The last was indeed the consideration that so much indeared Mr. Pope to him. He found him an honest and well-principled man.-Hurd. Life of Warburton. IN-DEAVOUR, v. Į INDEAVOUR, n. deavour, labour, enforce himself, to strive with might and main, to use his (utmost) strength, apply all his vigour, employ his (whole) power," (Cotgrave.) As leaf. }the Fr. S'efforcer," to en Now usually En. They cast them selues at Cesar's feet, and weepyng tolde him that they sought & indeuored no lesse to haue the thyngs kept secret whyche they should speake, then to obteyne the thyngs they sewed for.-Goldyng. Cæsar, fol. 23. But you patrician spirites that refine Your flesh to fire, and issue like a flame On braue indeuours.-Iackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 670. These, by how much more hard they are to intreat, by so much more precious they are, being obtained; and therefore worthier our indevour. Bp. Hall. The Art of Divine Meditation, c. 12. IN-DEBT, v. Į Lat. Debit-um, past part. of INDE BTMENT. Deb-ere; de, and hab-ere; quasi de alio hab-ere, (Vossius.) To have or hold, or cause to have or hold, of, or from another, his property or right, his due; that which is owed to him, which ought at some time to be delivered or paid to him; to be bound to return or repay. Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none, But t'all thy people universally; And not to them, but for their love alone, Which they account is placed worthily. Daniel. To the King's Majesty. For he began to flatter the common people, and specially those that were indebted: he took upon him to defend their causes, and pleaded their case at the bar against their creditors.-North. Plutarch, p. 128. Fear thou a worse Thou art imprisoned prison if thou wilt needs wilfully liue and dye in a just indebtment, when thou maiest be at once free and honest. Bp. Hall. Balm of Gilead. As a misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer, I shall present my readers, who are unhappy either in reality or imagination, with an allegory for which I am indebted to the great father and prince of poets.-Taller, No. 146. Whatever I may be able to do I stand indebted to Mr. Locke for, having learned from him which way to direct my observation and how to make use of what I observe. Search. Light of Nature, vol. i. pt. i. Introd. 1 IN-DE CENT. Also formerly Un. Fr. Indécent; It. and Sp. Indecente; Lat. In-decens. INDE'CENCE. Of all God's works, which do this world adorn, IN-DECIDUOUS. Deciduous is applied to trees, whose leaves fall; and is thus opposed to evergreens which are indeciduous, or do not fall the | The sun and Moon are usually described with humane faces; whether herein there be not a pagan imitation, and those visages at first implied Apollo and Diana, we may make some doubt, and we find the statua of the sun was framed with raies about the head, which were the indeciduous and unshaven locks of Apollo. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 21. IN-DECISIVE. Į It. Indecisivo; Fr. Indécis, INDECISION. "Indecision, an undecision (Cotgrave.) It is usual to write Undecided, (qv.) Lat. Decidere, to cut off, (sc.) dispute or discussion; and thus to determine, to adjudge; and hence Indecisive is— Not able to determine, adjudge, or conclude; indetermining, inconclusive, hesitating. A thousand such criticisms are altogether indecisive as to his general merit.-Blair. Lectures. Hitherto all their difficulties have arisen from their indecision, and their wrong measures. Burke. Letter to the Rt. Hon. Edmund Perry. But indecision, though a vice of a totally different character, is the natural accomplice of violence. Id. Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. IN-DECLINABLE. See Un. That may not be declined; that has no declension. But many of them [adverbs] are not of this character, and seem to have been contrived for no other purpose, but in order to express by one indeclinable word, what would otherwise have required two or three words, as well as a more artful syntax.-Beattie. Moral Science, pt. i. c. 1. s. 3. IN-DECOROUS. Lat. In-decorus. See Unfit, unbecoming, unseemly; applied not so strongly as indecent. As if a herald in the atchievement of a king, should commit the indecorum to set his helmet sideways and close, not full-faced and open in the posture of direction and command. Millon. Tetrachordon. The offence [loudness in the responses at church] mentioned in the following epistles (though it may seem to be committed in a place sacred from observation) is such that it is our duty to remark upon; for though he who does it is himself only guilty of an indecorum, he occasions a criminal levity in all others who are present at it.