives and desitives, which relate to the beginning or ending of any thing; as, the Latin tongue is not yet forgotten. No man before Orpheus wrote Greek verse. Peter, czar of Muscovy, began to civilize his nation.

Id. Ib. pt. ii. c. 2. s. 6. IN-CEREMONIOUS. Now Un. Without ceremony; without a regular, orderly, fixed or settled form or manner of doing or acting.

One holds it best to set forth God's service in a solemn state and magnificence; another approves better of a simple and inceremonious devotion.-Bp. Hall. Sol. 17.

IN-CERTAIN. INCE'RTAINLY. INCERTAINTY. INCERTITUDE.

Now more usually written uncertain. Fr. Incertaine ; Lat. Incertus.

Infirm, unsteady, insecure, indetermined; wavering, unsettled.

Thys is a thinge moste incertayne, how long they shall lyue, and a thing moste certain that they shall not liue long. Udal. James, c. 4.

Now they that with so great studie forcast those thinges that are of the worlde, hauyng neglected heauenly goodes, ought at least to be monyshed, by the incertayntie and shortnes of this life, that it is a folie to set a mannes ioye in those maner of goodes, whiche, how so euer they chaunce, yet they are sometyme sodaynely taken awaye by fortune. Id. Ib. c. 16.

Which notwithstanding is very questionable, and of incertain truth.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 7.

The Romans using then the ancient computation of the year, had such incertainty and alteration of the moneth and times, that the sacrifices and yearly Feasts came, by little and little, to seasons contrary for the purpose they were ordained for.-North. Plutarch, p. 612.

Or, because this custome, (of wearing little moones upon their shooes,) as many others, admonisheth those who are lifted up too high and take so great pride in themselves, of the incertitude and instability of this life, and of humane affaires, even by the example of the moone.

But above all, the cause of this incertitude and dificulte is partly the convexitie of the cope of heaven, and partly the diverse climates observed in the globe of the earth. Holland. Plinie, b. xvii. c. X.

Those men, when they saw that popery could not he honestly defended, nor entirely retained, would use all art fices to have the outward face of religion to remain mixed, incertain, and doubtful.

Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 155,

When Esculapius had finish'd his complaint, Pacot went on in deep morals on the incertainty of riches, wh this remarkable exclamation; O wealth! how impotent an thou.-Taller, No. 44.

This organization in the present flux and incertain state of matter, must be supported, continued, and supplied by proper and equivalent means.

Brooke. Universal Beauty, b.it. N

Thus we were brought back to our old incertitude.
Burke. A Vindication of Natural Society,

IN-CE/SSABLE.
INCE'SSANT.
INCESSANTLY.

INCE'SSANCY.

Fr. Incessible, incessan

ment; It. Incessable, in cessante; Sp. Incestá from Lat. In, and cesser. i. e. ced-ere a labore, to go away, to cease, frem, to leave, labour. Incessant,

tinuing, or desisting; continual, uninterrupted; Without leaving, quitting, stopping, disens ceaseless; unceasing.

Mine hert is wounded with thy charite,
It brenneth, it flameth incessantly.

Chaucer. The Lamentation of Marie Magle

A wondrous thing to speake, this laurel bushe fal th of browse, From skies descending down, a swarme of bees beset the bowes,

Incessant thick with noise.

Phaer. Virgill. Eneider, b

The king of Illyria also his next neighboure, bring vppon the one side of Macedon, made incessant sute that e should perfourme his promise.-Goldyng. Justine,

When king Edward knewe of the Erles landyng, and d the great repayre of people, that to hym incessantly w intermission dyd resorte, he then began to thynke business.-Hall. Edw. IV, an. 9.

Seuen of the same against the castle gate,
In strong enchantments he did closely place,
Which with incessant force and endless hate.
They batter'd day and night, and entrance did a

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b

The frosty north wind blowes a cold thicke slet
That dazzles eyes; flakes after flakes, incessantly dist
ing.
Chapman. Homer. Isab
-Whose white bones wasting lie

In some farre region, with th' incessancie
Of showres powrd downe vpon them.-Id. Ib. Odysser hå

The life of man is the incessable walk of time; wherea every moment is a step and pace to death.

Feltham, pt. ii Ra

He heard likewise those incessable strokes, but could espy the cause of them.

