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Nature inanimate employs sweet sounds, inapertOUS (in-a-per'tus), a. [< L. inapertus, 
But animated Nature sweeter still. no t open, < in-priv. + apertus, open : see apert.\ 
Cowper, Task, i. 197. In ^^ not open: applied to an unopened co- 
The stars and planets attract each other according ^o ro n a [Rare.] 
foantmate movements ; inanimate conversation. 
All the people in the date villages . . . had an inani- 
mate, dejected, grave countenance, and seemed rather to 
avoid than wish any conversation. 
Brme, Source of the Nile, I. 54. 
= Syn. Dead, lifeless, inert, soulless, spiritless. 
inanimated (in-an'i-ma-ted), p. a. Made inani- 
mate ; without life ; without animation ; life- 
less; spiritless. [Rare.] 
O fatal change ! become in one sad day 
A senseless corpse ! inanimated clay ! 
Pope., Iliad, xxii. 5C1. 
Everything that comes from them is flat, inanimated, 
and languid. Goldsmith, Sequel to A Poetical Scale. 
inanimateness (in-an'i-mat-nes), n. The state 
of being inanimate ; want of spirit ; dullness. 
Albeit the mover had been more excellent, might not 
the motion have been accounted less perfect, by reason of 
the deadness and inanimnteness of the subject mov'd? 
W. Montague, Devoute Essays, I. ii. 3. 
The man that will but lay his eares 
As inapoitate to the thing he heares, 
Shall be [by ] his hearing quickly come to see 
The truth of travails lesse in bookes then thee. 
Herriclc, Hesperides, p. 354. 
Glory was the cheap but inappreciable meed bestowed 
by the economical sovereign. 
/. I) Israeli, Amen, of Lit, II. 1S5. 
inappreciation (in-a-pre-shi-a'shon), . [< in- 3 
+ appreciation.] Want of appreciation, 
inappreciative (in-a-pre'shi-a-tiv), a. [< in- 3 
+ appreciative.] Not appreciative ; not valu- 
ing or justly esteeming. 
We are thankful for a commentator at last who passes 
dry-shod over the turbide onde of inappi-eeiaH iv criticism. 
Lowell, Among my hooks, 2d ser., p. 47. 
1 
inappeasable 
eOn-a-pe'^Iir^'; ap- %$^ ETJffiSS^ D 
I T tiai-in^a la n la n^<^. v v j - ^ .,.,'. 
2 prehensible, < 
"iaisableTll'i,^ +' appeasable.] Not to be ap- Sensible: see 
peased. 
inappellability (in-a-pel-a-bil'i-ti), n. [< in- 
appe/lable : see -biKty.] 1. Incapability of being 
appealed from: as,' "the inappellabiHty of the 
councils," Coleridge. 2. The condition of be- 
ing without appeal, 
inappellable (in-a-pel'a-bl), a. [= Sp. imtpe- inapprehension (in-ap-re-hen.'shpn), n. [< tn- 
table = It. inappellabile ; as i- 3 + appellabte.] + apprehension.] Want of apprehension. Bp. 
Not to be appealed from ; not admitting of ap- ff ur( [. 
peal: as, " inappellable authority," C'oleridgc. Th 
inujiprensitnte, <. LiLi. uuipprciienxwuis, not ap- 
- F ina- prehensible, < in- priv. + apprchensibilis, appre- 
hensible: see apprehensible.] Not apprehensi- 
ble or intelligible. 
Those celestial! songs to others inapprehensible, but not 
to those who were not defll'd with women. 
Milton, Apology for Smectymmms. 
For here is a predicate which he sufficiently apprehends, 
what is inapprehensible in the proposition being confined 
to the subject. J. H. Newman, Gram, of Assent, p. 13. 
-3 
sion of life or spirit; vivifying influence. 
Habitual joy in the Holy Ghost, arising from the inani- 
mation of Christ living and breathing within us. 
Bp. Hall, Christ Mystical. 
inanimation 2 (in-an-i-ma'shon), n. 
animation.] Inanimateness. [Rare _ 
inanitiate (in-a-nish ' i-at), a. [Irreg. < ina- 
niti(on) + -ate 1 .] Affected with inanition ; ex- 
hausted by lack of nourishment. 
inanitiate (in-a-nish'i-at), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
valve mollusks whose external branchise are 
The young men . . . discussed the politics of the prov- 
ince and scrutinized the behavior of their English rulers 
with more or less inapprekenrion. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 593. 
destftuteof "posterior extensions or appendages, inapprehensive (in-ap-re-heu'siv), a. [<'-' 
' without 
Some (for example, Astrea, Area) are tetra- 
branchiate and others (Lticina) dibranchiate. 
r< j,j-3 + inappendiculate (in-ap-en-dik'u-lat), a. [< L. 
