I dye, though not incontinent;

By processe yet consumingly; As wast of fire, which doth relent.

Wyatt. The Louer lamenteth his estate with sute for grace.

When this emperour's doughters wer of two yere olde, continent he prouided women and mistresses for to teache em.-Golden Boke, c. 10.

Wher vppon immediately he sent woord to Athens that would incontinently come thither with an host of menne, d take the government out of the cccc senatours' handes. Goldyng. Justine, fol. 29. But trouth it is, that incontynence is there in some place tle looked vnto, wherof much harme groweth in ye untrey.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 297.

No woman to be tempted, or intreated to incontinencie or shonestie.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 228.

And who is not licentious in the prime
And heat of youth, nor then incontinent,
When out of might he may, he never will;
No pow'r can tempt him to that taste of ill.

Daniel. A Panegyric. To the King's Majesty.
Wherein were clos'd few drops of liquor pure,
Of wondrous worth, and virtue excellent,
That any wound could heale incontinent.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9. And in these degrees, haue they made a paire of staires marriage, which they will climbe incontinent, or else bee continent before marriage; they are in the verie wrath loue, and they will together.

Shakespeare. As You Like It, Act v. sc. 2.

In which parly it was articled, that the Romans should
y a thousand pound weight of gold, and that the Gauls
ould incontinently after the receipt of the same, depart
t of their city and all their territories.
North. Plutarch, p. 124.

To whom the palmer thus, the dunghill kind
Delights in filth and foul incontinence:
Let Grill be Grill, and haue his hoggish mind,
But let vs hence depart, whilst weather serues and wind.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12.
The same yere Minutia, a vestall nun, was first suspected
incontinencie, for going in her apparall more trimme than
is decent for one of her calling and profession.

Holland. Livivs, p. 292.

It is undoubtedly that [speech] of the nymph Echenias, e mistress of Daphnis, upbraiding him for his incontinent ssion; for he had been guilty of a breach of promise to r, and had offended her by following other women.

Fawkes. Theocritus, Idyl. 1. (Note 107.) He was immediately taken up, and the next day, at eight lock in the morning, set on the pillory, and both his ears t off, an herald present, and trumpet blowing; and inconently he was taken down, and carried to the Counter.

Strype. Memorials. Queen Mary, an. 1553.

Where was the crime, if pleasure I procur'd,
Young, and a woman, and to bliss inur'd!
That was my case, and this is my defence,
I pleas'd myself, I shunn'd incontinence.

Dryden. Sigismonda & Guiscardo. This Dr. London, for his incontinency, afterwards did open nance in Oxford, having two smocks on his shoulders, for rs. Thykked and Mrs. Jennyrigs, the mother and the ughter.-Strype. Memorials. Hen. VIII. an. 1548. Such London is, by taste and wealth proclaim'd The fairest Capital of all the world, By riot and incontinence the worst.-Cowper. Task, b. i. IN-CONTRACTED. Not drawn together, t drawn into a narrower space; not shortened, ridged, or curtailed.

This dialect uses the incontracted termination both in uns and verbs.-Blackwall. Sacred Classics, b. i. p. 228.

INCONTROLLABLY.

IN-CONTROLLABLE. Un. Fr. Controlle, More commonly counter-rolle; to take and keep a copy of a role accounts, and thus, to overlook, to check them. That cannot be checked or restrained, resisted · opposed.

However, therefore, these were delivered by the Evangelist, d carry (no doubt) an incontroulable conformity into the tention of his delivery: yet are they not applicable unto ecise numerality, nor strictly to be drawn into the rigid st of numbers.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iv. c. 12. Solyman, Amurath, and others, challenged absolute, irrestible, incontroulable power to set up, pull down, order, ter, and dispose the world, and all things in the world, at easure.-Mountagu. Appeale to Cæsar, c. 5.

For, as a man thinks or desires in his heart, such indeed is, for then most truly, because most incontroulably, he ts himself.-South, vol. viii. Ser. 1.

IN-CONTROVERTIBLE. INCONTROVERTIBLY.

See UN.

That cannot be disputed or debated; indisputable, inconfutable. The thing itself whereon the opinion dependeth, that is, the variety of the flux and the reflux of Euripus, or whether the same do ebbe and flow seven times a day, is not incontrovertible.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 23.

For the Hebrew; it is incontrovertibly the primitive and surest text to rely on, and to preserve the same entire and uncorrupt, there hath been used the highest caution humanity could invent.-Id. Ib. b. vi. c. 1.

This, therefore, may be assumed as an incontrovertible principle, that the difference of good and evil in actions is not founded on arbitrary opinions or institutions, but in the nature of things, and the nature of man; and accords with the universal sense of the human kind. Blair, vol. v. Ser. 20. Both which letters, though they did not arrive until after the actual signature of the said Colonel Champion, do yet incontrovertibly mark the solemn intention of the said committee (of which the said Hastings was president) that the sanction of Colonel Champion's attestation should be regarded as a publick, not a private sanction.

Burke. Charge against Warren Hastings.

IN-CONVENIENT. See UN. Fr. InINCONVENIENTLY. convénient; Sp. and INCONVENIENce, v. It. Inconveniente; Lat. INCONVENIENCE, n. In-conveniens. INCONVENIENCY. Inconvenient, not becoming; or unbecoming, unsuitable, unfitting; inapplicable, inconsistent; incommodious, disadvantageous, troublesome, embarrassing. And to inconvenience,

-

To put to, to cause an inconvenience; to put or place in an unsuitable, incommodious, embarrassing situation; to trouble, to embarrass.

