incombustible 
II. n. A substance or thing that will not 
burn, or cannot be consumed by fire, 
ineombnstibleness (in-kom-bus'ti-bl-nes), n. 
Incombustibility. 
incombustibly (in-kom-bus'ti-bli), adv. So as 
to resist combustion. 
income (in'kum), . [< ME. income = D. in- 
komen = Q. eiulcommen (in sense 6) = Icel. inn- 
Jcvdma, income ; cf . D. inkomst = Dan. iudkomst 
= Sw. iiiJcomst (in sense 6); as m- 1 + come."} If. 
A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction. 
Bot Kayous at the income was kepyd unfayre. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2171. 
At mine income I lowted low. 
Drant, tr. of Horace's Satires, i. 8. 
Pain pays the income of each precious thing. 
Skat., Lucrece, 1. 834. 
I would then make in and steep 
My income in their blood. Chapman. 
2. A new-comer or arrival ; an incomer. [Old 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
An Income, incola, aduena. 
Leoiiis, Manip. Vocab. (E. E. T. S.), p. 166. 
The new year comes ; then stir the tipple ; . . . 
Lut's try this income, how he stands, 
An' eik us sib by shakin' hands. Tarras, Poems, p. 14. 
3f. An entrance-fee. 
Though he [a farmer] pay neuer so great an annuall rent, 
yet must he pay at his entrance a fine, or (as they call it) 
an income of ten pound, twenty pound, . . . whereas in 
truth the purchase thereof is hardly worth so much. 
Stub/tea, Anat. of Abuses (1583), ii. 29. 
4. A coming in as by influx or inspiration; 
hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as 
courage or zeal ; an inflowing principle. [Ob- 
solete or archaic.] 
He ... that carries and imports into the understand- 
ing of his brother notices of faith, and incomes of spiritual 
propositions, and arguments of the Spirit, enables his bro- 
ther towards the work and practices of a holy life. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 751. 
Whose presence seemed the sweet income 
And womanly atmosphere of home. 
Whittier, Snow-Bound. 
5. A disease or ailment coming without known 
or apparent cause, as distinguished from one in- 
duced by accident or contagion. See ancome, 
oncome. [Scotch.] 
Her wheel . . . was nae langer of ony use to her, f or she 
had got an income in the right arm, and coudna spin. 
Gait, Sir Andrew Wylie, III. 191. 
If aister John, this is the mistress ; she's got a trouble in 
her breast some kind o' an income, we're thinkin'. 
Dr. John Brown, Kab and his Friends. 
6. That which comes in to a person as payment 
for labor or services rendered in some office, 
or as gain from lands, business, the investment 
of capital, etc. ; receipts or emoluments regular- 
ly accruing, either in a given time, or, when un- 
qualified, annually; the annual receipts of a 
person or a corporation; revenue : as, an income 
of five thousand dollars; his income has been 
much reduced; the income from the business is 
small. 
Whose heirs, their honors none, their income small, 
Must shine by true descent, or not at all. 
Camper, Tirocinium, 1. 350. 
Income bonds. See bondi. Income tax, a tax levied 
in some countries and states on incomes above a specified 
limit. From 1881 to 1872 an income tax was levied by the 
United States government. As arranged in 1862, incomes 
under $5,000 were taxed 5 per cent (with exemption of 
$600 and paid house-rentX incomes of over 85,000 and not 
over $10,000 were taxed 7J per cent., and those over $10,000 
were taxed 10 per cent, without exemption. There were 
various modifications; the exemption limit was raised in 
1865 to 31,000, and in 1870 to 82,000. In Great Britain and 
Ireland the tax is assessed at a rate per pound fixed from 
time to time by Parliament. Since 1877 there is an abate- 
ment of 120 on incomes under 400, while incomes un- 
der 150 are not charged. =Syn. Income, Revenue, Value, 
Pro/It. Revenue is the income of a government or state, 
without reference to expenditures; profit is the gain made 
upon any business or investment when both the receipts 
and the expenditures are taken into account Property 
may have value and yield neither income nor profit. 
incomer (in'kuin"er), . 1. One who comes in; 
a new-comer; an immigrant. 
This body was continually reinforced by fresh incomers 
from the north. J. S. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 372. 
2. One who comes in place of another ; a suc- 
cessor: used of tenants, occupants, office-hold- 
ers, etc., and opposed to outgoer. 3. One resi- 
dent in a place, but not a native; one who 
enters a company, society, or community. 
[Scotch.] 
There was Mr. Hamilton and the honest party with him, 
and Mr. Welsh with the new incomers, with others who 
came in afterwards. Howie, Battle of Bothwell-Bridge. 
4. In shooting, a bird which flies toward the 
sportsman. 
incoming (in'kum'ing), n. [< iw-1 + coming, 
verbal n. of come, v.~\ 1. The act of coming in, 
entering, or arriving. 
