Inhibitory In·hib"i·to·ry adjective [ Late Latin inhibitorius : confer French inhibitoire .] Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.

I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory .

Lamb.

Inhibitory nerves (Physiol.) , those nerves which modify, inhibit, or suppress a motor or secretory act already in progress.

Inhibitory-motor In·hib"i·to·ry-mo"tor adjective (Physiol.) A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. McKendrick.

Inhive In·hive" transitive verb To place in a hive; to hive.

Inhold In·hold" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Inheld ; present participle & verbal noun Inholding .] To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. [ Obsolete] Sir W. Raleigh.

Inholder In·hold"er noun An inhabitant. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Inhoop In·hoop" transitive verb To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop. [ R.] Shak.

Inhospitable In·hos"pi·ta·ble adjective [ Prefix in- not + hospitable : confer Latin inhospitalis .]

1. Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.

Have you no touch of pity, that the poor
Stand starved at your inhospitable door?

Cowper.

2. Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. " Inhospitable wastes." Blair.

-- In*hos"pi*ta*ble*ness , noun -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly , adverb

Inhospitality In·hos`pi·tal"i·ty noun [ Latin inhospitalitas : confer French inhospitalité . See In- not, and Hospitality .] The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. Bp. Hall.

Inhuman In·hu"man adjective [ Latin inhumanus : confer French inhumain . See In- not, and Human .]

1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.

2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.

Syn. -- Cruel; unfeeling; pitiless; merciless; savage; barbarous; brutal; ferocious; ruthless; fiendish.

Inhumanity In`hu·man"i·ty noun ; plural Inhumanities . [ Latin inhumanitas : confer French inhumanité .] The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity.

Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.

Burns.

Inhumanly In·hu"man·ly adverb In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.

Inhumate In·hu"mate transitive verb [ Latin inhumatus , past participle of inhumare to inhume; prefix in- in + humare to cover with earth. See Humation , and confer Inhume .] To inhume; to bury; to inter. Hedge.

Inhumation In`hu·ma"tion noun [ Confer French inhumation .]

1. The act of inhuming or burying; interment.

2. (Old Chem.) The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.

3. (Medicine) Arenation.

Inhume In·hume" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Inhumed ; present participle & verbal noun Inhuming .] [ Confer French inhumer . See Inhumate .]

1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.

Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain,
Inhume the natives in their native plain.

Pope.

2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.

Inia In"i·a noun (Zoology) A South American freshwater dolphin ( Inia Boliviensis ). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.

Inial In"i·al adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to the inion.

Inimaginable In`im·ag"i·na·ble adjective Unimaginable; inconceivable. [ R.] Bp. Pearson.

Inimical In·im"i·cal adjective [ Latin inimicalis , from inimicus unfriendly, hostile; prefix in- not + amicus friendly. See Amity .]

1. Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private , as hostile is to public , enmity.

2. Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.

We are at war with a system, which, by its essence, is inimical to all other governments.

Burke.

Inimicality In·im`i·cal"i·ty noun The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness. [ R.]

Inimically In·im"i·cal·ly adverb In an inimical manner.

Inimicitious In·im`i·ci"tious adjective [ Latin inimicitia enmity. See Inimical .] Inimical; unfriendly. [ R.] Sterne.

Inimicous In·im"i·cous adjective [ Latin inimicus .] Inimical; hurtful. [ Obsolete] Evelyn.

Inimitability In·im`i·ta·bil"i·ty noun The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness. Norris.

Inimitable In·im"i·ta·ble adjective [ Latin inimitabilis : confer French inimitable . See In- not, and Imitable .] Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence. " Inimitable force." Dryden.

Performing such inimitable feats.

Cowper.

-- In*im"i*ta*ble*ness , noun -- In*im"i*ta*bly , adverb

Inion In"i·on noun [ New Latin , from Greek 'ini`on the back of the head.] (Anat.) The external occipital protuberance of the skull.

Iniquitous In·iq"ui·tous adjective [ From Iniquity .] Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding.

Demagogues . . . bribed to this iniquitous service.

Burke.

Syn. -- Wicked; wrong; unjust; unrighteous; nefarious; criminal. -- Iniquitous , Wicked , Nefarious . Wicked is the generic term. Iniquitous is stronger, denoting a violation of the rights of others, usually by fraud or circumvention. Nefarious is still stronger, implying a breach of the most sacred obligations, and points more directly to the intrinsic badness of the deed.

Iniquitously In·iq"ui·tous·ly adverb In an iniquitous manner; unjustly; wickedly.

Iniquity In·iq"ui·ty noun ; plural Iniquities . [ Middle English iniquitee , French iniquité , Latin iniquitas , inequality, unfairness, injustice. See Iniquous .]

1. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.

Till the world from his perfection fell
Into all filth and foul iniquity .

Spenser.

2. An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime. Milton.

Your iniquities have separated between you and your God.

Is. lix. 2.