-Tatler, No. 54. At his time of life, if he could not do something by some sort of weight of opinion, natural or acquired, it was useless and indecorous to attempt any thing by mere struggle. Burke. On the Army Estimates, 1790. Some slight indecorums therefore we may reasonably expect to find, if the author (of Job) were indeed a Jew and such, if I am not much mistaken, we shall find. Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. vi. s. 2. Lat. In facto, in fact; used for IN-DEED. emphasis. Custance was yn deade never married to the Erle Edmunde, the wich yn deade truely maried Luce, sister to the Duke of Millain.-Leland. Collectanea, vol. ii. p. 451. I scapte the deth, I graunt, and brake the bands, Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii. IN-DEFATIGABLE. INDEFATIGABLY. INDEFATIGABLENESS. That cannot be wearied or tired, worn out or exhausted by labour. Sidney, Ps. 27. See Un. Fr. Indefatigable; It. Indefaticabile. Or spread his aerie flight Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii. If every man would consider God to be the great eye of the world watching perpetually over all our actions, and that his hand is indefatigable, and his ear ever open, possibly sin might be extirpated from off the face of the earth. Bp. Taylor. The Great Exemplar, pt. i. s. 9. The Prince of Hesse had many occasions given him to distinguish himself very eminently, both as to his courage, conduct, and indefatigable application. Burnet. Own Time, an. 1704. They come short of his indefatigableness. Parnell. Life of Zoilus, ad fin. If, say they, such a God as we are told of had created and formed us, surely he would have left upon our minds a native and indeleble inscription of himself, whereby we must needs have felt him without seeking him.-Bentley, Ser. 3. I am content to graut him for the while, that they wyl IN-DELAYED. Į Also formerly Un. } Sir T. More. Workes, p. 970. procrastinated or retarded. A man drinks himself into a present rage, or distraction of mind; in which condition he is perhaps carried to commit a rape or a murder, which action is indeed in itself sudden and indeliberate.-South, vol. vii. Ser. 10. If these be the limits of law to restrain sin, who so lame a sinner but may hop over them more easily than over those Romulean circumscriptions, not as Remus did with hard success, but with all indemnity ?-Milton. Tetrachordon. I believe the states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out on this occasion.-Sir W. Temple. To Lord Arlington. In the year of his Majesty's happy restoration, the first play I undertook was the Duke of Guise, as the fairest way which the act of indemnity had then left us of setting forth the rise of the late rebellion; and by exploding the villanies of it upon the stage, to precaution posterity against the like errors.-Dryden. Vindication of the Duke of Guise. Many persons are proprietors of slaves who have come innocently by them, and whom it would be difficult to indemnify, if a general emancipation of slaves in our colonies were immediately to take place. Beattie. Moral Science, pt. ii. s. 656. Indemnification is capable of some estimate; dignity has no standard.-Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 1. See UN. Lat. In IN-DEMONSTRABLE. demonstrabilis. That cannot be proved (by reasoning.) Because the degree of malignity in every errour was oftentimes undiscernable, and most commonly indemonstrable, their zeal was alike against all. Bp. Taylor. Liberty of Prophesying, s. 2. It is altogether as easy and as just for any man to reject them, as for those, that take them for granted, to assert them, being indeed all of them as indemonstrable as the conclusion to be inferred from them. More commonly En. IN-DENIZE. INDENIZATION. S To give or bestow (ex donatione regis) the rights of a natural born subject; to admit to the enjoyment of such rights. The beasts in euery glen, Which first to kill me had ordain'd, Were by my priuiledge restrain'd, Who indenized was within those bounds. Stirling. Aurora, s. 2. Amongst other things was a pardon to West, who being privy to the late conspiracy, had revealed the accomplices to save his own neck. There were also another pardon and two indenizations.-Evelyn. Memoirs, vol. i. an. 1686. Boyle. Works, vol. i. p. 560. We find likewise some of the axioms of geometry mentioned by Aristotle as axioms, and as indemonstrable principles of mathematical reasoning. Reid. On the Intellectual Powers, Ess. 6. c. 7. And ther was redy the seneschall of Carcassone, his baner before hym, the which was goules, a sheffe, syluer, thre cheuorns in the sheffe, bordred syluer indented. Berners. Froissart. Cronycie, vol. i. c. 60, We must shewe the kyng of England both your comission that you had aucthoritie to receiue it fro the French king, and also that you by your indenture, sealed with your seale of armes, shall confesse that you receiue the citie as a gift, and not rendred as a right to the kyng your master, or els be you sure that the citie shall not be deliuered. Hall. Hen. VIII. an. 10. With more noble and graceful severity than Popilius, the Roman legate, used with Antiochus, to limit and level out the direct way from vice to virtue, with straightest and exactest lines on either side, not winding or indenting so much as to the right hand of fair pretences. Milton. Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, b. ii. c. 14. Ant. When I presented it, I did not indent with her, to what use She should employ it. Massinger. A Very Woman, Act i. sc. 1: It shall not winde with such a deepe indent, Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act iii. sc. 1. But that which glads and makes him proud'st of all, Is when the brabling neighbours on him call For counsel in some crabbed case of law, Or some indentments, or some bond to draw. Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 2. Auxiliar to his son, Ulysses bears Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. xix. The spiry god unfolds his spheric form, Through large indentings draws his lubric train, And seeks the refuge of Apollo's fane. Welsted. Ovid. Metam. b. xv. Whose tempers, inclinations, sence, and wit, Like two indentures, did agree so fit. Butler. Upon Human Learning, pt. ii. The coast, which is low, seemed to be indented into creeks and projecting points; or else these points were small isles lying under the shore.-Cook. Second Voyage, b. iii. c. 12. If a deed be made by more parties than one, there ought to be regularly as many copies of it as there are parties, and each should be cut or indented (formerly in acute angles instar dentium, like the teeth of a saw, but at present in a waving line) on the top or side, to tally or correspond with the other; which deed so made is called an indenture.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 20. IN-DEPENDENT, adj. Fr. Indépendant; It. and Sp. Independente. Not hanging from or resting or relying upon; not sustained or supported by, unsustained, unsupported; unconnected; not connected with, as inferior or subordinate to; not subservient or subject to. But some of the former army, eminent enough for their own martial deeds, and prevalent in the House of Commons, touch'd with envy to be so far outdone by a new model which they contemn'd, took advantage of Presbyterian and Independent names, and the virulence of some ministers, to raise disturbance.-Milton. An Answer to Eikon Basilike: They that we call Independents, are only such as hold that no classis or synods have a superiority over any particular church, and that therfore they ought all to be pluck'd up by the roots, as branches, or rather as the very trunk of hierarchy itself.-Milton. Def. of the People of England. Or else, that although there be in truth such a being as God, yet the world had not this its eternal existence by any derivation or influx from Him, but hath it absolutely and independently.-Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 71. Some there are (they know) which can be content to admit of an orderly subordination of severall parishes to presbyteries, and those again to synods; others are all for a parochiall absolutenesse and independence. Bp. Hall. An Humble Remonstrance. Yet [you Salmasius] assert to the highest degree that can be, the independency of a king, whom you defend; and will not allow him to owe his sovereignty to the people, but to his descent.-Milton. A Defence of the People of England. These, therefore, being distinct and proper actions, do necessarily evince an independing and self-subsisting agent. Bp. Hall. The Invisible World, b. ii. s. 1. Either there has always existed some one unchangeable and independent Being, from which all other beings that are or ever were in the universe, have received their original; or else there has been an infinite succession of changeable and dependent beings, produced one from another in an endless progression, without any original cause at all. Clarke. On the Attributes, Prop. 2. The eternal height of indetermin'd space! The eternal depth of condescending grace! Brooke. Universal Beauty, b. v. Positive constitutions or judicial authorities are, in like manner, wanted to give precision to many things, which are in their nature indeterminate. Paley. Moral Philosophy, b. vi. c. 8. Thus, by the mediation of a second Adam, are we delivered from the worst and most dreadful part of the sentence on the first; that which denounced death absolutely and indeterminately.