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Incorrigibleness (?), n. Incorrigibility. Dr. H. More.
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Incorrigibly, adv. In an incorrigible manner.
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Incorrodible (?), a. Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away.
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Incorrupt (?), a. [L. incorruptus. See not, and .]
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1. Not affected with corruption or decay; unimpaired; not marred or spoiled.
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2. Not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; above the influence of bribes; upright; honest. Milton.
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Your Christian principles . . . which will preserve you incorrupt as individuals. Bp. Hurd.
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Incorrupted (?), a. Uncorrupted. [Obs.]
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Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies.
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Incorruptibility (?), n. [L. incorruptibilitas: cf. F. incorruptibilité.] The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland.
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Incorruptible (?), a. [L. incorruptibilis: cf. F. incorruptible. See not, and .]
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1. Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible.
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Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.
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2. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and upright.
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Incorruptible, n. (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.
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Incorruptibleness, n. The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.
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Incorruptibly, adv. In an incorruptible manner.
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Incorruption (?), n. [L. incorruptio: cf. F. incorruption. See not, and .] The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption.
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It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv. 42.
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The same preservation, or, rather, incorruption, we have observed in the flesh of turkeys, capons, etc. Sir T. Browne.
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Incorruptive (?), a. [L. incorruptivus.] Incorruptible; not liable to decay. Akenside.
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Incorruptly (?), adv. Without corruption.
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To demean themselves incorruptly. Milton.
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Incorruptness, n. 1. Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.
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2. Probity; integrity; honesty. Woodward.
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Incrassate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incrassated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Incrassating.] [L. incrassatus, p. p. of incrassare; pref. 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.
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Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. Sir I. Newton.
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Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. Sir T. Browne.
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Incrassate, v. i. To become thick or thicker.

{ Incrassate (?), Incrassated (?), } a. [L. incrassatus, p. p.]
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1. Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.
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2. (Bot.) Thickened; becoming thicker. Martyn.
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3. (Zoöl.) Swelled out on some particular part, as the antennæ of certain insects.
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Incrassation (?), n. [Cf. F. incrassation.]
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1. The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.
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2. The state of being incrassated or made thick; inspissation. Sir T. Browne.
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Incrassative (?), a. Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken. Harvey.
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Incrassative, n. A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors. Harvey.
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Increasable (?), a. Capable of being increased. Sherwood. -- Increasableness, n.
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An indefinite increasableness of some of our ideas. Bp. Law.
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Increase (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Increased (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Increasing.] [OE. incresen, encresen, enrescen, OF. encreistre, fr. L. increscere; pref. in- in + crescere to grow. See , and cf. .]
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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.
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The waters increased and bare up the ark. Gen. vii. 17.
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He must increase, but I must decrease. John iii. 30.
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The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase,
Even as our days do grow! Shak.
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2. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
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Fishes are more numerous or increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn. Sir M. Hale.
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3. (Astron.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
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Coloq. Increasing function (Math.), a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished; also called a monotonically increasing function.

Syn. -- To enlarge; extend; multiply; expand; develop; heighten; amplify; raise; enhance; spread; aggravate; magnify; augment; advance. -- To , , . 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.
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Increase (?), v. t. 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.
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I will increase the famine. Ezek. v. 16.
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Make denials
Increase your services. Shak.
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Increase (?; 277), n. [OE. encres, encresse. See , v. i.]
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1. Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
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As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on. Shak.
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For things of tender kind for pleasure made
Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd. Dryden.
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2. That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
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Take thou no usury of him, or increase. Lev. xxv. 36.
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Let them not live to taste this land's increase. Shak.
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3. Progeny; issue; offspring.
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All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. 1 Sam. ii. 33.
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4. Generation. [Obs.] “Organs of increase.” Shak.
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5. (Astron.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.
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Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon.
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Coloq. 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.
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increased adj. 1. made greater in size or amount or degree. Opposite of decreased. [Narrower terms: augmented ; exaggerated, hyperbolic, inflated; exaggerated, magnified, enlarged ; raised(prenominal), inflated ]
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Increaseful (?), a. Full of increase; abundant in produce. “Increaseful crops.” [R.] Shak.
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Increasement (?), n. Increase. [R.] Bacon.
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Increaser (?), n. One who, or that, increases.
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increasing adj. 1. becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices. [Narrower terms: accretionary ; augmenting, augmentative, building ; expanding ; flared, flaring ; growing ; incorporative ; lengthening ; maximizing ; multiplicative ; profit-maximizing ; raising ; accretive ; rising ] decreasing
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2. same as , 1. [prenominal]
Syn. -- growing(prenominal), incremental.
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3. (Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of decreasing. [Narrower terms: accelerando ; crescendo ]
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Increasingly, adv. More and more.
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Increate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Increated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Increating.] [Pref. in- in + create.] To create within. [R.]

