illiteracy 
Mohham'mad gloried in his illiteracy, as a proof of his 
being inspired. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 229, note. 
The dense illiteracy in many parts of the United States, 
shown by the last census, is an argument in behalf of 
public education that uo statesman who loves humanity 
can with sound reason oppose. N. A. Sev., CXL. 310. 
2. An error in the use of letters ; a literal or a 
literary error. [Rare.] 
The many blunders and illiteracies of the first publishers 
of his [Shakspere's] works. Pope, Pref. to Shakespeare. 
illiteral (i-lit'e-ral), a. [< L. in- priv. + titera- 
lis, litteralis, literal: see literal.'] Not literal. 
Dawson. [Bare.] 
illiterate (i-lit'e-rat), a. and . [= P. ilkttre = 
Sp. iliterato = Pg. illiterate = It. illetterato, < L. 
illiteratus, inliteratus, more correctly illitteratus, 
inlitteratus, unlettered, uneducated, < in- priv. 
+ literatus, litteratus, lettered, educated: see 
literate.] I. a. 1. Ignorant of letters or books ; 
having little or no learning ; unlettered ; uncul- 
tivated: as, the illiterate part of the population; 
an illiterate tribe. In census statistics and education- 
al works illiterate is used in the specific sense of unable 
to read; but in common use it implies only a notable or 
boorish want of culture, a person unable to read being 
said to be totally illiterate. 
No more can ludgis Illitturate 
Discus ane mater (weill I wat). 
Lauder, Dewtie of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), L 453. 
The illiterate, that know not how 
To cipher what is writ in learned books. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 810. 
It is more than a mere epigram to affirm that unlettered 
races must of necessity be illiterate. 
Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 3. 
Intrepid, with muscles of steel, and finely formed, they 
are very illiterate. Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, p. 26. 
2. Showing illiteracy or want of culture; rude; 
barbarous. 
There are in many places heresy, and blasphemy, and 
impertinency, and illiterate rudenesses. 
Jet. Taylor, Extempore Prayer. 
Brown monks with long dangling hair, and faces kindly 
tut altogether illiterate, hang about in desultory groups. 
Scribner's Mag., IV. 275. 
= Syn. Unlettered, Unlearned, etc. See ignorant. 
H. n. An illiterate person; one unable to 
read or to write. 
In Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and some 
German states, there are hardly any illiterates. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVII. 640. 
These illiterates belong almost exclusively to the colored 
race. N. A. Rev., CXLII. 382. 
illiterately (i-lit'e-rat-li), adv. In an illiterate 
manner. 
To unread 'squires illiterately gay ; 
Among the learn'd, as learned full as they. 
Savage, To John Powell. 
illiterateness (i-lit'e-rat-nes), n. The state of 
being illiterate ; illiteracy. 
What blindness pursues them, that they mark the 
things He made only with their museum-labels, and think 
they have exhausted its contribution when they have 
never even been within sight of it? This is not even athe- 
ism. It is simple illiterateness. 
Nineteenth Century, XIX. 213. 
illiterature (i-lit'e-ra-tur), . [< L. in- priv. 
+ literatura, litteratu'raj literature.] Want of 
learning; unlettered condition; illiteracy; ig- 
norance. [Rare.] 
The more usual causes of this deprivation are want of 
holy orders, illiterature, or inability for the discharge of 
that sacred function, and irreligion. Ayli/e, Parergon. 
The illiterature of the age approached to barbarism; 
the evidences of history were destroyed. 
/. D' Israeli, Amen, of Lit., I. 247. 
ill-judged (il'jujd'), a. Done without judg- 
ment; injudicious; unwise. 
ill-laidt, a. Badly conceived or proposed; un- 
reasonable. 
'Tis such another strange ill-laid request 
As if a beggar should intreat a king 
To leave his sceptre and his throne to him. 
Beau, and Fl., King and No King, ii. 1. 
ill-lived (il'livd'), a. [< ill + life + -ecP.-] 
Leading a disreputable or wicked life. 
A scandalous and ill-lived teacher. Bp. Hall. 
ill-looked (il'lukf), a. Having an ill or bad 
look; homely; plain. Scott. 
ill-looking (il'luk'ing), a. Having a bad look 
or appearance ; ugly ; uncomely. 
ill-mannered (il'man'erd), a. Of bad manners; 
uncivil; impolite; rude; boorish. 
ill-natured (il'na'turd), a. 1. Having a bad na- 
ture or character. 
It is impossible that any besides an ill-natured man can 
wish against the Being of a God. 
Shaftesbury, Letter concerning Enthusiasm, 1 4, quoted 
[in Fowler, p. 118. 
Kich, foreign mould on their ill-natured land. 
J. Philips, Cider, i. 
2988 
2. Having a bad temper; churlish; crabbed; 
surly; spiteful: as, an ill-natured person. 
