incommunicating 
incommnnicatingt (in-kp-mu'ni-ka-ting), a. 
f<i- a + ciiiHiHiuiiciitiiiy.] Not communicating; 
having no communion or intercourse. Sir M. 
Hale. 
incommunicative (in-ko-mu'ni-ka-tiv), a. [= 
Pg. incommunicative; < i- 3 + communicative.'] 
Not disposed to impart to others, as informa- 
tion or ideas ; reserved ; uncommunicative. 
Her chill, repellent outside -her diffident mien and in- 
communicative habits. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xxl. 
incommunicatively (in-ko-mu'ni-ka-tiv-li), 
adv. In an incommunicative manner, 
incommunicativeness (in-ko-mu'ni-ka-tiv- 
nes), n. The quality of being incommunicative. 
The Carthusian is bound to his brethren by tills agree- 
ing spirit of incommunicatiotinesii. 
Lamb, Quakers' Meeting. 
incommutability (in-ko-mu-ta-bil'i-ti), . [= 
Sp. incoiimutabilidad = Pg. i'hcommutabilidade 
= It. incommutabilita ; as incommutable + -ity: 
see -bility.] The condition or quality of being 
incommutable. 
This order, by its own incommutability. keeps all things 
mutable within their several ranks and conditions, which 
otherwise would run into confusion. 
liue'ihiiu (trans., Oxf., 1(174), p. 187. 
incommutable (in-ko-mu'ta-bl), a. [= F. in- 
commutable, OF. incommuable = Sp. inconmuta- 
ble = It. incommutabile, < L. incommutabilis, un- 
changeable, < in- priv. + commutabilis, change- 
able : see eommutable.'] Not commutable ; in- 
capable of being commuted or exchanged with 
another. 
incommutableness (in-ko-mu'ta-bl-nes), n. 
Incommutability. 
incommutably (in-ko-mu'ta-bli), adv. With- 
out reciprocal change. 
incompact (in-kom-pakf), a. [= OF. incom- 
pact; as in- 3 +" compact'-.'} Not compact; of 
loose consistence as to parts or texture; not 
solid. Coles, 1717. 
incompacted (in-kom-pak'ted), a. Same as in- 
compact. Jioi/le, Works, I. 546. 
incomparability (m-kom"pa-ra-bu"i-ti), n. [= 
Pg. incomparabtlidade ; as incomparable + -ity : 
see -bility.] The quality of being incompara- 
ble or not admitting comparison; especially, 
unapproached excellence. 
The absolute incomparability of work done [in astron- 
omy] with the costliness and variety of the Instrumental 
outfit. Science, III. 529. 
incomparable (in-kom'pa-ra-bl), a. and n. [< 
ME. incomperable, < OF. (also F.) incomparable 
= Sp. incomparable = Pg. incomparavel = It. in- 
comparabile, < L. incomparabilis, that cannot be 
equaled, < in- priv. + comparabilis, that can be 
equaled: see comparable.} I. a. Not compar- 
able; admitting of no comparison; especially, 
without a match, rival, or peer; uneqnaled; 
transcendent. 
Her words do show her wit incomparable. 
Shak., 3 lien. VI., iii. 2. 
He was of incomparable parts and great learning. 
Evelyn, Diary, Nov. 16, 1651. 
They are incomparable models for military despatches. 
Macaulay, History. 
Syn. Matchless, peerless, unrivaled, unparalleled, non- 
pareil. 
II. . In ornith., the painted finch, Cyanospiza 
or Passerina ciris, more commonly called non- 
pareil. 
incomparableness (in-kom'pa-ra-bl-nes), n. 
The character of being incomparable ; incom- 
parability ; excellence beyond comparison. 
incomparably (in-kom'pa-ra-bli), adv. In an 
incomparable manner; beyond comparison. 
incomparedt, a. [< in- 3 + compared, pp. of 
compare 1 ,*.] Not matched; peerless. 
That Mantuane Poetes incompared spirit. 
Spenser, To Sir F. Walsingham. 
incompasst, v. t. An obsolete form of encom- 
pass. 
incompassiont (in-kom-pash'on), n. [= It. in- 
compassione ; as in- 3 " + compassion.] Lack of 
compassion or pity. 
We are full of incompasrion; we have little fellow-feel- 
ing of their griefs. By. Sanderson, Sermons (1681), p. 148. 
incompassionate (in-kom-pash'on-at), a. [< 
in- 3 + compassionate.] Not compassionate; 
void of compassion or pity; destitute of ten- 
derness. Shcrbiirne, Poems, Lydia (1651). 
incompassionately(in-kom-]>ash'pn-at-li),arf)'. 
In an incompassionate manner; without pity 
or tenderness. 
Plead not, fair creature, without sense of pity, 
So incompasxionateltt, 'gainst a service 
In nothing faulty more than pure obedience. 
Ford, Lady's Trial, U. 4. 