.] in- priv. + appendietua, dim. of appendix, an 
appendage: see appendage, appendix.] 1. In 
0067., unprovided with appendages, as the bran- 
chise of certain bivalve or lamellibranchiate 
mollusks of the group Inappendiculata. 2rln 
+ 'apprehensive.] Not apprehensive; 
apprehension ; without suspicion or fear. 
Neither are they hungry for God, nor satisfied with the 
world ; but remain stupid and inapprehensive, without 
resolution and determination. 
Jer. t'aylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 6S. 
For when were they ever more secure and inapprehen- 
rim of their danger than at this time? 
StiUingfleet, Sermons, I. i. 
inanitiated, ppr. inanitiating. [Irreg. < indni- bot., not appendaged, as the anthers in some^of inapproachable (in-a-prd'cha-bl), a. [< in- 3 + 
ti(on) + -ate?.] To affect with inanition; 
haust by lack of nourishment 
inanitiation (in-a-nish-i-f ' 
tiate + -ion.] The state 
or exhausted from lack of nourishment 
called inanition. 
inanition (in-a-nish 'on), n. [< F. inanition = Pr. 
inanicio = Sp. inamcion = Pg. i 
inanitio(n-), emptiness,< L. inanire, pp. inanitns, 
make empty, < inanis, empty: see inan ~" 
condition or consequence of being 
of appetence ; failure of appetite. 
Some squeamish and disrelished person takes a long 
walk to the physician's lodging to beg some remedy for 
his inappetence. Boyle, Works, VI. 23. 
'g. inanifSo, < LL. 
.inanitus, * * > 
make empty, < inanis, empty: see inane.] The 2. Lack of desire or inclination. See appetence, inappropriately (in-a-pro'pri-at-li), 
- inane or inappetency (m-ap'e-ten-si), n. Same as TO- B pSp,Sately or suitably. 
: of nour- appetence. inannrnnriatBTiessrin-a-tiro'Dri-at-n 
not proper; unsuitable: as, inappropriate re- 
marks. 
It may be aggravated by inappropriate remedies. 
P. M. Latham, Lects. on Clinical Medicine. 
adv. Not 
empty; hence, exhaustion from lack of nour- 
ishment, either physical or mental ; starvation 
due to deficiency or mal-assimilation of food. the stomach, and as an 
And as he must not eat overmuch, so he may not abso- . ' ,.... ,. v.-i- f 
lutely fast; for, as Celsus contends, repletion and inani- inapplicability (in-ap ll-Ka-Dll 1-tl 
ippetence. mapprOpriateness(in-a-pr6'pri-at-nes),n. Un- 
Ignorance may be said to ^work as^an inappetency^ ta suitableness; unfitness. 
napt (in-apt'), a. [=F.inapte=lt.iJiatto;a,R 
)'n-S -f apt. Cf. inept.] 1. Not apt in kind or 
character; ill adapted to the purpose or oeca- 
L * 
IHU!_\ twnt i lui , wo V-GIOUD uvuvoiHW) twjwi '- AiiMn* *** . ^ \ f ., _ r* mi -I UllHiillUliCi j 111 oilAayLCW. ij*-/ uijv friuvwwv 
tion may both doe harme in two contrary extreames. inapplicabilite; as inapplicable + -ity.] 1 he qual- . unsu jtable not fit or qualified : as, a per- 
JlUrtOll. Aliat. Of Mel., P. 235. ! ~f 1;,, ^TiaTvrilina'hlo nnailitfl.VllpTlPS. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 235. ^ o f ^ e i n g inapplicable ; unsuitableness. 
You have said rather less upon the inapplicability of 
I was now nearly sick from inanition, having taken so 
little the day before. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, v. 
inanity (in-an'i-ti), n.; pi. inanities (-tiz). [< 
F. inanite = It.'iwaniid, < L. inanita(t-)s, empti- 
ness, empty space, < inanis, empty: see inane.] 
1 . The state of being inane, (at) Emptiness ; va- 
cuity. 
This opinion excludes all such inanity, and admits no inapplicable (in-ap'li-ka-bl), a. [= 
your own old principles to the circumstances that are 
likely to influencfi your conduct against these principles, 
than of the general maxims of state. 
Burke, To Sir H. Langrishe. 
The inapplicability of this method has already been ex- 
plained. J. S. Mill, Logic, v. 8. 
inap- 
son inapt for a particular service. 