It might be one of those ill-natured beings who are at 
enmity with mankind, and do therefore take pleasure in 
filling them with groundless terrors. Atterbury. 
3. Indicating ill nature. 
The ill-natured task refuse. Addison, tr. of Ovid. 
4. Of uncertain temper; petulant; peevish; in- 
tractable. [Scotch.] 
He has a very kind heart; but 0! it's hard to live wi 
him, he's sae ill-natured. Jamieson. 
ill-naturedly (il'na'turd-li), adv. In an ill- 
natured manner ; spitefully ; surlily, 
ill-naturedness (il'na'turd-nes), . The qual- 
ity of being ill-natured; crabbedness; spite- 
fulness. 
illness (il'nes), n. [< ME. ilnesse, ylnesse; < ill 
+ -ness.] If. Evilness; badness; wickedness; 
iniquity ; moral perversion. 
I haue lefte to hir the gardeins of Vulcan, whiche I 
caused to make for her recreation. And if thou take it 
from hir, thou shewest thyne ylnesse. Golden Book, xlvii. 
The best examples haue neuer such forse to moue to any 
goodnes as the bad, vaine, light, and fond haue to all Him. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 68. 
2f. A bad or unfavorable stateorcondition; un- 
favorableness. 
He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison-doors 
set open, is perfectly at liberty, though his preference be 
determined to stay, by the illness of the weather. Locke. 
3. An attack of sickness; ailment; malady; 
disease : as, he has recovered from his illness. 
This is the first letter that I have ventured upon, which 
will be written, I fear, vacillantibus literis ; as Tully says, 
Tyro's letters were after his recovery from an illness. 
Atterbury. 
= Syn. 3. Illness, Sickness, Ailment, complaint, disorder. 
Sick and sickness have been considered until within the 
present century essentially synonymous with ill and ill. 
ness. Of late, English usage has tended to restrict sick 
and sickness to nausea, and American usage has follow- 
ed it so far as to regard illness as a rather more elegant 
and less definite term : beyond that it does not seem like- 
ly to go. An ailment is generally of small account, com- 
paratively, and local: as, his ailment was only a headache. 
None of these words represent ordinarily so serious an at- 
tack as disease, but illness and sickness may do so. See 
disease and debility. 
illocable (i-16'ka-bl), a. [= Pg. illocavel, < L. 
illocabilis, inlocabilis, lit. that cannot be placed, 
< in- priv. + locabilis, < locare, place : see locate.} 
In law, incapable of being placed out or hired. 
illocal (i-16'kal), a. [< ML. illocalis, without 
place, <.in--pn\.+ localis, local.] Without place; 
not in any definite portion of space. 
This is in itself very absurd, to suppose . . , finite and 
particular beings to be thus illocal and immoveable, no- 
where and every where. 
Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 783. 
Nor is the presence of Christ in the bread and wine (il- 
local, uncircumscribed) based upon the fact that the body 
of Christ is glorified. B&liotheca Sacra, XLV. 686. 
illocality (il-o-kal'i-ti), n. [< illocal + -ity.] 
Want of locality or place ; the state of not exist- 
ing in a locality or place. 
An assertion of the inextension and illocality of the soul 
was long and very generally eschewed. Sir W. Hamilton. 
ill-off (il'df '), a. Badly provided for; not in 
comfortable circumstances : opposed to well-off. 
Doubtless it is true that the greater part of the money 
exacted comes from those who are relatively well-off. But 
this is no consolation to the ill-off from whom the rest is 
exacted. H. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 73. 
illogical (i-loj'i-kal), a. [< jii-3 + logical. Cf. 
F. illogique.] 1." Ignorant or negligent of the 
rules of logic or sound reasoning: as, an illogi- 
cal disputant. 
Even the most illogical of modern writers would stand 
perfectly aghast at the puerile fallacies which seem to have 
deluded some of the greatest men of antiquity. 
Macaulay, Athenian Orators. 
2. Contrary to the rules of logic or sound rea- 
soning: as, an illogical inference. 
What is there among the actions of beasts so illogical 
and repugnant to reason? Cowley, Shortness of Life. 
This distinction of precepts and counsels is illogical and 
ridiculous, one member of the distinction grasping within 
itself the other. South, Works, VIII. vi. 
=Syn. 2. Inconclusive, inconsequent, unsound, fallacious, 
sophistical. 
illogicality (i-loj-i-kal'i-ti), n. [< illogical + 
-ity. ] 1 . Illogicalness ;" want of logic or sound 
reasoning. 
It accuses the subtle Berkeley ... of illogicality. 
Huxley, Lay Sermons, p. 329. 
2. That which is illogical ; a case of illogical- 
ness. 
Even Irish extraction would scarcely suffice to account 
for the illogicality. 11. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., 406. 
illogically (i-loj'i-kal-i), adv. In an illogical 
manner. 
illude 

illogicalness (i-loj'i-kal-nes), n. The quality 
of being illogical ; opposition to sound reason- 
ing. 
