inconvenient 
inconvenient (in-kon-ve'nient), a. [< ME. in- 
convenient, < OF. inconvenient, F. inconvenient 
= Pr. inconvenient, inconvenien = Sp. Pg. It. 
inconveniente, < L. inconvenien(t-)s, not accor- 
dant, inconsistent, < in- priv. + conveniences, 
accordant, convenient: see convenient.~\ Not 
convenient, (a) Giving trouble or uneasiness ; embar- 
rassing ; incommodious ; inopportune : as, an inconvenient 
house ; inconvenient customs. 
Th' emphatic speaker dearly loves t' oppose, 
In contact inconvenient, nose to nose ! 
Cowper, Conversation, L 270. 
(6) Unfit ; unsuitable ; inexpedient. 
Time may come, when men 
With angels may participate, and find 
No inconvenient diet nor too light fare. 
Milton, P. L., v. 495. 
=Syn. Troublesome, cumbrous, cumbersome, unwieldy, 
awkward, unhandy. 
inconveniently (in-kon-ve'nient-li), adv. In an 
inconvenient manner; so as to cause trouble or 
embarrassment ; incommodiously. 
You speak unseemly and inconveniently, so to be against 
the officers for taking of rewards. 
Latimer, 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
There is many an holy soul that dwels inconveniently, 
in a crazy, tottering, ruinous cottage, ready to drop downe 
daily upon his head. Sp. Hall, Mourners in Sion. 
inconversable (in-kon-ver'sa-bl), a. [== Sp. 
inconversable = It. mconversabile ; as in- 3 + 
conversable.'] Not conversable ; uncommunica- 
tive; unsocial; reserved. 
inconversant (in-kon'v&r-sant), a. [< in- 3 + 
conversant.'} Not conversant; not acquainted 
or familiar. 
Though himself not inconversant with these, he did not 
perceive of what utility they could be. Sir W. Hamilton. 
inconvertedt (in-kon-v6r'ted), a. [< in- 3 + 
converted.'] Not converted or turned. 
Wheresoever they rested, remaining inconverted, and 
possessing one point of the compass, whilst the wind per- 
haps had passed the two and thirty. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 10. 
inconvertibility (in-kon-ver-ti-bil'i-ti), n. [< 
LL. inconvertibilita(t-)s, unchangeableness, < 
inconvertibiHs, unchangeable: see inconvertible.'] 
The quality of being inconvertible ; incapabil- 
ity of being converted into or exchanged for 
something else : as, the inconvertibility of bank- 
notes or other currency into gold or silver. 
inconvertible (in-kon-ver'ti-bl), a. [= F. in- 
convertible = Sp. inconvertible = Pg. inconverti- 
vel = It. inconvertible, < LL. inconvertibilis, un- 
changeable, < in- priv. + convertibilis, change- 
able: see convertible.'] Not convertible ; inca- 
pable of being converted into or exchanged 
for something else : as, one metal is inconvert- 
ible into another; inconvertible bonds (bonds 
that cannot be exchanged for others of a differ- 
ent tenor). 
It entereth not the veins, but taketh leave of the per- 
meant parts, and accompanieth the inconvertible portion 
into the siege. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 10. 
There could never exist any motive to make notes le- 
gally inconvertible, save for the purposes of state-banking. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 437. 
inconvertibleness (in-kon-ver'ti-bl-nes), . 
Inconvertibility. 
inconvertibly (in-kon-ver'ti-bli), adv. So as 
not to be convertible or transmutable. 
inconvintible (in-kon-vin'si-bl), . [= OF. in- 
convincible = Sp. inconvencible, < LL. inconvin- 
cibilis, not conyincible, < L. in-, not, 4- "convin- 
cibilis, convincible. ] Not convincible ; incapa- 
ble of being convinced. 
None are so inconvinciule as your half-witted people. 
Government of the Tongue, p. 195. 
inconvincibly (in-kon-vin'si-bli), adv. So as 
not to be capable o? being convinced. Sir T. 
Browne. 
inconyt, a. [Prob. < F. inconnu, unknown (< L. 
incognitus, unknown : see incognito), used like 
the ult. related uncouth, in the abbr. form unco, 
in the sense of 'strange, rare, fine.' Cf. unco.] 
Bare; fine; pretty. 
O' my troth, most sweet jests ! most incony vulgar wit ' 
Shak., L. L. L., iv. 1. 
O, a most mcony body ! 
Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable, ii. 2. 