Wherfore it is none inconuenient if in that manner bee said, God to forne haue destenied both badde and her badde werkes, when hem ne their yuell deeds neither amēdeth, ne therto hem grace leueth.

Chaucer. The Testament of Loue, b. iii.

But the sacrament entreth in by the mouth: therefore it doth follow that (of it selfe) it doth not sactifie or make holy, & of this text should follow two inconueniencies, if the sacrament were the naturall body of Christ.-Id. Ib. p. 141.

Is not this exposition playne? This taketh away all inconuenieces? By this exposition God is not the auctor of euill?-Barnes. Workes, p. 280.

What inconuenience is it than to take into his speciall seruice men of yt sort that he most specially commēdeth. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 231.

In which parts [the equinoctiall] they suffered so many inconueniences of heats, and lacke of windes, that they thinke themselues happy when they haue passed it. Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 99.

For it is not the variety of opinions, but our own perverse wills, who think it meet, that all should be conceited

as our selves are, which hath so inconvenienced the church. Hales. Remains. Rom. xiv. 1.

This oration at the first caused them every one to regard

and looke homeward to domestical difficulties and inconveniencies, namely, the idlenesse, the envie and backbiting of

in warfare.-Holland. Livius, p. 874. those which tarie at home, against them that are employed

-Time may come when men With angels may participate, and find No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. v. There is many an holy soul that dwels inconveniently, in a crazy, tottering, ruinous cottage, ready to drop downe daily upon his head.-Bp. Hall. Mourners in Sion.

The rites and ceremonies, 'tis apparent, had no intrinsic nor moral holiness in them; no natural tendency to promote the happiness of men; nay, rather they were inconvenient and grievous, a yoke of bondage and servile discipline, which none were able to bear.-Bentley, Ser. 9.

Aeth was next invested, it lay so inconveniently between Flanders and Brabant, that it was necessary to clear that communication, and to deliver Brussels from the danger of that neighbourhood.-Burnet. Own Time, an. 1706.

He only is like to endure austerities, who has already found the inconvenience of pleasures.-Dryden. Georg. Ded.

Possibly that case in Henry VII. may prove, that if the king should in his passion kill a man, this shall not be felony to take away the king's life; for the inconveniency may be greater to the people, by putting a king to death for one offence and miscarriage, than the execution of justice upon him can advantage them. Ludlow. Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 348.

The monarchick, and aristocratical, and popular partisans have been jointly laying their axes to the root of all government, and have in their turns proved each other absurd and inconvenient.-Burke. A Vindication of Natural Society.

The only question is how far the members of these societies may take upon themselves to judge of the inconveniency of any particular direction, and make that a reason for laying aside the observation of it. Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. iii. pt. i. c. 21. IN-CONVERTED. Now commonly Un. INCONVERTIBLE. Not turned, unturned,

INCONVINCEDLY. inconvincibly.

That cannot be conquered or subdued, (sc.) by argument; cannot be forced, (sc.) to receive an opinion, or to relinquish one.

Yet is it not much lesse injurious unto knowledge obstinately and inconvincedly to side with any one. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b.i. c. 7. None are so inconvincible as your half-witted people. Government of the Tongue, p. 195. INCONY. Mr. Steevens observes that cony and incony have the same meaning. Conny, Mr. Grose says, is brave, fine, the same as canny, a word in Scotland very variously applied, (see Jamieson;) but plainly our English word cunning, i. e. knowing, clever. Mr. Steevens produces several examples of this word, and Archdeacon Nares adds to them.

O my troth most sweete iestes, most inconie vulgar wit, When it comes so smoothly off. Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Activ sc. 1. IN-CORNISHED. Having cornices; (see CORNICE.) The brow of a wall, pillar, or other piece of building.

The outer walls of the house are incrusted with excellent antique basse-relievos of the same marble, incornish'd with festoons and nitches set with statues from the foundation to the roofe.-Evelyn. Memoirs, vol. i. Rome, April 11, 1645.

IN-CORPORATE, v. INCORPORATE, adj. INCORPORATING. INCORPORATION. INCO'RPORAL. INCORPO'REAL. INCORPO'REALLY. INCORPOREALISM. INCORPO REALIST. INCORPORE/ITY. INCO'RPSE, V.

Also En. Fr. Incorporer; It. Incorporare; Sp. Encorporar.

To embody; to mix, mingle, or blend one into another body or substance; to mix or blend, to unite or conjoin, intimately, closely together. Incorporeal, incorporal, &c.-Fr. Incorporel; It. Incorporale; Sp. poralis, from corpus, body;Incorporal; Lat. Incorporalis, in, (priv.) and cor

Bodiless, without body or matter, immaterial; consequentially, spiritual.

Shakespeare uses incorpse or encorpse as equivalent to incorporate.

So sone as I had eaten it (sayth Saynt Johan) so soon as I had incorporate it in my mynde, and roted it in my soule, my belly was bytter, my hart was greaued much to se theuils of the worlde, my spyrite was trubled to se the abusyons of men, and much I pitied the losse of their soules. Bale. Image, pt. 1.

