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ary to afford facilities to subscribers by 

 dividing the sum subscribed into instal- 

 ments, or portions, payable at distinct 

 periods. In large contracts also, it is usual 

 to agree that the money shall be paid by 

 instalments, and a bankrupt who has ob- 

 tained a settlement with his creditors, 

 pays his composition by instalments. 



IX'STANCE CUUUT, a branch of the Court 

 of Admiralty. 



INSTANT, contracted inst., is used in cor- 

 respondence, &c., for the current month. 

 The distinction between inst. and curt, is 

 this: inst. denotes that the day of the 

 month named is past, and curt, that it is 

 not yet arrived : e. g. 1 received your let- 

 ti;r of the 3rd inst., and shall transmit the 

 draft on the 12th curt. 



IxiTAs'TER, a Latin word for instantly. 

 A. term in law for signifying that some- 

 thing is to be done at the present time or 

 without delay. 



In STA'TU Quo (Lat.), in the state in 

 which it was. 



INSTAURA'TA TER'RA (Lat.), land ready 

 stocked. 



INSTAC'RUM ECCLE'SI^ (Lat.), utensils 

 of a church. 



Is'sTiTCTE,Lat.iis<i<frfMm. 1. A maxim, 

 precept, principle, or established law. In 

 this sense the term is used in the plural, 

 as the title of a book containing the ele- 

 ments or principles of the Roman law. - 

 2. In Scots law, when a number of persons 

 in succession hold an estate in tail, the 

 first is called the institute, and the others 

 substitutes. - 3. Societies established ac- 

 cording to certain laws or regulations for 

 the furtherance of some particular object, 

 such as colleges, or seminaries for the 

 cultivation of the sciences, are termed 

 institutes, sometimes institutions. Thus 

 we have Mechanics' Institutes, Literary 

 Institutes, &c. 



IX'SUL.VTE, from insitla, an isle. 1. To 

 free from all combination. Some acids, 

 as the fulminic, have not been insulated. 

 - 2. To detach from connexion with sur- 

 rounding objects. A column which stands 

 alone, and a body which is surrounded by 

 non-conductors of electricity, are said to 

 be insulated. 



IXSCLA'TION, a term applied chiefly in 

 electrical experiments to denote the state 

 of a body surrounded by non-conductors. 

 The common insulators are glass, lac, silk, 



INSU'RAJJCE, or ASSU'RANCE, a contract 

 by which one or more persons called iw- 

 snrers or assurers, tor a. stivu\nlc<l premium, 

 engage to make good any loss which an- 

 other may sustain by fire, shipwreck, or 

 other cause, specified in the policy of in- 

 surance. "When the insurance is made 

 against risk at sea, it is distinguished by 

 the name of Marine Insurance, and the 

 insurer is called an underwriter. Policies 



for lives constitute another descrip.'cn ot 

 insurance, whereby a person, for a certain 

 annuity, insures to his heirs a certain &\ini 

 payable at his decease. Insurances of this 

 kind are often made for a specified num- 

 ber of years, and instead of an annual 

 premium, a single sum may be paid, de- 

 pending in amount upon the age of th>? 

 party upon whose life th insurance is 

 made. 



IxTAGi/io,Ital.fromtifci01iar,to carve ; 

 anything with figures in relief on it. An- 

 tique gems are frequently engraved in 

 intaglio, and are hence called intaglios. 



IN'TEGER (Lat.), the whole of anything. 

 In arithmetic, whole numbers are called 

 integers, in contradistinction to fractions. 



IX'TEGRAL CALCPLCS. See CALCCLUS. 



IN'TEGRANT, making part of an integer 

 or whole. The integrant particles of a 

 body are those into which it is reducible 

 by mechanical division or solution: dis- 

 tinct from elementary particles. 



INTEGUMENT, Lat. integiimentwn , that 

 'which covers, from intego, to cover. 

 Chiefly used in anatomy for any covering 

 which invests a body or particular part. 

 The skins of seeds are also termed intecu- 

 ments, as are also the coats of the eye, &c. 



IXTEXDANT, Fr. from Lat. intendo. One 

 who has charge or management of some. 

 public business. Intetidant has the saint'* 

 signification in France, that superinten- 

 dent has in England. 



or true meaning. In the application <' 

 statutes. e., the intendment of the same 

 is to be ascertained, i.e. the true inten- 

 tion of the legislator. 



INTER'CALARY, Lat. inter calarius, some- 

 thing inserted, from inter and calo, to call 

 or proclaim. The 29th day of February 

 in leap year is an intercalary day, and it 

 was common in adjusting the old calen- 

 dars to make intercalary lunations. These 

 intercalation*, were declared and ordered 

 by proclamation. 



IXTERCEP'TED AXES. In conic sections (tee 

 ABSCISSA). 



INTERCEL'LTTLAR PASSAGES. In botany, 

 the spaces between the cells, tubes, or 

 vessels, of which the tissue consists. 



IxTEHtor-rMxiA'Tiox, from inter and 

 column. The space between two columns, 

 measured from the place where they aro of 

 equal thickness. Vitru vius enumerates five 

 different properties of intercolumniation, 

 by the names of Pycnostyle, Systyle.L'io- 

 style, Araeostyle. and Eustyle. 



IXT'ERDICT, from inter and dirt, to 



speak. A prohibition forbidding the per- 



formance of some act, originally a sort, of 



ecclesiastical censure, by which the Pore 



forbade the performance of dirine ser- 



vice in a kingdom, province, town,&c. 



I England was placed under int*rdic* b? 



I Pope Alexander III. 