In intelligence the bronco has no equal, unless it is the 
mule though this comparison is inapt, as that hybrid 
has an extra endowment of brains, as though in compensa- 
tion for the beauty which he lacks. 
The Century, XXXVII. 342. 
2. Not apt in action or manner; not ready or 
skilful; dull; slow; awkward; unhandy: as, an 
inapt student or workman. Also unapt. See 
TniB opinion excludes ail BUUll inuniiy, uiiu nuiuiuj uu mt.in*j.i~ww*w v r jT --ft -- L j. iimjjv 
vacuities, but so little ones as no body whatever can come plicable = Sp. inaplicable = Pg. inapphcavel ; went. 
to but will be bigger than they, and must touch the cor- ag j n .3 + applicable.] Not applicable; inca- inaptitude (in-ap'ti-tud), n. [= F. inaptitude 
poral parts which those vacuities divide. TO t i _, __f -,-,,,,0.. t V,Q oTvr>liorl -nnt *nK ._ *A.. j i-c T>_ 1 *;-ja-,\ Tf ; nn ti;t,_ 
poral parts which those vacuities divide. 
Sir K. IHgby, Nature of Bodies. 
(6) Mental vacuity ; senselessness ; silliness ; frivolity. 
But nothing still from nothing would proceed : 
Raise or depress, or magnify or blame, 
Inanity will ever be the same. 
C. Smart, The Hilliad. 
To flow along through a whole wilderness of inanity, 
without particularly arousing the reader's disgust. _ rf , fr --^-- 
l>e Quincey, Rhetoric, p. 227. inapplicablenesS (in-ap'li-ka-bl-nes), n. The 
(c) Hollowness ; worthlessness. state of being inapplicable or unsuitable. 
He prevented the vain and presumptuous Russian from inapplicably (in-ap'li-ka-bli), adv. In an inap- 
seeing the minuteness and inanitti of the things he was plicable manner. 
gaining by his violent attempt at diplomacy. Kinglake. i na ppli ca tion (in-ap-li-ka'shon), n. [= F. in- 
2. An instance of frivolity or vanity: as, the application = Sp. inaplicacion = Pg. inapplica- armaments. 
If such an exhortation proved, perchance, 
Inapplicable, words bestowed in waste, 
What harm, uince law has store, can spend nor miss ? 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 158. 
=Syn. Unsuitable, inappropriate, inapposite, irrelevant. 
From diffidence, and perhaps from a certain degree of 
inaptitude for extemporary speaking, he took a less pub- 
lic part in the contests of ecclesiastical politics than some 
of his contemporaries. Blair, Dr. Hugh Blair. 
2. Lack of readiness; unskilfulness; awkward- 
ness; unhandiness: as, inaptitude in workman- 
ship. See ineptitude. 
The bursting of the 43-ton breech loading Woolwich 
gun on board the " Collingwood " is anothtr illustration of 
the iiiantitndc characteristic of the history of our national 
Brood Arrow, May 8, 1886. 
inanities of his conversatio'n. cSo; as in- 3 + application.] Lack" of applica- inaptly (in-apt'li), adr. In an inapt manner ; 
inantherate (in-an'ther-at), a. [< in- 3 + an- tion; negligence; indolence. Bailey, 1731. unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly. 
ther + -ate 1 .] In bot., bearing no anther: ap- inapposite (in-ap'o-zit), a. [< in- 3 + apposite.] inaptness (in-apt'nes), n. The quality of 
plied to sterile filaments or abortive stamens. Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not perti- ing inapt; inaptitude; unreadiness; awkward- 
in antis (in an'tis). [L. : in, in; antis, abl. of nent: as, an inapposite argument. 
anta, projecting ends of walls, etc.: see anta*.] T assured her gravelv I thought so too ; but forbore tell- 
a. i assured her gravely I thought so too ; but for 
In classical arch., between antse or pilasters: a ing her how totally inapposite her application w 
out Un. B. More, Cuele 
phrase noting porticoes or buildings without 
a peristyle, of which the side walls are pro- inappositely (in-ap'o-zit-li), adv. 
longed beyond the front, forming antee, which neiitly ; not suitably! 
*s, I. 236. 
Not perti- 
The poor man held dispute 
With his own mind, unable to subdue 
Impatience through tnaptnttl to perceive 
General distress in his particular lot. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, ii. 
We often hear persons who have a constitutional or ha- 
inapathy (in-ap'a-thi), n. [< in-3 + apathy.] Not appreciable; not to be valued of estimated; water: see tujxa.] Transformed into water; 
Feeling; sensibility. [Rare.] Imp. Diet. honue, of no consequence. embodied in water. [Rare.] 