The said felowship, company, society & corporation made or created by the said letters patents, shal at al time & times from henseforth be incorporated, named and called onely by the name of the felowship of English merchants, for discouery of new trades.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 370.

And the vertues wel incorporate, nourishe many enuious. Golden Boke, c. 15.

For the meane while in thys worlde, bodyly to recelue and eat hys owne blessed body into theirs, as an ernest peny of their perpetual coniuccio and incorporacion with him afterward, in the kingdome of his eternall glorye.

Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1045. The soule of man hath his end and terme & spiritual alteration, incorporall, to be regenerate the sonne of God.

Bp. Gardner. Explic. Transubst. fol. 109.

He never suffers wrong so long to grow,
And to incorporate with right so far,
As it might come to seem the same in show,
(T' encourage those that evil minded are
By such success.)

Daniel. Civil Wars, b. v.

To the end that, beeing thus soaked and softened, it might bee well mixed and incorporated, yea and resolved (as it were) into a kind of paste.-Holland. Plin. b. xviii. c. 7.

And for that these knights or gentlemen were last incorporated into the bodie of the common-weale, this is the onely reason that even now also they are written in all publicke instruments after the people.-Id. Ib. b. xxxiii. c. 2.

Item. That they should abolish the lawes, ordinances and customes of Lycurgus, and frame themselves to live after the fashions and manners of the Achæans, for they so should be incorporate into one civile bodie, and better accord and sort together in all things.-Id. Livivs, p. 1003.

By this means he first took away all faction, that neither side said, nor thought any more, those are Sabyns, these are Romans, these are of Tatius, these are of Romulus. Insomuch as this division was an incorporating, and an uniting of the whole together.-North. Plutarch, p. 59.

It shall likewise have a general and total connexion, even a mixion and incorporation.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 903.

God is an universall spirit or mind: matter is the first and principal subject of generation and corruption : idea, an incorporall substance, resting in the thoughts and cogitations of God; which God is the general soule and intelligence of the world.-Id. Ib. p. 662.

And both contain

Within them every lower facultie
Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste,
Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate,
And corporeal to incorporeal turn.

Millon. Paradise Lost, b. v. The cause is, for that the sense of hearing striketh the spirits more immediately than the other senses; and more incorporeally than the smelling.-Bacon. Nat. Hist. § 124. So in like manner did all the other ancient atomists generally before Democritus, joyn theology and incorporealism with their atomical physiology.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 27. We have made it evident that those atomick physiologies, that were before Democritus and Leucippus, were all of them incorporealists; joyning theology and pneumatology, the doctrine of incorporeal substance and a Deity together with their atomick physiology.-Id. Ib. p. 26.

Empedocles did in the same manner, as Pythagoras before him, and Plato after him, hold the transmigration of souls, and consequently, both their future immortality and preexistence; and therefore must needs assert their incorporeity.-Id. Ib. p. 23.

He grew into his seat,

And to such wondrous doing brought his horse,
As he had beene encorps't and demy-natur'd

With the braue beast.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iv. sc. 7. The design was now to settle a lasting and indissoluble union between the kingdoms, therefore they resolved to treat only about an incorporating union, that should put an end to all distinctions, and unite all their interests.

Burnel. Own Time, an. 1706. But all this learning is ignoble and mechanical among them, and the Confucian only essential and incorporate to their government.-Sir W. Temple. Of Heroic Virtue.

To this a mercurial spirit must be superadded, which by its activity may for a while permeate, and, as it were, leaven the whole mass, and thereby promote the more exquisite mixture and incorporation of the ingredients. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 546. Both which [spiritus and anima] in their primitive sense mean aerial matter; and all the words that the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin of old, or any tongue now or hereafter can supply, to denote the substance of God or soul, must either be thus metaphorical, or else merely negative, as incorporeal, or immaterial.-Bentley. Of Free-thinking, § 10.

Hence merchants, unimpeachable of sin
Against the charities of domestic life,

Incorporated seem at once to lose

Their nature.

Cowper. Task, b. iv.

But to perseuer

In obstinate condolement, is a course Of impious stubbornesse. 'Tis vnmanly greefe, It shewes a will most incorrect to heauen. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Acti. sc. 2. To censure and separate from the communion of Christe's flock the contagious and incorrigible, to receive with joy and fatherly compassion the penitent, &c. Millon. Reformation in England, b. ii.

I will therefore only observe to you that the wit of the last age was yet more incorrect than their language.

Dryden. Def. of the Epilogue to the Conquest of Granada. The most learned Mr. Selden, in his Tilles of Honour, says, "That this Statute was never printed in the Statute Book, and but incorrectly by another."

Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1539. There are very many ill habits that might with much ease have been prevented, which after we have indulged ourselves in them, become incorrigible.-Tatler, No. 231. "I own," said he, "I'm very badA sot-incorrigibly madBut, sir-I thank you for your love, And by your lectures would improve."

Somervile. Bacchus Triumphant. Hence with the advantage of the easiest transition he slides into the last part of the Epistle; the design of which, as hath been observed, was to reprove an incorrectness and want of care in the Roman writers.