O superdainty canon, vicar incony ! 
B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iv. 1. 
incoopt, v. t. [Also incoup; < j-l + coop.] To 
coop in ; inclose. 
With sodain blindness [Elisha] smites the Syrian Troup 
The which in Dothan did him round incoup 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. 
incoordinate (in-ko-or'di-nat), a. f< in- 3 + 
.'%.,;;.,/ n AT_J. _l_j' _ j_ * 
incoordinated (in-ko-6r'di-na-ted), a. 
dinate. 
Incoor- 
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incoordination (in-ko-or-di-na'shon), n. [= F. 
incoordination ; as in- 3 + coordination.] Lack 
of coordination. 
incopresentability (in-ko-pre-zen-ta-bil'i-ti), 
n. [< incopresentable : see -bility.] The cnar- 
acter of being incopresentable. [Rare.] 
Certain sensations or movements are an absolute bar 
to the simultaneous presentation of other sensations or 
movements. We cannot see an orange as at once yellow 
and green, though we can feel it at once as both smooth 
and cold ; we cannot open and close the same hand at the 
same moment, but we can open one hand while closing the 
other. Such incopresentability or contrariety is thus more 
than mere difference, and occurs only between presenta- 
tions belonging to the same sense or to the same group of 
movements. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 46. 
incopresentable (in-ko-pre-zen'ta-bl), a. [< 
in- 3 + co- + presentable.] Not presentable to- 
gether. [Rare.] 
At the beginning, whatever we regard as the earliest dif- 
ferentiation of sound might have been incopresentable with 
theearliest differentiation of colour, if sufficiently diffused, 
just as now a field of sight all blue is incopresentable with 
one all red. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 46. 
incoronate (in-kor'o-nat), a. [< L. as if *in- 
coronatus, pp. of *incoronare, < in, in, on, -t- 
coronare, crown: see crown, v. Cf. encrown.'] 
Crowned. [Rare.] 
I saw hither come a Mighty One, 
With sign of victory incoronate. 
Longfellow, tr. of Dante's Inferno, iv. 53. 
incorporalt (in-k6r'po-ral), a. [= F. incorpo- 
rel = Pr. Sp. incorporal = It. incorporate, < L. 
incorporalis, bodiless, < in- priv. + eorporalis, 
bodily: see corporal^.] 1. Not in bodily form ; 
incorporeal. 
Alas, how is 't with you, 
That you do bend your eye on vacancy, 
And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 
2. Not consisting of matter; immaterial. 
Learned men have not resolved us whether light be cor- 
poral or incorporal. Raleigh. 
incorporalityt (in-k6r-po-ral'i-ti), n. [= F. 
incorporalite = It. incorporalita, < LL. incorpo- 
ralita(t-)s, bodilessness, < L. incorporalis, bodi- 
less: see incorporal.] The quality of being in- 
corporal; immateriality; incorporeality. 
incorporallyt (in-kor'po-ral-i), adv. Without 
matter or a body ; immaterially; incorporeally. 
incorporate 1 (in-k6r'po-rat), v. ; pret. and pp. 
incorporated, ppr. incorporating. [< L. incor- 
porates, pp. of incorporare (> It. incorporare = 
Sp. Pg. incorporar = Pr. encorporar, incorpo- 
rar = F. incorporer), unite to a body, embody, 
< in, in, + corporare, embody: see corporate.] 
1. trans. 1. To form into a body; combine, as 
different individuals, elements, materials, or 
ingredients, into one body. 
The Apostle amrmeth plainly of all men Christian that, 
be they Jews or Gentiles, bond or free, they are all incor- 
porated into one company, they all make but one body. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iii. 1. 
The process of mixing [gunpowder] is in some mills dis- 
pensed with entirely, the incorporating mills being made 
to do the work of the drum ; but it causes more waste. 
W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 311. 
2. To unite with a body or substance; unite 
intimately; work in; introduce and combine 
so as to form a part. 
To them who are incorporated Into Christ, their head, 
there can be no beheading. Donne, Letters, Ixxvi. 
The Hans-Towns, being a Body-politic incorporated In 
the Empire, complain'd hereof to the Emperor. 
Hoifell, Letters, I. vi. 3. 
Every animal sustains itself and grows by incorporating 
either the materials composing other animals or those com- 
posing plants. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 448. 
3. To place in a body; give material form to; 
incarnate ; embody. 