-Law. Theory of Religion, pt. iii. Disc. 2. IN-DEVIRGINATE. Devirginate, (qv.) to cause to be no longer a virgin: and Indevirginate,Still a virgin; not deprived of virginity Ye three there are, Whose mindes, she neither can deceiue nor moue; Pallas, the seede of Ægis-bearing Joue; Who still liues indeuirginate; her eyes Being blew, and sparkling like the freezing skies. Chapman. Homer. A Hymn to Venus. IN-DEVOTE. See UNDEVOUT. Fr. InINDEVOTED. dévot; Sp. Indevoto; in, and INDEVOTION. devote, (qv.) Lat. De-votum. INDEVOU'T. Not pledged or promised, dedicated or given up to; not given, (se.) to godliness, piety, or religion; ungodly, irreligious. If we be not unacquainted with ourselves, we are sc conscious of our own weaknesse, that we know every puffe of temptation is able to blowe us over; they are only our prayers that must stay us from being carried away with the violent assaults of discontentment; under which, a praying soul can no more miscarry, than an indevout soul can enjoy safety.-Bp. Hall. Of Contentation. But if we live in an age of indevotion, we think ourselves well assoiled if we be warmer then their ice. Bp. Taylor. The Great Exemplar, pt. i. ad s. 5. It would be remembred that the Baptist did more upon a lesse necessity, and possibly the greatnesse of the example may entice us on a little further, then the customs of the world or our own indevotions would engage us. Id. Ib. pt. i. ad s. 8. Mr. Wotton tells me he has disposed of all the Tabulæ, and Mr. Mortlock says the same, and you will have your money by Dr. Mills or me; but they give no good account of the other little book. There are so many of the same arguments, and so indevote an age. But you must have a little patience.-Bentley. Letter, p. 181. So neither is that devotion, which is kindled by the eloquence of an indevout preacher, any wit the less acceptable to God for their not being themselves affected with the zeal they beget in others.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 457. What pity, that Mr. Cowley's connections with some persons indevoted to the excellent chancellor, kept him at a distance from a man, so congenial to himself, and for whom he could not but entertain the highest esteem! Hurd, Dial. 3. On Retirement. Note. I'NDEX. Fr. and It. Indice; Sp. Index; To signify or give sign or notice of, to announce, to betoken, to show, to point out, to disclose, to discover. Methinks 'tis a pitiful piece of knowledge, that can be learnt from an index; and a poor ambition to be rich in the inventory of another's treasure. Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 15. He [Demacatus] answer'd: A foole could never hold his peace. For too much talking is ever the indice of a foole. B. Jonson. Discoveries. To suppose a watch, or any other the most curious automaton, by the blind hits of chance, to perform diversity of orderly motions, to indicate the hour, day of the moneth, tides, age of the moon, and the like, with an unparalleï'd exactness, and all without the regulation of art, this were the more pardonable absurdity. Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, e. 5. And that in the plain table there had not been only the description and indication of hours, but the configurations and indications of the various phases of the moon, the motion and place of the sun in the ecliptick, and divers other curious indications of celestial motions. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 340. And I understand, though not the degree and excellency, yet the truth of this manner of operation in the instance of Isaac blessing Jacob, which in the several parts was expressed in all forms, indicative, optative, enunciative. Bp. Taylor. Ser. Divine Institution of the Office Ministerial. Yet I half suspect he went no farther for his learning than the index of Hebrew names and etymologies, which is printed at the end of some English Bibles. Dryden. Dedication of the Medal. How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. Pope. Dunciad, b il The wise and sovereign physician of souls, who considers not so much what we do wish, as what we should wish. often discerns, that this præternatural thirst indicates and calls for a lancet, rather than a julep, and knows it best to attempt the cure, rather by taking away somewhat that we have, than by giving that, which only a spiritual superfluity reduces us to want.-Boyle. Works, vol. ii. p. 370. All deuoide of conning and experience Maner of inditing, reason and eloquence. Chaucer. A Balade. The Ten Commaundements of Loue. For first the place now appointed, and all places heretofore appointed by the Bps of Rome, taking upon themselves to indict councils, is, and have ever been of late within their own dominions or so near to the same that thereby they have assured to themselves to be both judges and parties in all things that may in any thing touch them or their usurped uthority.-K. Hen. VIII. to Wyatt, an. 29. Faire Mirabella was her name whereby Of all those crimes she there indited was. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 7. But why not the king's parliament, since the king sumnons them? I'll tell you why; because the consuls used to ndict a meeting of the senate, yet were they not lords over hat council.