Shelton. Don Quixote, vol. i..
And now four days the sun had seen our woes:
Four nights the moon beheld th' incessant fire:
It seem'd as if the stars more sickly rose,
And further from the feverish North retire.
Dryden. Aunt Ma

I am the person that lately advertized I would give her shillings more than the current price for the ticket in the lottery now drawing, which is a secret I have municated to some friends, who rally me incessan that account.-Spectator, No. 191.

Thee, Pallas, skill'd in every work divine,
Foolish Arachne at the loom defied:
Incessant thence she draws the filmy twine
Memorial of her fond presumptuous pride.
West. Triumphs of the Gent

INCE'SSION. Lat. Incessus, from ince to go on. See DECESSION.

The incession or local motion of animals is made

analogy unto this figure.-Brown. Cyrus' Garden, c. J.

I'NCEST.
INCE'STUOUS.

INCE'STUOUSLY.

Fr. Inceste; It. and

Incesto; Lat. Incestus; 1 (priv.) and castus (8 INCE'STUOUSNESS. CHASTE.) Incestum ($)) Vossius) is applied to any illicit concubinage. Unchaste, impure, corrupt; applied to the 20 cubinage of persons within certain degrees.

Holland. Plutarch, p. 716. | kindred.

Thys holy man coulde not abide such incest and vnnaturalsse of mariage in a king's house, from whence especiallye oue all other places, it was conuenient that exaumple of eping the lawes should procede.-Udal. Luke, c. 3.

For these incestuouse beastly blody crueltyes) the morchye of the Persians begane to shake and fall) and rxes himself was miserably slayne of Artabanus, the last ige of the Parthens.-Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 11. Yf this were not so, theyr children, as borne incestuously d by vnlawful meanes, should be computed prophane d vncleane.-Udal. 1 Cor. c. 7.

These two sons of David met with pestilent counsell; non is advised to incest with his sister; Absalom is ised to incest with his father's concubines: that by adab, this by Achitophel: both prevaill.

Bp. Hall. Cont. Achitophel.

Great Brontes, and Astræus, that did shame
Himselfe with incest of his kin vnkend;
And huge Orion, that doth tempests still portend.

These my complaints may come

Whilst thou in th' arms of that incestuous queen, The stain of Egypt, and the shame of Rome, Shalt dallying sit, and blush to have them seen. Daniel. Octavia to Marcus Antonius.

The Britains altogether as licentious, but more absurd I preposterous in their licence, had one or many wives in nmon among ten or twelve husbands; and those for the st part incestuously.-Milton. History of England, b. ii. That the knowledge of the horrible incestuousness of this tch, should still and ever be concealed from the young iple, who thought of nothing but a fair and honest ality in this their conjunction.

Bp. Hall. Cases of Conscience, Add. Case 3.

Incest! Oh name it not!

The very mention shakes my inmost soul:
The gods are startled in their peaceful mansions,
And nature sickens at the shocking sound.

Smith. Phædra & Hippolitus, Act v.

or have we not as natural a sense or feeling of the votuous? yes, he will say, but this sense has its proper ect, virtuous love, not adulterous or incestuous: and s he think I will not say the same of his sense of the iculous?-Warburton. Ded. to the Freethinkers, Post.

INCH, v. A. S. Indsa, yndsa: ince, ynce. INCH, n. Uncia,-an ounce in weight, and an h in measure also; being the twelfth part of a ot, as the ounce is the twelfth part of a pound, omner.) The verb is,

overpowering influence, so as to stun or palsy, the faculties of the mind; to deprive them of action, of discrimination, of discernment.

Yea, and wyth thy preuie legardimaine, with the iuglinge castes, with the craftes, & inchauntments of thi subtile charmers were al nacions of the world deceiued. Bale. Image, pt. iii.

For with out shal be dogges and inchaunters, and whoremongers, and murtherers, and ydolaters, and whosoeuer loueth or maketh leasynges.-Bible, 1551. Reuelacion, c. 22. But comes vnto the place, where th' heathen knight In slumbring swoune nigh void of vitall spright, Lay couer'd with inchaunted clowde all day. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. This, Goltho, is inchantment, and so strange, So subtly false, that, whilst I tell it you, I fear the spell will my opinion change And make me think the pleasant vision true. Davenant. Gondibert, b. iii. c. 6. The understanding not being able to discern the fucus which these inchantresses with such cunning have laid upon the feature sometimes of truth, sometimes of falshood interchangeably, sentences for the most part one for the other at the first blush.