3. A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice .

Acts old Iniquity , and in the fit
Of miming gets the opinion of a wit.

B. Jonson.

Iniquous In·i"quous adjective [ Latin iniquus ; prefix in- not + aequus . See Equal .] Iniquitous. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

Inirritable In·ir"ri·ta·ble adjective [ Prefix in- not + irritable : confer French inirritable .] Not irritable; esp. (Physiol.) , incapable of being stimulated to action, as a muscle. -- In*ir`ri*ta*bil"i*ty noun

Inirritative In·ir"ri·ta·tive adjective Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. E. Darwin.

Inisle In·isle" transitive verb [ Confer Enisled .] To form into an island; to surround. [ Obsolete] Drayton.

Initial In·i"tial adjective [ Latin initialis , from initium a going in, entrance, beginning, from inire to go into, to enter, begin; prefix in- in + ire to go: confer French initial . See Issue , and confer Commence .]

1. Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

2. Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.

Initial In·i"tial noun The first letter of a word or a name.

Initial In·i"tial transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Initialed ; present participle & verbal noun Initialing .] To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials. [ R.]

Initially In·i"tial·ly adverb In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning. Barrow.

Initiate In·i"ti·ate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Initiated ; present participle & verbal noun Initiating .] [ Latin initiatus , past participle of initiare to begin, from initium beginning. See Initial .]

1. To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

How are changes of this sort to be initiated ?

I. Taylor.

2. To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.

Providence would only initiate mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry.

Dr. H. More.

To initiate his pupil into any part of learning, an ordinary skill in the governor is enough.

Locke.

3. To introduce into a society or organization; to confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.

The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honor after death.

Bp. Warburton.

He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty.

Spectator.

Initiate In·i"ti·ate intransitive verb To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative. [ R.] Pope.

Initiate In·i"ti·ate adjective [ Latin initiatus , past participle ]

1. Unpracticed; untried; new. [ Obsolete] "The initiate fear that wants hard use." Shak.

2. Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.

To rise in science as in bliss,
Initiate in the secrets of the skies.

Young.

Initiate tenant by courtesy (Law) , said of a husband who becomes such in his wife's estate of inheritance by the birth of a child, but whose estate is not consummated till the death of the wife. Mozley & W.

Initiate In·i"ti·ate noun One who is, or is to be, initiated.

Initiation In·i`ti·a"tion noun [ Latin initiatio : confer French initiation .]

1. The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc. "The initiation of courses of events." Pope.

2. The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.

Silence is the first thing that is taught us at our initiation into sacred mysteries.

Broome.

Initiative In·i"ti·a·tive adjective [ Confer French initiatif .] Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

Initiative In·i"ti·a·tive noun [ Confer French initiative .]

1. An introductory step or movement; an act which originates or begins.

The undeveloped initiatives of good things to come.

I. Taylor.

2. The right or power to introduce a new measure or course of action, as in legislation; as, the initiative in respect to revenue bills is in the House of Representatives.

Initiative In·i"ti·a·tive noun (Political Science) The right or procedure by which legislation may be introduced or enacted directly by the people, as in the Swiss Confederation and in many of the States of the United States; -- chiefly used with the . The procedure of the initiative is essentially as follows: Upon the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters the desired measure must be submitted to a popular vote, and upon receiving the required majority (commonly a majority of those voting on the measure submitted) it becomes a law. In some States of the United States the initiative is only local; in others it is state-wide and includes the making of constitutional amendments.

Initiator In·i"ti·a`tor noun [ Latin ] One who initiates.

Initiatory In·i"ti·a·to·ry adjective 1. Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step. Bp. Hall.

2. Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.

Some initiatory treatises in the law.

Herbert.

Two initiatory rites of the same general import can not exist together.

J. M. Mason.

Initiatory In·i"ti·a·to·ry noun An introductory act or rite. [ R.]

Inition In·i"tion noun [ Confer Old French inition . See Initial .] Initiation; beginning. [ Obsolete] Sir R. Naunton.

Inject In·ject" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Injected ; present participle & verbal noun Injecting .] [ Latin injectus , past participle of inicere , injicere , to throw in; prefix in- in + jacere to throw: confer French injecter . See Jet a shooting forth.]

1. To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.

2. Fig.: To throw; to offer; to propose; to instill.

Cæsar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.

Milton.

3. To cast or throw; -- with on . [ R.]

And mound inject on mound.

Pope.

4. (Anat.) To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.

Injection In·jec"tion noun [ Latin injectio : confer French injection .] 1. The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aëriform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.

2. That which is injected; especially, a liquid medicine thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema. Mayne.

3. (Anat.) (a) The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance. (b) A specimen prepared by injection.

4. (Steam Eng.) (a) The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum. (b) The cold water thrown into a condenser.

Injection cock , or Injection valve (Steam Eng.) , the cock or valve through which cold water is admitted into a condenser. -- Injection condenser . See under Condenser . -- Injection pipe , the pipe through which cold water is through into the condenser of a steam engine.

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