Hurd. Horatii Ars Poetica. Commentary, v. 240-251. To change the place, and shift the scene in the midst of one Act, shows a great incorrectness, and destroys the whole intention of the division of a Play into Acts. Blair, vol. iii. Lect. 45. But if we are to suppose what the Poet would seem to insinuate, in discredit of the dispensation, that the soil of Judea was absolutely incorrigible; a more convincing proof cannot be given of that extraordinary providence which Moses promised to them. So that if the corrigibility of a bad soil perfectly agreed with the end of the dispensation, which was a separation, the incorrigibility of it was as well fitted to the mean, which was an extraordinary providence.-Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. v. s. 1.

IN-CORRUPT.
INCORRUPTED.

INCORRUPTIBLE.
INCORRUPTIBILITY.
INCORRUPTION.

INCORRUPTIVE.

INCORRUPTLY, sound, pure.

Also written Un. Fr. and Sp. Incorruptible; It. Incorruttibile; Lat. In-corruptus.

Not broken or destroyed, not vitiated or depraved; whole, entire,

Incorruptible, that cannot be broken or destroyed, decayed or wasted, reduced to rottenness or putrefaction, vitiated or depraved; that cannot be allured or enticed to vice or vicious deeds. His whight vesture sheweth him to be the most iuste and incorrupt iuge without spotte.

Joye. The Exposicion of Daniel, c. 7.

For the trompe shal blowe, and the dead shall ryse incorruptible and we shal be chaunged. For thys corruptyble must put on incorruptibilyte: and thys mortall muste putte on immortalyte.-Bible, 1551. 1 Cor. c. 15.

Wee beleue certainlye the resurrection of the same flesh we walke in, and yet it shall be by the garment of incorruptibilite not the same in qualite.

Bp. Gardner. Explication, fol. 89. For otherwise it is not possible for this corruptible nature of our bodies, to be broughte to lyfe and incorruption, excepte the bodye of naturall life be ioyned vnto it. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1345.

I deny not but that there may be such a king, who may regard the common good before his own, may have no vicious favourite, may hearken only to the wisest and incorruptest of his Parlament: but this rarely happens in a monarchy not elective.

Milton. Way to establish a Free Commonwealth. In all the world like was not to be found, Save in that soil, where all good things did grow, And freely sprong out of the fruitful ground, As incorrupted Nature did them sow.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 11.

E'en then to them the spirit of lies suggests,
That they were blind, because they saw not ill,
And breath'd into their incorrupted breasts
A curious wish, which did corrupt their will.

Davies. Immortality of the Soul, Introd.

So doth the piercing soul the body fill,
Being all in all, and all in part diffus'd;
Indivisible, incorruptible still;

Nor forc'd, encounter'd, troubled, or confus'd.-Id. Ib. They admitted not a subsistence of immortality and incorruptibility.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 899.

Observation will show us many deep counsellors of state and judges to demean themselves incorruptly in the settled lives, powerful in their audience. course of affairs, and many worthy preachers upright in their

Milton. Reason. of Church Government, b. i. c. 1.

For the same preservation, or rather incorruption we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, hares, partrip, venison, suspended freely in the ayr.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, bill e 27

Is the sepulchre a place to dress ourselves in for heaven. the attiring room for corruption to put on incorruptos and to fit us for the beatific vision!-South, vol. iv. Ser. 1.

1. First, Whether your bishop and his chancel or, commissaries, and all other his officers, do minister justice ind ferently and incorruptly to all her majesty's subjects.

Strype. Life of Grindal, b. i. App. No. Therefore, adds he, take care to have, that is, retain tha salt, this good seasoning of your christian principles. yourselves; which will preserve you incorrupt, a tur viduals.-Hurd. Works, vol. vi. Ser. 11.

While o'er yon hill th' exalted trophy shows
To what vast heights of incorrupted praise,
The great, the self-ennobled Marius rose
From private worth, and fortune's private ways.
Whitehead. To an

Who to his mortal guests convey'd
Th' incorruptible food of gods,
On which in their divine abodes
Himself erst feasting was immortal made.
West. Pindar. Olympic Oda, Ole

Such as are worthy to be cast into this fire, shall n salted, or preserved from wasting (salt being the ar emblem of incorruption and thence of perpetuity) ty dhe very fire itself.-Hurd. Works, vol. vi. Ser. 11.

[The lyre] struck

For sounds of triumph, to proclaim her toils
Upon the lofty summit, round her brow
To twine the wreath of incorruptive praise.

Akenside. Pleasures of Imagination, b i IN-COUNTER, v. Anciently also, and new INCOUNTER, n. commonly, En.

To run or go counter or against; to oppose." meet in opposition, front to front, to engage wi or attack, and generally, to meet.

But with a valiant corage he marched forward toward enemies, and in his iourney he was incountered with le Lorde Hungerford, the Lorde Roose, &c.

Hall. Eds. IF. 12.

And here at this one place Thomas Baker, one of men, died of a hurt; for he had bene before shot with an arrow into the throat at the first incounter.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. ii. p. 4′′*

He all his forces streight to him did reare, And forth issuing with his scouts afore, Meant them to haue incountred, ere they left the shore. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b.v.c

No marvell (I say) if he [Isocrates] feared the shock m incounter of two armies, who was afraid that one VOT should runne upon another, and least he should pr a clause or number of a sentence which wanted one pas syllable.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 809.

aggiare.

To inspire or animate with courage; wit strength and vigour of heart, with resolution, will fortitude; to hearten.

Wherein as he mai finde great diuersitie both in stem. sense, so maie the good be incouraged to set me on wit at last, though it were noone before I sought service.