{ Increate (?), Increated (?), } a. [L. increatus. See not, and .] Uncreated; self-existent. [R.]
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Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Milton.
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Incredibility (?), n. [L. incredibilitas: cf. F. incrédibilité.]
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1. The quality or state of being incredible; incredibleness. Dryden.
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2. That which is incredible. Johnson.
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Incredible (?), a. [L. incredibilis: cf. OF. incredible. See not, and .] Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous.
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Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? Acts xxvi. 8.
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Incredibleness, n. Incredibility.
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Incredibly, adv. In an incredible manner.
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Incredited (?), a. Uncredited. [Obs.]
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Incredulity (?), n. [L. incredulitas: cf. F. incrédulité.] The state or quality of being incredulous; a withholding or refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief; disbelief.
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Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is the most irrational. Buckminster.
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Incredulous (?; 135), a. [L. incredulus. See not, and .]
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1. Not credulous; indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true, skeptical; unbelieving. Bacon.
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A fantastical incredulous fool. Bp. Wilkins.
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2. Indicating, or caused by, disbelief or incredulity. “An incredulous smile.” Longfellow.
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3. Incredible; not easy to be believed. [R.] Shak.
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Incredulously, adv. In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.
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Incredulousness, n. Incredulity.
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Incremable (?), a. [Pref. in- not + L. cremabilis combustible, fr. cremare to burn.] Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe. Sir T. Browne.
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Incremate (?), v. t. [Pref. in- in + cremate.] To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate.
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Incremation (?), n. Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation.
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Increment (?), n. [L. incrementum: cf. F. incrément. See .]
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1. The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement.
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The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward.
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A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge.
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2. Matter added; increase; produce; production; -- opposed to decrement. “Large increment.” J. Philips.
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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.
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4. (Rhet.) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage:
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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.
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Coloq. Infinitesimal increment (Math.), an infinitesimally small variation considered in Differential Calculus. See . -- Coloq. 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.
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Incremental (?), a. (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.
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Increpate (?), v. t. [L. increpatus, p. p. of increpare to upbraid; pref. in- in, against + crepare to talk noisily.] To chide; to rebuke; to reprove. [Obs.]
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Increpation (?), n. [L. increpatio.] A chiding; rebuke; reproof. [Obs.] Hammond.
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Increscent (?), a. [L. increscens, -entis, p. pr. of increscere. See .]
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1. Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging.
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Between the incresent and decrescent moon. Tennyson.
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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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Increst (?), v. t. To adorn with a crest. [R.] Drummond.
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Incriminate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incriminated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Incriminating.] [LL. incriminatus, p. p. of incriminare; in- in + criminare, criminari, to accuse one of a crime. See .] To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.
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incriminating adj. charging or suggestive of guilt or blame; as, incriminating testimony; incriminating evidence.
Syn. -- criminative, criminatory, incriminatory.
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Incrimination (?), n. The act of incriminating; crimination.
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Incriminatory (?), a. Of or pertaining to crimination; tending to incriminate; criminatory.
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Incroyable (?), n. [F., lit., incredible.] A French fop or dandy of the time of the Directory; hence, any fop.