Millon. The Reason of Church Government, b. ii. c. 3. Yet still persist the memory to love Of that great Mercury of our mighty Jove: Who by the power of his inchanting tongue, Swords from the hands of threat'ning monarchs wrung. Waller. To the Countess of Carlisle in Mourning. The eighth represents unlawful ways of procuring love by precipice tempts to self-murder.-Guardian, No. 40.

Her chin, like to a stone in gold inchased, Seem'd a fair iewell wrought with cunning hand. Spenser. Brittain's Ida, c. 3. Myrmecides devised to inchase in marble, a charriot with foure horses, and a man to drive the same, in so small a roume, that a poore flie might cover all with her little wings. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvi. c. 5.

This excellent person [Jesus Christ] [was] to himself perfectly known by the inchasing his humane nature in the bosom and heart of God, and by the fulness of the spirit of God.-Bp. Taylor. Ductor Dubitantium, b. i. c. 4.

IN-CHA'STITY. Gifford produces the example below in a note on Every Man in his Humour. See UNCHASTE.

Want of chastity; incontinence.

Tis not the act that ties the marriage knot,
It is the will: then must I all my life,

Be stained with inchastitie's foul blot.

Hannay. Sheretine & Mariana. IN-CHEER, v. See ENCHEAR, and CHEER. To enliven, gladden, exhilarate, hearten, en

courage.

Whereby the all-incheering majesty

Shall come to shine at full in all her parts,
And spread her beams of comfort equally
As being all alike to like deserts.

Daniel. A Panegyrick to the King's Majesty.

I'NCHOATE, v. I'NCHOATE, adj.

I'NCHOATELY.

Lat. Inchoare; it is disputed whether to be written Incohare, or Inchoare: the advocates for the latter, derive from Chaos, the beginning of all things; for the former, from the ancient Cohum, chaos aut mundus. See Vossius.

INCHOA'TION.

I'NCHOATIVE.

To begin, to commence, to make a beginning or commencement; to make a first attempt or effort.

For verbes in sco, dooe not signifie beginnyng, nor shoulde not be called inchoatiues (as Priscianus and other grammarians wolde haue them called) but rather continuatives, as the whiche betoken increasement.-Udal. Flowres, fol. 144.

But all natural causes failing here, since their bodies are not pure enough to waft them up the quiet regions of the uninfested ether; and the higher congruity of life, being yet but imperfectly inchoated, they would be detained prisoners here below by the chains of their unhappy natures, were there not some extraordinaryinterposure for their rescue and inlargement.-Glanvill. Pre-existence of Souls, c. 14.

A candle out of a musket will pierce through an inchrd.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 18.

Cal. All the infections that the sunne sucks vp From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By ynch-meale a disease.

Shakespeare. Tempest, Act ii. sc. 2. Gone already

Ynch-thick, knee-deepe; ore head and ears a fork'd one.
Id. Winter's Tale, Acti. sc. 2.

Now Turnus doubts, and yet disdains to yield;
But with slow paces measures back the field.
And inches to the walls, where Tyber's tide,
Washing the camp, defends the weaker side.

Dryden. Virgil. Eneis, b. ix.

Sosyb. My king has in the camp a younger brother, Valiant they say, but very popular : He gets too far into the souldier's grace; And inches out my master.-Id. Cleomenes, Act ii. sc. 2. One of our men in the midst of these hardships was found ilty of theft, and condemned for the same, to have three ows from each man in the ship, with a two-inch and a If rope on his bare back.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1686. We can, by art, make a small object appear distinct, when is in reality not above half an inch from the eye: either using a single microscope, or by looking through a small n-hole in a card.-Reid. Enquiry, c. 6. s. 22.

A certain Jew, that by order of the Jews called him into Italy, tells us, that upon conversing with him, he found him to be an inchanter, and very silly.

Jortin. Remarks on Ecclesiastical History. Fotis, the inferior priestess in the magic rites of the inchantress, Pamphile, enjoining him silence, says, &c. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iii. s. 4. See EN.

IN-CHARGE.

To load; to place, put or lay, to impose, a load, weight, or burthen: (met.) to impose the weight or burthen of a commission, trust, or duty.