There are divers texts of the Old Testament applied to 
Christ in the New, which, though they did not now inevi- 
tably conclude against the present Jews, were without any 
illoi/icalness employed against their ancestors. 
Boyle, Works, IL 274. 
ill-omened (il'o'mend), a. Having or attended 
by bad omens ; ill-starred. 
Remembering his ill-omen'd song, [she] arose 
Once more thro' all her height. 
Tennyson, Princess, vi. 
illoricate (i-lor'i-kat), a. [< Jw-3 4- loricate.] 
In rod'/., not loricate; having no lorica. 
Illosporiacei (il-o-spo-ri-a'se-I), n. pi. [NL. 
(Fries, 1846), < Illosporium + -acei.~] A division 
of gymnomyeetous fungi, of which the genus 
Illosporium is the type. It is referred by Sac- 
cardo to the Hyphomycetes, family Tuberculariece, 
Illosporium (il-o-spo'ri-um), n. [NL. (K. F. P. 
von Martins, 1817), < Gr. (dial.) i/Wof, the eye, -r- 
airopd, a spore.] A genus of fungi placed by 
Saccardo in the Hyphomycetes, family Tubercu- 
lariece, having the conidia globular and agglu- 
tinated by a gelatinous substance. They occur 
among mosses and lichens and on the trunks of 
trees. 
ill-partt, a. Ill-conditioned. Nares. 
King John, that Hi-part personage. 
Death ofR. Earle of Huntington (1601). 
ill-set (il'sef), a. 1. Set or disposed to evil; 
ill-natured; spiteful. [Scotch.] 
Auld luckie cries ; " Ye're o'er ill-set; 
As ye'd hae measure, ye sud met." 
The Farmer's Ha', st. 88. 
2. Having the type incorrectly set ; ill-printed. 
If lovers should mark everything a fault, 
Affection would be like an ill-set book, 
Whose faults might prove as big as half the volume. 
Middleton, Changeling, H. 1. 
ill-sorted (il'sdr'ted), a. 1. Ill-assorted; ill- 
arranged ; hence, ill-matched ; ill-paired : as, 
an ill-sorted couple. 2. Ill-suited; ill-satisfied. 
[Scotch.] 
Yell he Ul-sorted to hear that he's like to be in the pris- 
on at Portanf erry. Scott, Guy Mannering, xlv. 
ill-Starred (il'stard'), a. [< ill + star* + -ed"*. 
Cf. disastrous.'] Under the influence of an 
evil star; hence, fated to be unfortunate; 
ill-omened. [A word borrowed from astrol- 
ogy-] 
Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench I 
Shak., Othello, v. 2. 
Then from thy foolish Heart vain Maid, remove 
An useless Sorrow, and an ill-starr'd Love. 
Prior, Henry and Emma. 
ill-tempered (il'tem'perd), a. If. Distempered; 
disordered. 
Hath Cassius liv'd 
To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus, 
When grief, and blood ill-temper'd, vexeth him ? 
Shak., J. C., iv. 3. 
Put on a half shirt first this summer, it being very hot ; 
and yet BO ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall 
catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. 
Pepys, Diary, II. 139. 
2. Having a bad temper; morose; crabbed; 
petulant; surly; cross. 
When I spoke that I was ill-temper'd too. 
Shak., J. C., iv. 3. 
= Syu. 2. See ill-natured. 
illth (ilth), n. [< ill + -th; formed after the 
analogy of wealth.'] That which conduces to 
ill or evil. [Rare.] 
The squandering of a nation's labor in the production 
not of wealth but of illth results in the robbery of the wage- 
workers. Christian Union, Aug. 11, 1887. 
ill-time (il'tim'), v. t. [< ill + time, v.~\ To 
do or attempt at an unsuitable time; mistime. 
Wright. [Rare.] 
ill-timed(irtimd'),p. a. Not at a suitable time; 
unseasonable ; inopportune. 
Madness, we fancy, gave an ill-tim'd Birth 
To grinning Laughter, and to frantjc Mirth. 
Prior, Solomon, iii. 
He calls the speech as Hi-timed as it was rare. 
Froude, Ccesar, p. 522. 
ill-treat (il'tref), v. t. To treat unkindly or 
unjustly. 
ill-turned (il'ternd'), a. Badly fashioned or 
composed. 
He'd bid blot all, and to the anvil bring 
These ill-torned verses to new hammering. 
B. Jonson, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry, 
illude (i-lud'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. illuded, ppr. 
illuding. [< OF. Hinder = Pg. illudir = It. iilu- 
dere, < L. illudere, inludere, play with, sport or 
jest with, scoff at, mock, deceive, < in, in, on,+ 
ludere, play; cf. allude, collude, delude, elude.'} 