Gascoigne. To the Youth of Exalta

Which nothing dismaid our generall, [Sir John Hart > for he ceased not to incourage vs, saying, feare muling of God, who hath preserued me from this shot, will also or liuer vs from these traitours and villaines.

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. E. p. 4

But bifore that the shippes of the Peloponesyars deportiv from Corinthe and out of the goulphe of Crisee, Chemia anu the othere rulers, through the requeste & inceargua the Megariens, wolde assaye to take the part of Atwas named Pireus.-Nicoll. Thucidides, fol. 69.

In this wise we beganne to rush in among them vpen the side of a rocke alwayes gayning ground of them, Wind greatly incouraged our mindes.

Hackluyt. Voyages, val. iii. p. 40%.

In somuch that many of the lustiest and stoutest of ther banded together in companies, and incouraged one musk” not to suffer and bear any longer such extremity.

North, Pistarch, p"The wise Providence hath made his enemies proberts his victory, incouragers of the attempt, proclaimers of his owne confusion.

Bp. Hall. Cont. Gideon's Preparation & Fit:7

All-beauteous ladies, love-alluring dames,
That on the banks of Isca, Humber, Thames,
By your incouragement can make a swaine
Climbe by his song where none but soules attaine.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 3. Intemperance and luxury and unnatural uncleanness was mmonly practised even in the most civilized countries; id this not so much in opposition to the doctrine of the hilosophers, as by the consent indeed and incouragement too great a part of them.

Clarke. On the Evidences, Prop. 6.

IN-CRA'SSATE, v. Fr. Incrasser; Lat.
INCRASSA'TION.
Crassus, crass, (qv.)

To thicken, or make thick, gross, or heavy.

Some finde sepulchral vessels containing liquors, which ne hath incrassated into gellies.

Brown. Urne Burial, c. 3. p. 12. Yes verily, (quoth I) there is apparence and probability deed thereof, but no truth at all; for this I see ordinarily at the manner is to incrassate fresh water with ashes or avell stones.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 540.

Their understandings were so gross within them, being ned and incrassate with magical phantasms, that let the 1th within them say what it would, they could not conive the Deity without some quantity,-either corporeity or imber.-Hammond. Works, vol. iv. Ser. 14.

Secondly, (as is argued by Aristotle against the Pythagoins) whatsoever properly nourisheth before its assimulan, by the action of natural heat it receiveth a corpulency incrassation progressional unto its conversion.

INCREASE, v. INCREASE, n.

INCREASER.

INCREASEFUL.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 20.

INCREASEMENT.

INCREASEABLE. INCREASEABLENESS.

any," (Cotgrave.)

Formerly also En. Lat. Increscere. As the Fr. Accroistre, "to augment, amplifie, enlarge, (grow or become, or) make bigger, and bigger; also to multiply, or wax

And all in vaine hee hopes to haue

his famine to expell

The fitting fruit that lookes so braue

and likes his eie so well :

And thus his hunger doth increase,
And hee can neuer finde release.

Turbervile. The Louer oblayning his wishe, &c.

A prosperous shower and rayne wyl sende them in due ason, that the trees in the wodde may brynge forthe theyr ites, and the grounde her increase.

Bible, 1551. Ezechiel, c. 34. To him alone they attribute the beginnings, the increas78, the proceedings, the changes, and the ends of all things. More. Utopia, b. ii. c. 11. Wherefore occasion ought to be taken, when it was offered, d good holde ought to be layed, with spede vppon the incasment of their strength.-Goldyng. Justine, fol. 145.

Which when to ripenesse due they growen arre,
Bring forth an infinite increase, that breeds
Tumultuous trouble, and contentious iarre

The which most often end in bloudshed and in warre.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 2.

To cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops,
And waste huge stones with little water-drops.

Shakespeare. Rape of Lucrece.

Then it is worthy the consideration, how this may import gland in the increasement of the greatnesse of France, by e addition of such a countrey.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 56. And for that paper of increasements sperate, I beseech you give me leave to think, that if any of the particulars do il. it will rather be for want of workmanship in those that all deal with them, than want of materials in the things emselves. Id. To the King. On his Revenue, Ap. 1615.

And Romulus, thou father of our honour,
Preserve him like thy self, just, valiant, noble,
A lover, and increaser of his people.

Beaum. & Fletch. Valentinian, Act v. sc. 7.

May they increase as fast, and spread their boughs
As the high fame of their great owner grows!
May he live long enough to see them all
Dark shadows cast, and as his palace tall!

Waller. On St. James's Park.

For things of tender kind, for pleasure made Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd. Dryden. The Wife of Bath's Tale. But if we could once suppose an end of these, they would no longer increasable, or, which would come to the same, e should then lose our faculty of adding to them.

Law. Enquiry, c. 1. The necessity of enlarging infinitely, means no more than nat we find an indefinite increaseableness of some of our leas, or an impossibility of supposing any end of them.

Id. Ib.

Wherever the commerce between the sexes is regulated by marriage, and a provision for that mode of subsistence, to which each class of the community is accustomed, can be procured with ease and certainty, there the number of the people will increase; and the rapidity, as well as the extent of the increase, will be proportioned to the degree in which these causes exist.-Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. vi. c. 11.