For humane nature (which the angels are better acquainted with then we, as being incharged with the conducting it to spiritual improvements) is well charactered in the stiffness and indocility of the pharisees.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Address to the Court. IN-CHARITY. See UNCHARITABLE. Want of charity; want of feeling for the wants or sufferings of others; or of a desire to relieve : want of love for our fellow-creatures, of goodwill, or benevolence.

Who, but thou onely can make our souls sensible of thy of this our dear redemption in the great work of our inchoate regeneration.-Bp. Hall. The Remedy of Prophanenesse.

Whether as fully just by thy gracious imputation, or as inchoately just by thy gracious inoperation, we are in both, thy Dove, thy undefiled.-Id. Beautie & Unitie of the Church.

Finding therefore the inconueniencies and difficulties in the prosecution of a warre, he cast with himselfe how to compasse two things, The one, how by the declaration, and inchoution of a warre, to make his profit. The other, &c. Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 99.

Notwithstanding this, the Queens of France are usually admitted to the Regency during the minority of the King, which is at the age of fourteen years, inchoative; untill which term they with their counsell administer the public affairs of state without equall or controule.

Evelyn. The State of France.

We must here distinguish of a two-fold destruction of sin; 1. In respect of a total abolition: 2. In respect to a sincere, though imperfect inchoation.-South, vol. i. Ser. 11.

INCIDE, v. INCI'SE, V.

INCI'SION.

INCI'SIVE.

INCI'SOR.

INCI'SURE.

Fr. Inciser, incision; It. Incidere, incisione; Sp. Incision; Lat. Incidere, incisum, to cut into, (in, and cædere,) which Julius Scaliger derives from the Gr. Kaw-ev, to cut down. To cut into; to carve, to engrave, to inscribe. But I must be incis'd first, cut and open'd, My heart, and handsomely, ta'n from me.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Mad Lover, Act ii. sc. 1. Men. Put to the doors awhile there; ye can incise To a hair's breadth without defacing.-Id. Ib. Act iii. sc.1. Those [perfections] are too numerous for one elegy, And 'tis too great to be express'd by me; Let others carve the rest; it shall suffice,

I on thy grave this epitaph incise.

Carew. On the Death of Dr. Donne.

When as Nature teaches us to divide any limb from the body to the saving of its fellows, though it be the maiming and deformity of the whole; how much more is it her

doctrine to sever by incision, not a true limb so much, though that be lawful, but an adherent, a sore, the gangreen of a limb, to the recovery of a whole man? Milton. Tetrachordon.

The fig tree sendeth from it a sharpe, piercing, and incisive spirit.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 608.

They put into the stomak those things that be attenuant, incisive, and sharp to provoke and stir up the appetite. Id. Ib. p. 642. There be of them, that have not the bodie divided entire, one part from the other by these incisures, cuts, and wrinkles.-Id. Plinie, b. xi. c. 10.

Some bodies taken into that of a man are deoppilating, others inciding, resolving.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 293.

The strong table groans

Beneath the smoaking surloin, stretch'd immense
From side to side; in which, with desperate knife,
They deep incision make, and talk the while
Of England's glory, ne'er to be defac'd
While hence they borrow vigour.-Thomson. Autumn.
Around the centre Fate's bright trophies lay,
Probes, saws, incision-knives, and tools to slay.
Garth. The Dispensary, c. 5.

He puts the case, that suppose the order of the teeth should have been inverted, the grinders set in the room of the incisors, &c. (which might as well have been, had not the teeth been placed by a wise Agent,) in this case, what use would the teeth have been of?

Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iv. c. 11. Note 33.

In some creatures it [the mouth] is wide and large, in some little and narrow: in some with a deep incisure up into the head, for the better catching and holding of prey, and more easy comminution of hard, large, and troublesome food; in others with a much shorter incisure, for the gathering and holding of herbaceous food.-Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 11. It [endive] is naturally cold, profitable for hot stomachs; incisive, and opening obstructions of the liver. Evelyn. Acelaria. Cutting or inciding the fore-skin should be mentioned here as a practice adopted amongst them, from a notion of cleanliness.-Cook. Third Voyage, b. iii. c. 9.

With nice incision of her guided steel
She ploughs a brazen field, and clothes a soil
So sterile with what charms soe'er she will,
The richest scen'ry, and the loveliest forms.

Cowper. Task, b. i.

Fr. and Sp. Incident; It. Incidente; Lat. Incidens, pres. part. of Incidere, (in, and cad-ere, to fall,) to fall into or upon.