3041 
incompassionateness (in - kom - pash ' on - at - 
nes), H. Lack of compassion or pity. Gran- 
ger, Com. on Kcclesiastes, p. 94. 
incompatibility (iu-kom-pat-i-biri-ti), n. [For- 
merly also inconipctibitity ; = F. iticompatibilite 
= Sp. incompatibilidad = Pg. incompatibilidade 
= It. incompatibility; as incompatible + -ity: 
see -bility.] The quality or condition of be- 
ing incompatible; incongruity; irreconcilable- 
ness. 
Whoever, therefore, believes, as we do most firmly be- 
lieve, In the goodness of God, must believe that there Is 
no incompatibility between the goodness of God and the 
existence of physical and moral evil. 
Macaulay, Sadler's Law of Population. 
incompatible (in-kom-pat'i-bl), a. and n. [For- 
merly also incompetible; = F. incompatible = 
Sp. incompatible = Pg. incompativel = It. incom- 
patibile; as i- 3 + compatible.] I. a. 1. Not 
compatible ; incapable of harmonizing or agree- 
ing; mutually repelling; incongruous. 
You are incompatible to live withal. 
B. Jonton, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. 
Now the necessary mansions of our restored selves are 
those two contrary and incompatible places we call heaven 
and hell. Sir T. Browne, Rellglo Medici, L 49. 
The critical faculty is not of itself incompatible with Ima- 
ginative and creative power. Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 99. 
Black and white are not incompatible save as attributes 
of the same thing. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 62. 
Specifically 2. That cannot coexist or be con- 
joined, as mutually repellent substances, or in- 
gredients in a medicine which react on each 
other, causing precipitation or serious change 
of composition, or remedies which have oppo- 
site medicinal properties. Such substances are 
distinctively called incompatibles.s&yn. Incom- 
atible. Inconsistent, Incongruous, unsuitable, discordant, 
reconcilable. Incompatible has reference to action or ac- 
tive qualities : as, incompatible medicines ; those who are 
of incomixitible temper cannot well cooperate. Inconsis- 
tent Implies a standard, as of truth, right, or fitness: as, 
it is inconsistent with one's duty or profession. Incongru- 
ity is a want of suitableness, matching, or agreement, pro- 
ducing surprise, annoyance, or a sense of the absurd : as, 
incongruous colors ; he had gathered a party of the most 
inronyi-uuus people. Drunkenness is incompatible with 
efficiency in an official, inconsistent with his manifest duty 
and perhaps his pledges, and incongruous with the dignity 
of his place. Inconsistent has somewhat wider uses : as, 
a man, or his course, or his statements, may be quite in- 
consistent, one part of his course or one statement furnish- 
ing a standard by which Judgment is formed. 
II. n. pi. Persons or things that are incom- 
patible with each other. See L, 2. 
incompatibleness (in-kom-pat'i-bl-nes), n. In- 
compatibility. 
incompatibly (in-kom-pat'i-bli), adv. In an 
incompatible manner; inconsistently; incon- 
gruously. 
incompetence (in-kom'pf-tens), . [= F. - 
competence Sp. Pg. incompetencia = It. incom- 
petenza; as incompeten(t) + -ce.] Same as in- 
competency. 
incompetency (in-kom'pe-ten-si), n. [As in- 
competence: see -cy.] 1. The character or con- 
dition of being incompetent; lack of compe- 
tence ; inability, whether physical, moral, or in- 
tellectual; disqualification; incapacity; inade- 
quacy. 
Our not being able to discern the motion of a shadow of 
a dial-plate . . . ought to make us sensible of the iw>- 
petency of our eyes to discern the motions of natural 
[heavenly] bodies. Boyle, Works, I. 447. 
Alleged incompetency on the part of the people has been 
the reason assigned for all state-Interferences whatever. 
B. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 367. 
2. In law, lack of qualification for the perform- 
ance of a legal act, or to serve a legal purpose, 
as incapacity for acting in court as judge, juror, 
or witness, from personal interest, lack of juris- 
diction, or other special or legal unfitness. 
incompetent (in-kom'pf-tent), a. [= F. iw- 
competent = Sp. Pg. It. iitcompetente, < LL. iii- 
competen(t-)s, insufficient, < L. in- priv. + com- 
peten(t-)s, sufficient: see competent.] 1. Not 
competent; wanting ability or qualification: 
unable ; incapable ; inadequate. 
Some men were ambitions, and by incompetent means 
would make their brethren to be their servants. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835X 1. 11, Pref. 
Incompetent as he was, he bore a commission which 
gave him military rank In Scotland next to Dundee. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xii. 
2. In lair, not competent; not qualified; in- 
capacitated. In the law of evidence incompetent it 
most appropriately used of evidence not fit for the purpose 
for which it Is offered. Irrelevant indicates that kind uf 
incompetence which results from having no just bearinp 
on the subject. Inadmitttdble indicates that form of in- 
competence which results from there being no suitable al- 
legation in the pleading to justify admission. See incapa- 
city, 2. 
incomportable 
In matters which the royal tribunal was incompetent to 
decide, a right of appeal under royal licence was recog- 
nised. Stvbbi, Const. Hist., | 403. 