It is therefore of the deepest concernment to us to be set right in this point; and to be well satisfied whether civil government be such a protector from natural evils, and such a nurse and increaser of blessings, as those of warm imaginations promise.-Burke. Vindication of Natural Society.

INCREA'TED.

IN-CREATE. Į More usually Un. Not created, unmade, unformed; and, consequentially, existing from eternity.

Since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Milton. Paradise Lost, b. iii. These admirable intellectual verities, which are the objects of a true contemplative soul in this life, do in some degree figure to it the unexpressible notions, rising out of a fruitive contemplation of the increated verity.

Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 21. s. 1.
Fr.
Incrédible, incroyable; It.
Incredibile; Sp. Incre-
dible, increyble; Lat. In-
credibilis.

IN-CREDIBLE. Formerly also Un.
INCREDIBLY.

INCREDIBILIty.

INCREDULITY.

INCREDULOUS.

Not to be believed; in which we can have or place no faith, trust, or confidence.

The incredyble swiftnesse of fame encreased the wondermet of the thing.-Goldyng. Justine, fol. 94.

And forthwith retourned to their owne habitatios, reioysing incredibly, that they had sene and touched a Prince so noble and valyant. [Scipio.]

Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. ii. c. 2. He [Martine Luther] saith, expressly, that a Chryste man can neuer be damned if he will beleue, nor no sinne can damne him but onely incredulitie, that is to say, lacke of beliefe. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 713.

For if I had not knowen sufficiently the incomparable wealth of that countrey, I should have been as incredulous thereof, as others will be that have not had the like experience.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 837.

This is not incredible, [the story of the Boy and Fox] by that we do see young boys abide at this day: for we have seen divers, which have bidden whipping even to death, upon the altar of Diana, surnamed Orthia. North. Plutarch, p. 43. And yet they say it, and sing it every where, that Romulus was the son of a God, that at his birth he was miraculously preserved, and afterwards he was as incredibly brought up.-Id. Ib. p. 53.

"But if th' afflicted miserable sort,

To idle incredulity inclin'd,

And all, at a time, when this kingdom was forced to struggle at home with the calamitous effects of a raging plague, that in three months of the first year swept away incredible numbers of people.

Sir. W. Temple. Upon the United Provinces, c. 7. The main objection insisted upon by the principal of St. Paul's opposers, the Sadducees, against the doctrine preached by him, was drawn from this controverted point of the resurrection, and of the incredibility of the same, founded upon the supposed impossibility thereof.

South, vol. iv. Ser. 6. There is nothing so wild and extravagant, to which men may not expose themselves by such a kind of nice and scrupulous incredulity.-Wilkins. Nat. Religion, b. ii. c. 9.

As for the evidence from testimony which depends upon the credit and authority of the witnesses, these may be so qualified as to their ability and fidelity, that a man must be a fantastical incredulous fool to make any doubt of them. Id. Ib. b. i. c. 1.

It is not unlikely that his experience of the inefficacy and incredibility of a mythological tale might determine him to choose an action from the English History, at no great distance from our own times.-Johnson. Life of Smith.

He who brings with him into a clamorous multitude the timidity of recluse speculation will blush at the stare of petulant incredulity, and suffer himself to be driven, by a burst of laughter, from the fortress of demonstration. Rambler, No. 11.

IN-CRE/MABLE.

tion, (qv.)

Brown uses also crema

Not to be burned, not consumable by fire.

But their insatisfaction herein began that remarkable invention in the funeral pyres of some princes, by incombustible sheets made with a texture of asbestos, incremable flax, or salamander's wool, which preserved their bones and ashes incommixed.-Brown. Urne Burial, c. 3.

INCREMENT. Fr. Incrément; It. and Sp. Incremento; Lat. Incrementum, from increscere, to grow or increase, (qv.)

Growth or increase, in magnitude or number. The same meekness and charity should be preserved in the promotion of Christianity, that gave it foundation, and increment, and firmness in its first publication. Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying, § 16. Another providential benefit of the hills supplying the earth with water is, that they are not only instrumental thereby to the fertility of the valleys; but to their own also, to the verdure of the vegetables without, and to the increment and vigour of the treasures within them.

Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iii. c. 4.
Shall she describe

The worm that subtly winds into their flesh,
All as they bathe them in their native streams?
There, with fell increment, it soon attains
A direful length of harm.

INCREPA'TION.

Grainger. The Sugar Cane, b. iv. Fr. Incrépation; Lat. Increpitare, frequentative of increpare, to make a noise, (in, and crepare.)

To make a noise at, angrily, chidingly; and thus to chide, rebuke, or reprove.

For when they desired to know the time of his restoring their kingdom who were of his own house, his answer was a kinde of soft increpation to them, and a strong instruction to all times.-Mountague. Devoute Ess. pt. i. Treat. 16. s. 6.

The Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear, which words are only an increpation of them, not any reflection upon God.

South, vol. viii. Ser. 13. IN-CREST, v. To cover or adorn with, or as with, a crest.

Two foaming billows flow'd upon her breast,
Which did their top with coral red increst.
Drummond. Sonnets, pt. i. s. 13.

Also, and now commonly, En.

more

IN-CROACH, v. INCRO'ACHER. INCROACHMENT. hook. (Fr. Croc.) To grasp or seize upon, to trespass upon, the rights and property of another; to intrude, or advance upon the bounds or limits of another person or thing.