☞ The name is said to have been given in allusion not only to the extravagant dress, but also to the frequent use of the phrase “C'est vraiment incroyable” (That is really incredible.).
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Incruental (?), a. [L. incruentus. See not, and .] Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice. [Obs.] Brevint.
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Incrust (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incrusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Incrusting.] [L. incrustare; pref. in- in + crustare to cover with a crust: cf. F. incruster. See .] [Written also encrust.]
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1. To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar.
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And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow,
Incrusted hard. Thomson.
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2. (Fine Arts) To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.
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Incrustate (?), a. [L. incrustatus, p. p. See .] Incrusted. Bacon.
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Incrustate (?), v. t. To incrust. [R.] Cheyne.
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Incrustation (?), n. [L. incrustatio: cf. F. incrustation. See .]
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1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
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2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
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3. (Arch.) A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
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4. (Fine Arts) Anything inlaid or imbedded.
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Incrustment (?), n. Incrustation. [R.]
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Incrystallizable (?), a. Not crystallizable; incapable of being formed into crystals.
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Incubate (?), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Incubated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Incubating (?).] [L. incubatus, p. p. incubare to lie on; pref. in- in, on + cubare to lie down. Cf. , .] 1. To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
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2. To maintain (a living organism, such as microorganisms or a premature baby) under appropriate conditions, such as of temperature, humidity, or atmospheric composition, for growth; as, coliform bacteria grow best when incubated at 37° C..
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3. To develop gradually in some interior environment, until fully formed; as, the ideas for his book were incubating for two years before he began to write.
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Incubation (?), n. [L. incubatio: cf. F. incubation.]
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1. A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process. Ray.
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2. (Med.) The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
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3. A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams. Tylor.
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4. The maintenance (of a living organism, such as microorganisms or a premature baby) in appropriate conditions, such as of temperature, humidity, or atmospheric composition, for growth.
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5. The gradual development in some interior environment, until fully formed; as, the incubation time for developing a new drug may be longer than ten years from its first discovery.
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Coloq. Period of incubation , or Coloq. Stage of incubation (Med.), the period which elapses between exposure to the causes of an infectious disease and the attack resulting from it; the time during which an infective agent must grow in the body before producing overt symptoms of disease.
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Incubative (?), a. Of or pertaining to incubation, or to the period of incubation.
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Incubator (?), n. 1. That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat.
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2. An apparatus containing an enclosed chamber, used for the cultivation of microörganisms or tissue cultures by maintaining a suitable temperature and atmospheric composition. Some incubators have no provision for maintaining a special atmosphere, while in others, especially for anaerobic organisms and tissue culture, the moisture level and composition of the gases are also controlled.
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3. (Med.) An apparatus consisting of enclosed chamber, for maintaining prematurely born babies in a favorable environment until able to thrive under normal conditions. The temperature and level of oxygen in the atmosphere may be controlled.
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Incubatory (?), a. Serving for incubation.
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Incube (?), v. t. To fix firmly, as in cube; to secure or place firmly. [Obs.] Milton.
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Incubiture (?; 135), n. [Cf. L. incubitus.] Incubation. [Obs.] J. Ellis.
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Incubous (?), a. [From L. incubare to lie on.] (Bot.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See .
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Incubus (?), n.; pl. E. Incubuses (#), L. Incubi (#). [L., the nightmare. Cf. .]
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1. A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have sexual intercourse with women by night. Tylor.
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The devils who appeared in the female form were generally called succubi; those who appeared like men incubi, though this distinction was not always preserved. Lecky.
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2. (Med.) The nightmare. See .
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Such as are troubled with incubus, or witch-ridden, as we call it. Burton.
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3. Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.
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Debt and usury is the incubus which weighs most heavily on the agricultural resources of Turkey. J. L. Farley.
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Inculcate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inculcated; p. pr. & vb. n. Inculcating (?).] [L. inculcatus, p. p. of inculcare to tread on; pref. in- in, on + calcare to tread, fr. calx the heel; perh. akin to E. heel. Cf. 2d , .] To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility.
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The most obvious and necessary duties of life they have not yet had authority enough to enforce and inculcate upon men's minds. S. Clarke.

Syn. -- To instill; infuse; implant; engraft; impress.
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Inculcation (?), n. [L. inculcatio: cf. F. inculcation.] A teaching and impressing by frequent repetitions. Bp. Hall.
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