= 8yn. Insufficient, unfit, disqualified. 
incompetently (in-kom'pe-tent-li), adv. In 
an incompetent manner; insufficiently; inade- 
quately. 
incomp'etibilityt, incompetiblet. Obsolete 
forms of incompatibility, incompatible. Sir 3f. 
Hale; Milton; Hammond. 
Incomplete (in-kom-j)le'te), n. pi. [NL. ( J. G. 
Gmeliii, 1768), so" called as lacking a corolla, 
fern. pi. of LL. iucompletus, incomplete.] A 
division of plants embracing the Apetalce. A* 
used by Batscn, it included the Amentaceir, Agrottalet, 
and Spadicalet; as used by Reichenbach. the Amentacear, 
Urtieacca, etc. The name Is now sometime* used for the 
Apetalce. 
incomplete (in-kom-plef), a. [= F. incom- 
plet = Sp. Pg. incomplete = It. ineatnpivto, in- 
complete, < LL. incompletus, incomplete, < L. 
in- priv. + completes, complete : see complete.] 
Not complete; not fully finished or developed; 
lacking some part or particular; defective; im- 
perfect. 
When I consider that I doubt, in other words that I 
am an incomplete and dependent being, the Idea of a com- 
plete and Independent being, that is to say of God, occurs 
to my mind with . . . much clearness and distinctness. 
Descartes, Meditations (tr. by Veltch), iv. 
Our knowledge of the vibrations of particles will be in- 
complete until the vibration is known from the extreme 
violet (Invisible) to the extreme red (invisible). 
J. N. Lockyer, Spect Anal., p. 144. 
Incomplete equation. See equation Incomplete es- 
tates. See e(oe, 5 (6). Incomplete flower, a flower 
wanting some essential component part, as one or more of 
the four kinds of organs which constitute a complete flow- 
er. Such are apetalous, monochlamydeous, staminate, 
and pistillate flowers. Incomplete Inference. See in- 
fcrence. Incomplete metamorphosis. Same as im- 
perfect metamorphosis (which see, under imperfect). In- 
complete Stop, in organ-building, a stop or set of pipes 
which contains less than the full number of pipes ; a half- 
stop. 
incompleted (in-kom-ple'ted), a. Uncompleted. 
Without entering into the details of an incompleted re- 
search, I may Indicate the general character of the results 
by means of a diagram. Elect. Rev. (Eng.), XXIV. 415. 
incompletely (in-kom-plet'li), adv. In in an- 
eomplete manner; imperfectly, 
incompleteness (in-kom-plet'nes), n. The state 
of being incomplete ; lack of some part or par- 
ticular; defect. 
Incompleteness want of beginning, middle, and end 
is [the] . . . too common fault of [Emerson s poems). 
O. W. Holmes, R. W. Emerson, xiv. 
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our 
incompleteness. 
Mrs. Brouninff, Rhyme of the Duchess May, Conclusion. 
incompletion (in-kom-ple'shon), n. [< in- 3 + 
completion. Cf. incomplete.'] "Incompleteness ; 
the state of being unfinished. 
Independence means isolation and incomplelim ; asso- 
ciation is the true life. The Century, XXVI. 828. 
I have lost the dream of Doing, 
And the other dream of Done, . . . 
First recoil from incumpletiwi, in the face of what is won. 
Mr*. Browning, Lost Bower. 
incomplez (in-kom'pleks), a. [= F. incom- 
plexe = Sp. Pg. incomplete = It. incomplesso ; 
as in- 3 + complex.] Not complex; uncom- 
pounded; simple. 
The ear is in birds the most simple and incomplexot any 
animal's ear. Derham, Physico-Tbeology, vii. 2, note 4. 
incomplexly (in-kom'pleks-li), adv. In an in- 
complex manner ; witnout complexity or con- 
fusion: as, the divine mind cognizes incom- 
plexly those things that in their own nature 
are complex. 
incompliablet (in-kqm-pli'a-bl), a. [< - 3 + 
compilable.] Not disposed"to comply. Moun- 
tagu. 
incompliance (iu-kom-pli'ans), . [< incom- 
pliati(t) + -ce.] 'fne quality of being incom- 
pliant; refusal or failure to comply; an unyield- 
ing or unaccommodating disposition. 
They wrote to complain, 18 July, adding that her [Mary's] 
incompliance in religion gave countenance to the disturb- 
ances. 11. W. Din >n. Hist Church of Eng., xvi. 
incompliant (in-kom-pli'ant), a. [< in- 3 + com- 
pliant.'] Not compliant'; not yielding to soli- 
citation ; not disposed to comply. Also uncom- 
pliant. 
We find three incompliant prelates more this year un- 
der confinement in the Tower: Gardiner, bishop of Win- 
chester ; Heath, of Worcester ; and Day, of Chichester. 
Strype, Memorials, Edw. VI., an. 1MO. 
incompliantly (in-kom-pU'ant-li), adv. In an 
unaccommodating or unyielding manner. Also 
uncompliant/;/. 
incomportablet (in-kom-por'ta-bl), a. [= Sp. 
incomportable = Pg. incomportaicl = It. incom- 