-Milton. A Defence of the People of England. On the twenty-ninth of April, in the same year, 1511, one William Carder of Tenterden being indicted on the former rticles, he denied them all but one, That he had said it as enough to pray to Almighty God alone, and therefore e needed not to pray to saints for any mediation. Burnet. History of the Reformation, an. 1511. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!' Certainly, ere is something in them more than ordinary. For, could common grief have indited such expressions? South, vol. ix. Ser 1. Art thou not angry, Learning's great protector, Smart. The Hilliad, Epigram in the Notes. The name and use of the Indictions, which serve to ascertain the chronology of the middle ages, was derived from the regular practice of the Roman Tributes. The emperor subscribed with his own hand, and in purple ink the solemn edict or indiction, which was fixed up in the principal city of each diocese, during two months previous to the first day of September. And by a very easy connection of ideas, the word indiction was transferred to the measure of tribute which it prescribed, and to the annual term which it allowed for payment.-Gibbon. Roman Empire, c. 17. IN-DIFFERENT. INDIFFERENCE. For with indifferent eyes my self can well discerne, Whose practise if were proved in calme to stere a barge, Surrey. An Answere in the behalfe of a Woman, &c. And because also that all ceremonies and shadowes ceased whe Christ came. So that they might be done or left vndone indifferetly.-Fryth. Workes, fol. 96. ; All men deem thus, that to have need goeth before indigence, supposing him that standeth in need of things which are not ready at hand, nor easy to be gotten, is indigent. To make this more plain, no man is said to be indigent of horns or of wings, for that he hath no need of them; but we say truly and properly that some have need of armour, of money, Fr. Indifférent; It. and and of apparell, when in the penury and want of these things Sp. their necessity.-Holland. Plutarch, p. 893. In-differens. Having no or but little difference or distinction; no cause for, no qualities deserving of, distinction, or preference, or choice; and thus, as applied to persons or things, middling or moderate; as applied to persons, impartial, disinterested; having no anxiety or solicitude; careless. INDIFFERENCY. Maister More in his said Apology addeth immediately to those wordes of mine, wordes of his owne putting in, which be these: That he is through such pryde farre fro such inwhich he sayth I assigne.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1008. difference & equitie, as ought and must be in the judges And farthermore though it were as Maister More taketh In choice of committees, for ripening businesse, for the counsell, it is better to choose indifferent persons than to make an indifferency, by putting in those, that are strong on both sides.-Bacon. Ess. Of Counsell. Die is my due: yet rue my wretched state, If we lov'd passionately, what we ask for daily, we should present spirit; and however it be very easie to have our ask with hearty desires and an earnest appetite, and a thoughts wander, yet it is our indifferency and lukewarmness that makes it so natural.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 13. Even the greatest masters commonly fall short of the best Some passion (if we are not impassive) must be moved; for the general conduct of mankind is by no means a thing indifferent to a reasonable and virtuous man. Young. Love of Fame, Pref. We find the knights errant, as they were now properly styled, wandering the world over in search of occasions on which to exercise their generous and disinterested valour indifferently to friends and enemies in distress. Hurd. On Chivalry & Romance, Let. 3. In matters of religion he [the upright man] hath the indifference of a traveller, whose great concernment is to arrive at his journey's end; but for the way that leads thither, be it high or low, all is one to him, so long as he is but certain that he is in the right way.-Sharp, vol. i. Ser. 5. The advantage attending the second kind of judicature (where the judge is determined by lot at the time of the trial, and for that turn only) is indifferency. Paley. Moral and Political Philosophy, b. vi. c. 8. INDIGENT. } Fr. Indigent; It. and Sp. Indigente; Lat. Indigens, pres. part. of in-dig-ere, in, and egere, Therefore that worde maturitie is translated to the actes of man, that whan they be doone with suche moderation, that nothing in the doinge may be sene superfluous or indiget, we may say that they be maturely doone. Sir T. Elyot. The Governour, b. i. c. 12. Prol. of R. Copland. Early Popular Poetry, vol. ii. IN-DIGN. Indignant, sensible of unworthy, undeserved treatment, of contumely or insult, of ill conduct; and, consequentially-offended, provoked, angry ; feeling a disdainful or contemptuous anger or resentment. Al bittyrnesse, and wratthe, and yndignacioun, and cry, and blasfemye be taken awei fro ghou, with al malice. Wielif. Effesies, c. 4. Wondring upon this thing, quaking for drede, Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8235. Our general at this place and time thinking himselfe, both in respect of his priuate iniuries received from the Spaniards, as also of their contempts and indignities offered to our countrey and prince in general, sufficiently satisfied and revenged, &c.