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power of the cowpox, smallpox inocula- 

 tion gradually fell into disuse, and it is 

 now felony for any medical practitioner 

 to perform the operation. 2. In garden- 

 ing, see BUDDING. 



INOR'DIN ATE, Lat. inordinattts, irregular. 

 E.g. inordinate proportion is where there 

 are three magnitudes in one rank, and 

 three others proportional to them in ano- 

 ther, and they are compared in a different 

 order. Thus, suppose the numbers are 

 2, 3, 9. and 8, 24, 36, and they are com- 

 pared, 2 : 3 : : 24 : 36 ; and 3 : 9 : : 8 : 24 : 

 then, rejecting the mean terms, we have 

 2 : 9 : : 8 : 36. 



INORGAN'IC, not organic. Inorganic 

 bodies are such as have no organs of vita- 

 lity, as the various minerals, and the 

 chemical examination of these is called 

 inorganic chemistry. 



INOS'CULATION, from in and osculum, a 

 little mouth. Anastomosis, or the union 

 of the extremities of the vessels of organic 

 bodies. 



IN Pho'raiA. PERSO'NA (Latin). In one's 

 own person or character. 



IN'QUEST, from i/ and quecro, to seek. 

 Judicial inquiry. An inquest of office is 

 an inquiry made by the queen's officer, 

 his sheriff, coroner, or escheator, concern- 

 ing matters which entitle the Crown to 

 possession of lands, tenements. &c. It is 

 made by a jury of no determinate number. 



INQUI'RY. A writ of inquiry is one is- 

 sued to the sheriff, to summon a jury, to 

 inquire what damages are due to a plain- 

 tiff in an action upon a case, where judg- 

 ment goes by default. 



INQCISI'TION, from inquiro. 1. An offi- 

 cial examination ; an inquest. 2. A 



court established in some Catholic coun- 

 tries, for the examination and punishment 

 of heretics. This court was established 

 in the twelfth century, by Father Domi- 

 nic, who was charged by Pope Innocent 

 III. with orders to incite the Catholic 

 princes and people to extirpate heretics. 



INROL'MENT, (In law, the registering, 



INROLL'MENT. j recording, or entering 

 'ipon the rolls of Chancery, Queen's 

 Hench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, or 

 by the Clerk of the Peace in the Records 

 of the Quarter Sessions, any lawful act, 

 as a deed of bargain and sale of lands, &c. 



INSAN'ITY, Lat. insanitas, from in and 

 sauna, sound ; derangement of intellect. 

 The word is applicable to any degree of 

 mental derangement, from slight deli- 

 rium, to distraction, or madness; it is, 

 however, rarely used to express the tem- 

 porary delirium occasioned by fever or 

 accident. 



INSCRI'BK, from inscribo. 1. To draw a 

 figure within another, so that all the an- 

 gles of the figure inscribed track the 

 angles, sides, or planes of the circum- 

 tcribing figure. 2. An inscribed hyperbola 



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is ono which lies wholly within the an- 

 gles of its asymptotes, as does the common 

 or conical hyperbola. 



IN'SECT, Lat. insecta,from in and seco.to 

 cut. A class of articulated animals with, 

 articulated legs, breathing by lateral tra- 

 chea? extending parallel to each other, 

 throughout the whole length of the body, 

 and furnished with, two antennae and a 

 distinct head. The name seems first to 

 have been given to bees, and analogous 

 insects, whose bodies appear as if almost 

 divided or insected ; but Linna?us ex tended 

 the name to crustaceans and arachnides. 

 Cuvier distributes the insects into twelve 

 orders. (1.) Myriopoda. (2.) Thysanoura. 

 (3.) Parasita. (4.) Suctoria. (5.) Coleop- 

 tera. (6.) Orthoptera. (7.) Hemiptera. 

 (8.) Neuroptera. (9.) Hymenoptera. (10.) 

 Lepidoptera. (11.) Khipiptera. (12.) 

 Diptera. Most insects pass through three 

 stages of metamorphoses ; the larva, the 

 chrysalis, and perfect insect. See ENTO- 

 MOLOGY. 



INSECTIV'ORA, a family of carnarian 

 mammalia. They lead a nocturnal or 

 subterraneous life, and live chiefly on in- 

 sects : whence the name from insect and 

 two, to eat. The hedgehog, teneric, 

 shrew, desman, and mole, are examples. 

 Epithet insectivorous. 



INSER'TED COLUMN. In architecture, a 

 column standing, or apparently standing, 

 partly in a wall. 



INSIST', from insisto, to stand on. In 

 geometry, an angle is said to insist upon 

 the arc of the circle intercepted between 

 the two lines which contain the ang-e. 



IN SITU (Lat.), remaining in the original 

 position. 



INSOLA'TION, from in and sol, the sun ; 

 exposing to the action of the SUIT'S rays. 

 Chemical action is often promoted by in- 

 solation. 



INSOL'VENT LAW, or act of insolvency, a 

 law which liberates a debtor from impri- 

 sonment, or exempts him from liability to 

 arrest and imprisonment on account of 

 any debt previously contracted. These 

 terms may be regarded as generic, com- 

 prehending all bankrupt laws which pro- 

 tect a man's future acquisitions from his 

 creditors ; but in a limited sense, as the 

 words are now generally used, an insol- 

 vent law extends only to protect the 

 person of the debtor from imprisonment, 

 on account of debts previously contracted. 



INSTALL A'TION, from Ital. installare, to 

 place. The putting in possession of an 

 office, rank, or order, with the customary 

 ceremonies. To install a clergyman, is to 

 place over a particular church one who 

 has been already ordained. 



INSTALMENT. In commerce, a part of a 

 sum of money to be paid at a particular 

 time. In constituting a capital stock by 

 subscriptions of individual?, it is cuswim- 