To draw away with a And thus,-

When stars do counsel rest Incroching cares renue my griefe as faste, And thus desired night in wo I waste.

Turbervile. To his Absent Friend. Some [castels] also in my time neuer cease to incroch upon the liberties of the cities adjoining. Holinshed. Description of England, c. 14.

The sea neuer incroacheth upon our shore, but it loseth elsewhere.-Bp. Hall, Epist. 4. Dec. 4.

I see thy pitched stakes do stand

On thy incroached piece of common land.-Id. b. v. Sat. 2.
And lofty proud incroaching tyranny
Burnes with revenging fire.

Shakespeare. 2 Pt. Hen. VI. Activ. sc. 1. Not the ambitious incroachers upon others' dominions, not violators of leagues, &c.-Bp. Hall. True Peace Maker.

God, rather than Man, once in many Ages, calls together the prudent and religious counsels of men, deputed to repress the incroachments, and to work off the inveterate blots and obscurities wrought upon our minds by the subtle insinuating of error and custom.

Milton. Doctrine of Divorce. To the Parlament. So swelling surges, with a thundering roar, Driven on each other's backs, insult the shore; Bound o'er the rocks, incroach upon the land; And far upon the beach eject the sand.

Dryden. Virgil. Æneis, b. xi. "Good words, friend Ren," the Bush reply'd, "Here no incroacher 'scapes: Those foxes that on brambles ride Love thorns, as well as grapes."

Yalden. The Fox & Bramble. Suppose this difficulty to be got over; and Dr. Senior as ready at hand as De Marca, or Bossuet, and as willing to declare against the incroachments of the Church.

Warburton. Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy.

The chapell is incrusted with such precious materials, that nothing can be more rich or glorious, nor are the other ornaments or moveables about it at all inferior.

Evelyn. Memoirs. Rome, an. 1644.

The new stayres and a half circular court, are of modern and good architecture, as is a chapell built by Lewis XIII. all of jasper, with several incrustations of marble in the inside. Id. Ib. Fontainbleau, an. 1644.

And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow,
Incrusted hard, and sounding to the tread
Of early shepherd, as he pensive seeks
His pining flock, or from the mountain top,
Pleas'd with the slippery surface, swift descends.

Thomson. Winter.

My friend of Mendippe tells me of a black incrusted substance, which he found in Mendippe hills, bedecked very delightfully with artificial branches of the exact form of ferns, which they there say is an infallible discoverer of a coal-mine.-Boyle. Works, vol. vi. p. 387.

It is strewed upon, or, as it were, incrustated about, small branches of the Canadian pine. Cook. Third Voyage, b. iv. c. 3.

The art being now well established, every age adorned it with additional superstitions; so that at length the old foundation became quite lost in these new incrustations. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. iv. s. 4. IN-CUBATION. Lat. Incubatio, from incubare, to lie upon, to sit upon, as a hen upon eggs, (in, and cubare, to lie.)

Lying upon, sitting upon, (as a hen upon eggs ;) brooding.

How causeless their fear was herein, the daily incubation of ducks, peahens, and many other testifie.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 7.

But the incubation of this Spirit of God did not so much excite, as give a new vital power to the several parts of the chaos.-Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 293.

The last [circumstance] is the use of those strings as Cardan supposes, for the better keeping them together in this incubiture.-H. More. Antidote against Atheism, b. ii. c. 12.

The eggs of birds, and such greater animals, do, in this colder climate of ours, require to be hatched by the incubation of females, or other birds.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 590.

First, the Swiss Republicks grew under the guardianship of the French monarch. The Dutch Republicks were hatched and cherished under the same incubation.

IN-CUBE, v. valent to

Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 2.

(Met.) to press forcibly, into, to press or urge, frequently, repeatedly; to teach impressively, urgently, repeatedly.

And therefore Paul oft inculketh these two wordis.
Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, c. 9.

If they would say yt we misse constrew their wordes, their bookes be open, and the wordes playne, inculked agayne and againe so often and so openly that men cannot erre therein, nor they by anye cloke or colour defende theym. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 260.

I knowe that I speake this to them that neither greatly take hede, nor understand the same: but I doe therefore repete, and often inculcate it.-Udal. John, c. 14.

In the inculcation of these wordes, I am tedious (to a learned reader) but yet this auctor enforeth me thervnto.

Bp. Gardner. Explic. Pres. in the Sacram. fol. 55.

For the wisdom of poets would first make the images of virtue so amiable that her beholders should not be able to look off, (rather gently and delightfully infusing, than inculcating precepts).-Davenant. Gondibert, Pref.

The best of all saints are subject to fits of unbeleefe, and oblivion; the onely remedy whereof must be the inculcation of God's mercifull promises of their reliefe; and supportation.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Lazarus raised.

Hence grew the impostures of charms, and amulets, and upon common belief, as they did of old upon the barbarisa other insignificant ceremonies; which to this day myse

of the incultivate Heathen.

Glanvill. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c

The modern retainers to the Stagirite have spent ther sweat and pains upon the most litigious parts of spo sophy; while those, that find less play for the contending genius, are incultivate.—Id. Ib. c. 17.

Certainly, the inculture of the world would perish inte a wilderness, should not the activeness of commerce mats i an universal city.-Feltham, pt. ii. Res. 49. Her forests huge,

Incult, robust, and tall, by Nature's hand
Planted of old.