DENT.

See Acci

Any thing falling or happening, as a chance, or a casualty; a casual or fortuitous circumstance or event; generally, a circumstance or event, (sc.) in a story or drama.

To gyeue ensample to all maner of people, I wyll speke therof as it was don, as I was infourmed, and of the incideles therof.-Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 381.

I haue made as nowe relacyon of all these matters, bycause of the incydentes that folowed after.-Id. Ib. vol. ii. c. 82. Howe it behoueth the dauncers, and also the beholders of them, to knowe al qualities incident to a man, and also all qualities to a woman lykewise appertainynge. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 21.

And incidently it is by the messenger moued, yt there shoulde seme no necessitie for christen folke to resorte to any churches, but yt all were one to pray thens or there. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 119.

And 1 this chapiter incidetly the messenger muche reproueth the liuing of ye clergy.-Id. Ib. p. 224.

It is not like, the prince's [Salomon] eare was the first that heard this complaint; there was a subordinate course of justice for the determination of these meaner incidences. Bp. Hall. Cont. Salomon's Choise.

But wise men, philosophers and private judges, take in the accounts of accidental moments and incidencies to the action, said Cicero.-Bp. Taylor. Of Repentance, c. 3. s. 3.

So then, it is not meere time that is here set to sale, which were odious in any Christian to bargain for; but there are two incidents into this practice which may render it not unwarrantable.-Bp. Hall. Resolutions, Dec. 1. Case 4.

And this disease is held most incident
To the best natures, and most innocent.

Daniel. To the Rev. James Montague. For that fault committed argues not always a hatred either natural or incidental against whom it is committed.

Milton. Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, b. ii. c. 17. Into my thoughts that incidently brings Th' inconstant passage of all worldly things.

As God hath given me a mind to love the public, so incidently, I have ever had your lordship in singular admiration.-Bacon. To Burleigh. June.

Those bodies which give light by reflexion, can there only be perceived where the angle of reflexion is equal to the angle of incidence.-Wilkins. That the Moon may be a World.

The more we consider all the wilfull errours, and involuntary mistakes, vicious inclinations, violent passions, foolish opinions, strange prejudices, superficial reasonings, and obstinate resolutions which are incident to mankind, we shall see greater reason to wonder, that there is so much true religion in the world, than that there is no more. Stillingfleet, vol. ii. Ser. 9. Thy incidents, perhaps, too thick are sown: But too much plenty is thy fault alone.-Dryden, Ep. 12. Wherein also the Constantinopolitan Confession concerning the Holy Ghost, is incidently confirmed by the testimonies likewise of the ancients. Nelson. Life of Bp. Bull, s. 50.

And my incidental explications of the rarefication and condensation of the air, together with my Comparing it to a fleece of wool, sufficiently declare, that I take it not to be a homogeneous body.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 196.

I have occasion more than once in my several writings to treat either purposely or incidentally of matters relating to colours. Id. Ib. vol. i. p. 665.

Here it might be thought, that a sense of the Divine presence could operate upon him only, or chiefly, for promoting temperance, and restraining the disorders incident to a prosperous state.-Blair, vol. iii. Ser. 10.

A writer of lives may descend, with propriety, to minute circumstances and familiar incidents.-Id. Lect. 36.

But there is a wide difference between supposing the violence, offered to them, to be the direct and proper purpose of the act, and the incidental effect of it.-Hurd. Dis. Christ driving the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple. Because they are incidentally placed up and down in the Gospels, by way of parable. Jortin. Remarks on Ecclesiastical History.

Skelton. The Boke of Philip Sparow.

Near the same plot of ground, for about six yards compasse, were digged up coals and incinerated substances. Brown. Urn Burial, c. 2.

For that penitent reflexion devotion makes upon our vaine and foul passions and affections (which is the consumption and incineration of them) becomes purgative by sincere contrition. Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 4. s. 1.

But other incinerable substances were found so fresh, that they could feel no sindge from fire Brown. Urn Burial, c. 3. Yet it is the fire only that incinerates bodies, and reduces the fixed part of them into the salt and earth, whereof ashes are made up.-Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 486.

The fixed alcalizate salt, for ought I remember, is not producible by any known way, without incineration. Id. Ib. p. 529. Lat. Incipiens, from incipere, to begin, (in, and cap-ere, to take.) Beginning, commencing.

INCIPIENT.