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He, at his first incommiwj, charg'd his spere 
At him that test appeared in his sight. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. iv. 40. 
2. That which comes in ; income ; gain ; source 
of revenue. 
Many incomings are subject to great fluctuations. Tooke. 
incoming (in'kum'iug), a. [< in- 1 + comintj, 
ppr. of come, t>.] 1. Coming in as an occupant, 
office-holder, or the like : as, an incoming ten- 
ant; the incoming administration. 2. Coming 
in as the produce of labor, property, or busi- 
ness; accruing. 
It is ... the first and fundamental interest of the la- 
bourer that the fanner should have a full incoming profit 
on the product of his labour. Burke, On Scarcity. 
3. Ensuing: as, the incoming week. [Scotch.] 
incomityt (in-kom'i-ti), n. [< in- 3 + comity."] 
Lack of comity; incivility. Coles, 1717. 
in commendam. See commendam. 
incommensuTability(in-ko-men'*su-ra-bil'i-ti), 
n. [==F.iiicommensurabilite = Sp.mconmensura- 
bilidad = Pg. incommensurabilidade = It. incom- 
mensurabilHa, < incommensurable: see -bility,~] 
The property of being incommensurable. 
Aristotle mentions the incommensurability of the diag- 
onal of a square to its side, and gives a hint of the manner 
in which it was demonstrated. 
Reid, Intellectual Powers, vi 7. 
incommensurable (in-ko-men'su-ra-bl), a. and 
n. [= P. incommensurable = ~&f."inconmensu- 
rable = Pg. incommensuravel = It. incommensu- 
rabile; as i- 3 + commensurable."} I. a. Not 
commensurable j having no common measure: 
thus, two quantities are incommensurable when 
no third quantity can be found that is an ali- 
quot part of both ; in arith., having no common 
divisor except unity. See commensurable. 
All primes together are generally called (by arithmeti- 
cians) numbers incommensurable, which is as much as to 
say, as numbers not able to be measured together by any 
one number; for although all true numbers universally 
are measurable together by an unit* yet sith unitie caus- 
eth no alteration, neyther by division nor yet by multipli- 
cation, but the numbers measured or multiplied by it al- 
wayes returne immutably the selfe same both for quotient 
and product that they themselves were before, therefore 
they are named numbers incommensurable. 
T. Hill, Arithmetick (1600), xi. 
Incommensurable In power, having incommensurable 
squares. Euclid, x., del. 2. 
II. n. One of two or more quantities which 
have no common measure. 
incommensurableness (in-ko-men' gu-ra-bl- 
nes), . Incommensurability. 
incommensurably (in-ko-men'su-ra-bli), adv. 
In an incommensurable manner. 
incommensurate (in-ko-men'su-rat), a. [< 
in- 3 + commensurate."] 1. Not commensurate ; 
not admitting of a common measure. 2. Not 
of equal measure or extent ; not adequate : as, 
means incommensurate to our wants. 
incommensurately (in-ko-men'gu-rat-li), adv. 
Not in equal or due measure or proportion. 
incommensur at eness ( in-ko-men ' gu-rat-nes) , 
n. The state of being incommensurate. 
incommiscible (in-ko-mis'i-bl), a. [= It. in- 
commiscibile, < LL. incommiseibilis, that may not 
be mixed, < L. in- priv. + LL. commiscibilis, 
that may bo mixed, < L. commiscere, mix: see 
commix.} Incapable of being commixed or com- 
mingled; that cannot be mixed or combined. 
Coles, 1717. 
incommixturet (in-ko-miks'tur), n. [< in-S + 
commixture.'] The state of being unmixed. 
In what parity and incommixture the language of that 
people stood, which were casually discovered in the heart 
of Spain, between the mountains of Castile, ... we have 
not met with a good account 
Sir T. Browne, Miscellanies, viii. 
incommodatet (in-kom'o-dat), v. t. [< L. incom- 
modatus, pp. of incommodare, inconvenience: 
see incommode. Cf. accommodate."] To incom- 
mode. 
The soul is ... incommodated with a troubled and 
abated instrument. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), II. 85. 
incommodatet, a. [< L. incommodatus, pp.: see 
the verb.] Uncomfortable. 
The scurvy and other diseases, which this long voyage 
and their incommodate condition had brought upon them. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 50. 
incommodation (in-kom-o-da'shon), n. [< in- 
commodate + -ion."] The act of incommoding, 
or the state of being incommodated or incom- 
moded. 
incommode (in-ko-mod'), v. t.; pret. and pp. in- 
commoded, ppr. incommoding. [< F. incommo- 
der = Sp. incomodar = Pg. incommodar = It. 
incomodare, < L. incommodare, inconvenience, < 
incommodiis, inconvenient: see incommode, a., 
and cf . commode.} To subject to inconvenience 
incommunicated 
or trouble; disturb or molest; worry; put out: 
as, visits of strangers at unseasonable hours 
incommode a family. 
