Incorrigible In·cor"ri·gi·ble noun One who is incorrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles .

Incorrigibleness In·cor"ri·gi·ble·ness noun Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.

Incorrigibly In·cor"ri·gi·bly adverb In an incorrigible manner.

Incorrodible In`cor·rod"i·ble adjective Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away.

Incorrupt In`cor·rupt" adjective [ Latin incorruptus . See In- not, and Corrupt .]

1. Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.

2. Not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; above the influence of bribes; upright; honest. Milton.

Your Christian principles . . . which will preserve you incorrupt as individuals.

Bp. Hurd.

Incorrupted In`cor·rupt"ed adjective Uncorrupted. [ Obsolete]

Breathed into their incorrupted breasts.

Sir J. Davies.

Incorruptibility In`cor·rupt`i·bil"i·ty noun [ Latin incorruptibilitas : confer French incorruptibilité .] The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland.

Incorruptible In`cor·rupt"i·ble adjective [ Latin incorruptibilis : confer French incorruptible . See In- not, and Corrupt .]

1. Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible .

Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances.

Wake.

2. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.

Incorruptible In`cor·rupt"i·ble noun (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious sect which arose in Alexandria, in the reign of the Emperor Justinian, and which believed that the body of Christ was incorruptible, and that he suffered hunger, thirst, pain, only in appearance.

Incorruptibleness In`cor·rupt"i·ble·ness noun The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.

Incorruptibly In`cor·rupt"i·bly adverb In an incorruptible manner.

Incorruption In`cor·rup"tion noun [ Latin incorruptio : confer French incorruption . See In- not, and Corruption .] The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption.

It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption .

1 Cor. xv. 42.

The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption , we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc.

Sir T. Browne.

Incorruptive In`cor·rupt"ive adjective [ Latin incorruptivus .] Incorruptible; not liable to decay. Akenside.

Incorruptly In`cor·rupt"ly adverb Without corruption.

To demean themselves incorruptly .

Milton.

Incorruptness In`cor·rupt"ness noun 1. Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.

2. Probity; integrity; honesty. Woodward.

Incoördinate In`co·ör"di·nate adjective Not coördinate.

Incoördination In`co·ör`di·na"tion noun Want of coördination; lack of harmonious adjustment or action.

Incoördination of muscular movement (Physiol.) , irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them.

Incrassate In·cras"sate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Incrassated ; present participle & verbal noun Incrassating .] [ Latin incrassatus , past participle of incrassare ; prefix in- in + crassus thick.] To make thick or thicker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts.

Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate .

Sir I. Newton.

Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies.

Sir T. Browne.

Incrassate In·cras"sate intransitive verb To become thick or thicker.

Incrassate, Incrassated In·cras"sate, In·cras"sa·ted adjective [ Latin incrassatus , past participle ]

1. Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.

2. (Botany) Thickened; becoming thicker. Martyn.

3. (Zoology) Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennæ of certain insects.

Incrassation In`cras·sa"tion noun [ Confer French incrassation .]

1. The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.

2. The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation. Sir T. Browne.

Incrassative In·cras"sa·tive adjective Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken. Harvey.

Incrassative In·cras"sa·tive noun A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors. Harvey.

Increasable In·creas"a·ble adjective Capable of being increased. Sherwood. -- In*creas"a*ble*ness , noun

An indefinite increasableness of some of our ideas.

Bp. Law.

Increase In·crease" intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Increased ; present participle & verbal noun Increasing .] [ Middle English incresen , encresen , enrescen , Old French encreistre , from Latin increscere ; prefix in- in + crescere to grow. See Crescent , and confer Decrease .]

1. To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease .

The waters increased and bare up the ark.

Gen. vii. 17.

He must increase , but I must decrease.

John iii. 30.

The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase ,
Even as our days do grow!

Shak.

2. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

Fishes are more numerous or increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn.

Sir M. Hale.

3. (Astron.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases .

Increasing function (Math.) , a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished.

Syn. -- To enlarge; extend; multiply; expand; develop; heighten; amplify; raise; enhance; spread; aggravate; magnify; augment; advance. -- To Increase , Enlarge , Extend . Enlarge implies to make larger or broader in size. Extend marks the progress of enlargement so as to have wider boundaries. Increase denotes enlargement by growth and internal vitality, as in the case of plants. A kingdom is enlarged by the addition of new territories; the mind is enlarged by knowledge. A kingdom is extended when its boundaries are carried to a greater distance from the center. A man's riches, honors, knowledge, etc., are increased by accessions which are made from time to time.

