'_ in the United States of America. 489 
‘native state, long before the period above alluded to. See Provincial 
Statutes, 4. William and Mary, A.D. 1692. and Massa, Colony Lawa, 
title, CATTLE, CoRN-FIELDS, FeNoEs ; p. 12. Edit. 1660. 
This use of the verb improve is also noticed by Dr. Witherspoon ; 
see his Druid, No. 7. 
IMPORTUNAEY. This has been called an American word. (See Monthly 
Anthol. 1806, p. 92.) It is not in Johnson, but it is in Bailey and Mason, 
the latter of whom cites Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona and 
Timon. The word, however, does not appear to be much used by English 
writers of the present day. 
INCIDENT TO; liable to. “Such bodies are incident to these evils. The 
- . evil is incident or ready to fall upon the person; the person liable or subject 
to the evil.” Withers. Druid, No. 5. I have never known the word 
_. incident used in this manner in America. é 
INCIVISM; « unfriendliness to a state or government.” Webst. This modern 
word has never been heard in America since the first years of the Preach 
revolution. 
To INCULPATE ; INCULPATION ; to accuse ; accusation. These words 
_ are used by some American authors; but they are not in the English dic- 
_ tio aries, and _ are certainly not qmuch, if at all, used oY English writers. 
INDESIRABLE. © This word is c in the N ) Anthology, (1807, p. 
281 -) I have never met with it it In | Rpdaacae i except in the 
instance there cited. 
INEXECUTION. “ The extensive discussions which had taken place relative 
>)» to the inexecution of the treaty of peace,” &c. Marsh. Life of Washing. 
' vol. v. p. 474. I believe this has been sometimes used by English writers ; 
~but.they generally make use of the term non-execution, as J udge Marshall 
himself commonly does ; see pp. 184, 275, 370, 473, &c. of vol. v. 
INFECTED. The Annual Review has hastily criticised Judge Marshall for 
using this word in his Life of Washington in a peculiar sense. The 
remark of the reviewers is :—“ Vol..v. p. 144, [Eng: edit.] meaning to 
praise them, our author says, ‘ the patriotic veterans of the revolution, 
infected by the wide spreading contagion of the times, arrayed themselves 
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