I descended more conveniently, tho' not without being 
much incommoded by the sand which falls down from the 
top. Pococke, Description of the East, I. 53. 
'Tis scarce credible that the mind of so wise a man as 
my father was could be so much incommoded with so small 
a matter. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iv. 25. 
=Syn. To discommode, annoy, try. 
incommodet (iu-ko-mod'), a. and n. [= F. in- 
commode = Sp. incdmodo = Pg. incommode = It. 
incomodo, incommodo, < L. incommodus, incon- 
venient, < in- priv. T commodus, convenient: 
see commode."] I. a. Troublesome; inconve- 
nient. 
To be obliging to that Excess as you are ... is a dan- 
gerous Quality, and may be very incommode to you. 
Wycherley, Love in a Wood, Ded. 
II. . Something troublesome or inconve- 
nient. 
Praying you effectually to follow the same, always fore- 
seeing that the number be not too great, in avoiding 
sundry incommodes and inconveniences that might follow 
thereof. Quoted in Strype's Memorials, an. 1518. 
incommodementt (iu-ko-mod'ment), n. [< in- 
commode + -wet.] Tfie act of incommoding, 
or the state of being incommoded; inconve- 
nience. Cheyne, English Malady (1733), p. 315. 
incommodious (in-kp-mo'di-us), a. [< in- 3 + 
commodious, after li.incommod'us, inconvenient: 
see incommode, a.] Not commodious; incon- 
venient ; tending to incommode ; not affording 
ease or advantage ; giving trouble ; annoying. 
I may safely say that all the ostentation of our grandees 
is just like a traine, of no use in the world, but horribly 
cumbersome and incommodious. Cowley, Greatness. 
incommodiously (in-ko-mo'di-us-li), adv. In 
an incommodious manner ; inconveniently; un- 
suitably. 
incommodiousness (in-ko-mo'di-us-nes), . 
The condition or quality of being incommodi- 
ous; inconvenience; nnsuitableness. 
incommodity (in-ko-mod'i-ti), .; pi. incom- 
modities (-tiz). [< F. incommodite = Pr. incom- 
moditat, encommoditat = Sp. incomodidad = Pg. 
incommodidade = It. incomodita, < L. incommodi- 
ta(t-)s, inconvenience, < incommodus, inconve- 
nient: see incommode, o.] If. Inconvenience; 
trouble; disadvantage. 
Verily she [Nature] commandeth thee to use diligent cir- 
cumspection, that thon do not seek for thine own com- 
modity that which may procure others incommodity. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 7. 
2. That which is incommodious or trouble- 
some; anything that incommodes or causes 
loss; an inconvenience ; a trouble. 
For fear that either scarceness of victuals, or some other 
like incommodity, should chance. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 1. 
There came into JEgypt a notable Oratour, whose name 
was Hegesias, who inueyed . . . much against the inco- 
modities of this transitory life. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 118. 
The . . . voyage . . . has burdened him with a bulk of 
incommodities such as nobody will care to rid him of. 
Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, Int. 
incommunicability (in-kg-mu"ni-ka-biri-ti), n. 
[= Sp. iucomunicabilidad = Pg. incommunica- 
bilidade; < incommunicable : see -bility.} The 
quality of being incommunicable, or incapable 
of being imparted to another. 
incommunicable (in-ko-mu'ni-ka-bl), a. [= F. 
incommunicable = Sp. incomunicable = Pg. in- 
communicavel = It. incomunicabile, < LL. '- 
communicabilis, < L. in- priv. + *communicabilis, 
communicable: see communicable."] Not com- 
municable; incapable of being communicated, 
told, or imparted to others. 
Hee, contrary to what is heer profess'd, would have his 
conscience not an incommunicable but a universal con- 
science, the whole Kingdoms conscience. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, xi. 
incommunicableness (m-ko-mu'ni-ka-bl-nes), 
n. Incommunicability. 
As by honouring him we acknowledge him God, so by 
the incommunicableness of honour we acknowledge him 
one God. J. Mede, Apostasy of Latter Times, p. 93. 
incommunicably (in - ko - mu ' ni - ka - bli), adv. 
In a manner not to be communicated or im- 
parted. 
To annihilate is, both in reason and by the consent of 
divines, as iiumiirnunicably the effect of a power divine 
and above nature as is creation itself. HakeiciH, Apology. 
incommunicatedt (in-ko-mu'ni-ka-ted), a. [< 
tii-3 + communicated.] Not communicated or 
imparted. 
Excellences, so far as we know, incommunicnted to any 
creature. Dr. H. More, Antidote against Idolatry, ii. 