Upon that account [it] is like to be very proper in fits of the mother (as they are called,) convulsions, some sorts of head-achs, palsies, incipient apoplexies, some sort of asthmas, &c.-Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 641.

The juice of the leaves drop'd into the eye will remove incipient films. The botanic name is cytisus. Grainger. The Sugar-Cane, b. iv. Note. More commonly En. To move or go around; to

IN-CIRCLE, v.
INCIRCLET.
surround, to encompass.

In whose incirclets if ye gaze,
Your eyes may tread a lover's maze.

And what could be conceived so proper to close this tre mendous scene, or to celebrate this decisive victory, as the cross triumphant incircled with the heroic symbol of cas quest?-Warburton. Works, vol. viii, p. 138.

IN-CIRCUMSCRIPTIBLE. See UNCR CUMSCRIBED. Lat. Circum-scribere, to grave write around, (sc.) certain lines, limits, or be Consequentially

Illimitable, boundless; that cannot or may not be limited or bounded.

This was the bodie which was given for them, betrayed crusified, humbled to the death; not the glories tet Christ, which should bee capable of ten thousand places once, both in heaven, and earth, invisible, incircumcrgisiz. Bp. Hall. The Old Religios, s

INCIRCUMSPECTION.

Also Un. Not having looked around or about; not having observed or re garded; incautious, improvident.

Our fashions of eating make vs slouthfull and valstva labour & study: vnstable, inconstant, and lyght munand full of wittes, after witted (as we call it,) incirespe considerate, heady, rash, hasty to begyn vnadvisty, & without castyng of perils.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 27,

Inasmuch as they are raungers about, and folow set o stauntly that which is streighte, but are led awaye by thes owne affectes now hither now thyther, they care those thir bee simple and incircumspecte into shipwrake.

Udal. Jude, ver.!! An unexpected way of delusion, and whereby be un easily led away the incircumspection of their belief.

INCITE, v. INCITATION.

Brown. Fuigar Erreurs, bill

Fr. Inciter; It. Incitare: Sp. Incitar; Lat. Incitare, to me, or urge to, (in, and citare, idm from the Gr. Ki-e, to move.) See EXCITE quod movere, (Festus); perha

INCITEMENT.

To move or urge to or towards; to g rouse, to animate, to encourage, to enspi instigate, to provoke.

Insomuch that what noble art soeuer hee (Martius Cutte

lian] did in the common wealth, either at hoef

home, he was euer incited with this thing-that be so, that it might be allowable to his mother, that had b him vp.-Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, ball, CA,

Tindall taketh Saint Paules wordes spoke of to signifie not only styring and incitations toward decay sinfull dedes, but also the very dedes comitted and as he calleth it of frayltye, by the violence of these cions.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 551.

And she [Nature] must neede incitementes to her good,
Euen from that part she hurtes!

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 81
What if the sun
Be center to the world, and other starrs
By his attractive vertue and their own
Incited, dance about him various rounds.
Milton. Paradise Lost, br

These incitements Made me not shew so clear a countenance Upon the Lord Euphanes as I would. Beaum. & Fletch. The Queen of Corinth, Acti So trusted they shall be and so regarded, as by kings wont reconcil'd enemies; neglected, and soon after wa carded, if not prosecuted for old traytors; the first beginners, and more than to the third part actors of al tim follow'd.-Milton. A Free Commonwealth.

Quicken thyself what thou maist with all gracism tations in that holy course-Bp. Hall. Baim of Gate Each host now joins, and each a God inspires, These Mars incites, and those Minerva fires. Pope. Homer. That, ba The whole race of men have this passion in some de implanted in their bosoms, which is the strongest and incitation to honest attempts.-Tatler, No. 25.

The absence of Duke Robert, and the concurren el many circumstances, altogether resembling those wh been so favourable to the late monarch, incited him to * similar attempt.-Burke. Abridg. of Eng. Hist. an. 1.0, Indeed no man knows, when he cuts off the inc to a virtuous ambition, and the just rewards of p vice, what infinite mischief he may do his country, S all generations.-Id. On the Economical Reform.

The a

IN-CIVIL. Fr. Incivil; It. Incivile; St INCIVILITY. Incivil; Lat. Incivilis. The orifice is incircled with a lip of glass, almost an inch jective more usually written un; the noun

Sidney. Arcadia, b. ii.

See CITY.