Lying, leaning, reposing, resting upon; resting weighing, pressing upon, (as a duty, that must borne or supported.)

The most obvious and necessary duties of life; they [the philosophers] have not yet had authority enough to inforce Sir Edward Coke says, (Lit. 119,) a ceri and inculcate upon men's minds with so strong an impres-resident on his benefice is termed an Incumbent sion, as to influence and govern the general practice of the because he does or ought diligently to bend chi world.-Clarke. Natural and Revealed Religion, Prop. 6. study to the discharge of the cure of the chink to which he belongs.

By these frequent inculcations of the archbishop, and some of his fellow bishops, and by their discreet behaviour towards the queen, she was at length brought off from the fancy of

images.-Strype. Life of Parker, an. 1561.

Des Cartes himself, who has been the greatest example and inculcator of this suspension [of assent,] declares that he would have it practised only about human speculations, not about human actions.-Boyle. Works, vol. iv. p. 183.

It is now submitted to the candid reader, Whether it be not fairly proved, that the mysteries were invented by the legislator, to affirm and establish the general doctrine of a providence, by inculcating the belief of a future state of rewards and punishments. Warburton. Divine Legation, b. ii. s. 4.

The days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received.-Rambler, No. 151.

IN-CULPABLE. INCULPABLENESS. INCULPABLY. INCU'LP, v.

It. Incolpabi; Sp. Inculpable; Lat. Inculpabilis. See CULPABLE.

That can or may not

And lowe men spiritually are such, as are incumbent doe rest on filthy or vile and transitorie thinges. Udal. Lake,

If the great door be arched with some brave heat, cu fine stone or marble for the key of the arch, and two bent figures gracefully leaning upon it towards one an as if they meant to confer, I should think this & sån entertainment for the first reception of any judicious apa Reliquia Woltonians, j

Yet this expence would be much less than to hire in bents, or rather incumbrances, for life-time; and grat (which is the subject of this discourse) to diminish hi, TA Milton. Hirelings out of the Chur Some things are mine by possession, some by use; by title, some by incumbency.

Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. i. e Meanwhile incumbent o'er the shining share The master leans, removes th' obstructing clay Winds the whole work, and sidelong lays the gebe Thomson. Spr

For though they have now the same right by their að bency that they then had, yet in the time of superstition of

To infix herself, q.d. cubically; i. e. in a firm and solid manner.

So that Prelaty, if she will seek to close up divisions in the Church, must be forc'd to dissolve and unmake her own pyramidal figure, which she affirms to be of such uniting power, when as indeed it is the most dividing and schismatical form that Geometricians know of, and must be fain to inglobe or incube herself among the Presbyters.

Millon. Reason of Church Government, b. i. c. 6. INCUBUS. Lat. Incubus, q. d. qui incubat; who lies upon; a spirit to whom was ascribed the oppression known by the vulgar name of Night

blameless.

Such persons also wrathe carrieth violently out of the right way, to the spoyling of inculpable & faultlesse poore men.-Udal. Luke, c. 4.

True puritee consisteth in the inculpablenesse and innocencie of the heart.-Id. Ib. c. 11.

For if Chrysostom's impatience and head-long desire slew him, why shuld mine honest proceeding and care be inculped therewithal.-Shelton. Don Quixote, b. ii. c. 6.

He was Lycaons sonne whom Jove into a wolfe did turne For sacrificing of a childe, and yet in armes renown'd, As one that was inculpable.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b.iv. Men cannot be always babes in Christ without their own fault; they are no longer Christ's little ones-then they are inculpably ignorant.

Bp. Taylor. The Great Exempiar, pt. iii. Dis. 17. The case is such in the rules of morality, that no ignorance of things, lying under necessary practice, can be totally inculpable.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 10.

The great thing to be attended to in this case, of a man's following a mistaken judgment, is the culpableness or inculpableness, the faultiness or innocence of the mistake

upon which he acts.-Sharp, vol. ii. A Dis. of Conscience.

sites, did furnish them so plentifully, that, considering obligation to remain unmarried, they lived well, their certain maintainance was but small.

Burnet. History of the Reformation, vo ži. Pré The balance of his soul is lost; he is no longer a master, nor is capable of attending properly to the life which are incumbent on him, or of turning his the into any other direction than what passion points out Blair, vol. v. Se

In the case of ill health, and doubtless in other cases th may occur, there will sometimes be good reason, fat. incumbent to desire, and therefore for the ordinary to an occasional suspension, or relaxation, at least of general rule.-Hurd. Charge to the Clergy of Worcester.

In short, the reason of the thing speaks so strong f the incumbency of parochial ministers, that they, the best excuse to make for themselves, will lament absence, and accept the leave granted to them with

Turbervile. The Louer blames his Tongue, dis In which the gentleman was unfortunately incumbre, wid wants, and worse matched with many ill disposed pre Hackingt. Voyages, vol. in på te You wil esteeme them not wel informed of their not tilled, or ploughed, or ings, that thinke them insufficient to passe thres manured.

See UN. Lat. Incultus. Unimproved by labour;

Germany then, says Tacitus, was incult and horrid, now full of magnificent cities.-Burton. Anatomy of Mel. p. 322,

.

which they undertooke, especially hauing gone to the view of the world, through so many incombranla appointed of those agreements which led them y vndertake the service.Id. 18. vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 155.