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 440, So much her malice did her might surpass, With great indignance he that sight forsooke, And as for the crosses and adversities that befell us during that time, we may report them with lesse griefe and indignation, than those that this day light upon us. Holland. Livivs, p. 503. Id. Ib. e. 11 The Israelites were but slaues, and the Philistins were theire masters: so much more indignely, therefore, must they needs take it, to be thus affronted by one of theire owne vassals.-Bp. Hall. Cont. Samson's Victory. Some are not capable of rational answers especially in I deeme it best to hold eternally, Spenser. Colin Clout's come Home againe. Id. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 1. Id. Ib. b. iv. c. 7. Bp. Hall. An Humble Man. To others he wrote not, especially the mayor, because he took himself so indignantly used by him, as he disdained so far to grace him.-Strype. Life of Abp. Whitgift, an. 1602. Fierce from his seat at this Ulysses springs, He views the wretch, and sternly thus replies. Sir W. Temple. Letter to my Lord Keeper, March 23, 1688. Akenside. To the Honourable Charles Townshend. IN-DILIGENT. Take an heretick, a rebel, a person that hath an ill cause Were it not a dishonour to a mighty prince, to have the majesty of his embassage spoyled by a carelesse ambassadour? and is it not as great an indignity, that an excellent conceit and capacity, by the indiligence of an idle tongue, should be disgrac'd.-B. Jonson. Discoveries. Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 5. lessened. I easily believe his matie will neither believe the time long IN-DIMINISHABLE. That cannot be or become less, cannot be IN-DIPT. A. S. Dippan, to sink, to immerge, to plunge. Dipt in. Have they not been bold of late to check the common law, to slight and brave the indiminishable majesty of our highest court, the law-giving and sacred parlament. Milton. Of Reformation in England. There is no way to get up to respect, Of my employment.-Ford. Perkin Warbeck, Act iii. sc.3. King David found this deflection and indirectnes in our minds, when he proclaimed, that verities are diminished from the sonnes of men, they speake vanity every one with his neighbour, with flattering lips and double heart. Mountague. Devoute Essayes, pt. i. Treat. 10. s. 5. The judges ought to be plentifully provided for, that they may be under no temptation to supply themselves by indirect ways.-Burnet. Own Time. The Conclusion. Virgil loves to suggest a truth indirectly, and, without giving us a full and open view of it, to let us see just so much as will naturally lead the imagination into all the parts that lie concealed.-Addison. Essay on Virgil's Georgies. See UN. Fr. Indiligent; The greatest mischiefs find it necessary to use art and fallacy to make their approach indiscernible by the smal or execute; indolent, idle. IN-DISCE RPIBLE. I have taken the boldness to assert, that matter consists of parts indiscerpible, understanding by indiscerpible parta. particles that have indeed real extension, but so little, thes they cannot have less and be any thing at all, and therefore cannot be actually divided. H. More. Immortality of the Soul, Pref. The state not knowing how to tax, directly and propertionably, the revenue of its subjects, endeavours to tax t indirectly by taxing their expense, which, it is supposed will in most cases be nearly in proportion to their revenue. Smith. Wealth of Nations, vol. iii, b. v. c. 2 IN-DISCERNIBLE. Į Also written Un, and INDISCERNIBLENESS. now most commonly Un-discerned. In, and discernible, from discern, (qv.) Lat. Dis-cernere, to separate one thing from another; to distinguish. Not to be seen or perceived distinctly, not to be distinguished or discriminated; indistinguishable; invisible. I should haue shew'd you also the indiscernibleness ta the eye of man) of the difference of these distant states, to God by his promulgate sentence haue made the separation. Hammond. Works, vol. iv. p. 494. And these small and almost indiscernible beginnings and seeds of ill humour, have ever since gone on in a very visible increase and progress.—Burnet. Own Time, an. 168. |