Increase In·crease" transitive verb To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.

I will increase the famine.

Ezek. v. 16.

Make denials
Increase your services.

Shak.

Increase In"crease noun [ Middle English encres , encresse . See Increase , intransitive verb ]

1. Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.

As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.

Shak.

For things of tender kind for pleasure made
Shoot up with swift increase , and sudden are decay'd.

Dryden.

2. That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.

Take thou no usury of him, or increase .

Lev. xxv. 36.

Let them not live to taste this land's increase .

Shak.

3. Progeny; issue; offspring.

All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.

1 Sam. ii. 33.

4. Generation. [ Obsolete] "Organs of increase ." Shak.

5. (Astron.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.

Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon.

Bacon.

Increase twist , the twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle.

Syn. -- Enlargement; extension; growth; development; increment; addition; accession; production.

Increaseful In·crease"ful adjective Full of increase; abundant in produce. " Increaseful crops." [ R.] Shak.

Increasement In·crease"ment noun Increase. [ R.] Bacon.

Increaser In·creas"er noun One who, or that, increases.

Increasingly In·creas"ing·ly adverb More and more.

Increate In`cre·ate" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Increated ; present participle & verbal noun Increating .] [ Prefix in- in + create .] To create within. [ R.]

Increate, Increated In"cre·ate, In"cre·a`ted adjective [ Latin increatus . See In- not, and Create .] Uncreated; self-existent. [ R.]

Bright effluence of bright essence increate .

Milton.

Incredibility In·cred`i·bil"i·ty noun [ Latin incredibilitas : confer French incrédibilité .]

1. The quality or state of being incredible; incredibleness. Dryden.

2. That which is incredible. Johnson.

Incredible In·cred"i·ble adjective [ Latin incredibilis : confer Old French incredible . See In- not, and Credible .] Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous.

Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

Acts xxvi. 8.

Incredibleness In·cred"i·ble·ness noun Incredibility.

Incredibly In·cred"i·bly adverb In an incredible manner.

Incredited In·cred"it·ed adjective Uncredited. [ Obsolete]

Incredulity In`cre·du"li·ty noun [ Latin incredulitas : confer French incrédulité .] The state or quality of being incredulous; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.

Of every species of incredulity , religious unbelief is the most irrational.

Buckminster.

Incredulous In·cred"u·lous adjective [ Latin incredulus . See In- not, and Credulous .]

1. Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. Bacon.

A fantastical incredulous fool.

Bp. Wilkins.

2. Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity. "An incredulous smile." Longfellow.

3. Incredible; not easy to be believed. [ R.] Shak.

Incredulously In·cred"u·lous·ly adverb In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.

Incredulousness In·cred"u·lous·ness noun Incredulity.

Incremable In·crem"a·ble adjective [ Prefix in- not + Latin cremabilis combustible, from cremare to burn.] Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe. Sir T. Browne.

Incremate In"cre·mate transitive verb [ Prefix in- in + cremate .] To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate.

Incremation In`cre·ma"tion noun Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation.

Increment In"cre·ment noun [ Latin incrementum : confer French incrément . See Increase .]

1. The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.

The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies.

Woodward.

A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Coleridge.

2. Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement . "Large increment ." J. Philips.

3. (Math.) The increase of a variable quantity or fraction from its present value to its next ascending value; the finite quantity, generally variable, by which a variable quantity is increased.

4. (Rhet.) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things.

Phil. iv. 8.

Infinitesimal increment (Math.) , an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See Calculus . -- Method of increments (Math.) , a calculus founded on the properties of the successive values of variable quantities and their differences or increments. It differs from the method of fluxions in treating these differences as finite, instead of infinitely small, and is equivalent to the calculus of finite differences .

Incremental In`cre·men"tal adjective (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

Increpate In"cre·pate transitive verb [ Latin increpatus , past participle of increpare to upbraid; prefix in- in, against + crepare to talk noisily.] To chide; to rebuke; to reprove. [ Obsolete]

Increpation In`cre·pa"tion noun [ Latin increpatio .] A chiding; rebuke; reproof. [ Obsolete] Hammond.

Increscent In·cres"cent adjective [ Latin increscens , -entis , present participle of increscere . See Increase .]

1. Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.

Between the incresent and decrescent moon.

Tennyson.

2. (Her.) Increasing; on the increase; -- said of the moon represented as the new moon, with the points turned toward the dexter side.

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