The idolaters who worshipped their images as gods sup- 
posed some spirit to be incorporated therein. 
Stillingfleet. 
4. To form into a body corporate or politic; 
constitute as a corporation, with power to act 
as one person and have perpetual succession ; 
confer corporate rights upon: as, to incorpo- 
rate a city or a town ; to incorporate a bank or a 
railroad company. 
Izacke says that " the cordwainers and curriers were 
first incorporated by grant under the common seal of the 
city 21 K. II. 1387." 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 331, note. 
Hence merchants, unimpeachable of sin 
Against the charities of domestic life, 
Incorporated, seem at once to lose 
Their nature. Cou-per, Task, iv. 678. 
Who do not believe Congress has the power to incor- 
porate a bank, under any form. 
D. Webster, Senate, March 18, 1834. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. To blend, merge, consolidate. 
II. intrans. To unite with another body so 
as to make a part of it ; be mixed, blended, or 
incorporeal 
combined; be worked in: usually followed by 
with. 
Painters' colours and ashes do better incorporate with 
oil Bacon, Nat. Hist 
He never suffers wrong so long to grow, 
And to incorporate with right so far, 
As it might come to seem the same in show. 
Daniel, Civil Wars, v. 
I'll wed my Daughter to an Egyptian Mummy, ere she 
shall incorporate with a contemner of Sciences, and a de- 
famer of virtue. Congreve, Love for Love, ii. 5. 
Far from incorporating with them, he was regarded as 
a foreigner and an enemy. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 15. 
incorporate 1 '!; hi-kor'po-rat), a. [< L. incorpora- 
tus, pp.: see the verb.] Incorporated; united 
in one body; mixed; conjoined; intimately as- 
sociated. 
" True is it, my incorporate friends," quoth he [the belly), 
"That I receive the general food at first, 
Which you do live upon." Shak., Cor., L 1. 
We most heartily thank thee, for that thou . . . dost 
assure us ... that we are very members incorporate in 
the mystical body of thy Son. 
Boole of Common Prayer, Communion Office. 
Gazing on thee, sullen tree, 
Sick for thy stubborn hardihood, 
I seem to fail from out my blood 
And grow incorporate into thee. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, ii 
incorporate 2 (in-k6r'po-rat), a. [< in- 3 + cor- 
porate.] 1. Not corporeal ; not bodily or ma- 
terial ; not having a material body. 
Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible 
and incorporate. Raleigh. 
2. Not corporate; not existing as a corpora- 
tion : as, an incorporate bank. 
incorporation (in-k6r-po-ra'shon), . [< ME. 
incorporacion, < OF. and F. incorporation = Pr. 
incorporatio = Sp. incorporacion = Pg. incor- 
poracSo = It. incorporazione, < LL. incorpora- 
tio(n-), an embodying, embodiment, incorpora- 
tion, < incorporare, embody, incorporate : see 
incorporate*.] The act of incorporating, or the 
state of being incorporated, (a) The actof combin- 
ing or mixing different ingredients into one mass ; spe- 
cifically, in med., the mixture or combination of drugs 
with liquids or soft substances In order to give them a 
certain degree of consistence. 
A mercurial spirit must be superadded, which by its ac- 
tivity may . . . promote the more exquisite mixture and 
incorporation of the ingredients. Boyle, Works, I. 540. 
(&) The act of uniting with another body, substance, or 
mass ; combination into a structure or organization ; In- 
timate union. 
In him we actually are, by our actual incorporation Into 
that society which hath him for their head. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
The incorporation of one town with another, though ef- 
fected with brilliant results in the early history of Attika, 
involved such a disturbance of all the associations which 
in the Greek mind clustered about the conception of a 
city that it was quite impracticable on any large or gen- 
eral scale. J. Fiske, Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 59. 
(c) The act of placing in a body, or of giving material form ; 
incarnation; embodiment. [Hare.] (d) In law, the forma- 
tion or existence of a legal or political body by the union of 
individuals, constituting an artificial person. 
This yere, there was a greats controversye betwene the 
Mayor and Citesens of the one partie, and the companye 
of the Taylors of the other partie, for and concernynge a 
new incorporacion. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.X p. 302. 
(e) The body so formed. [For this sense the more appro- 
priate word is corporation. ] Articles of incorporation. 
See articles of association, under article. Incorporation 
by reference, the bringing into one document, in legal 
effect, of the contents of another by referring to the latter 
in such manner as to adopt it. Thus, the rule that a deed 
of lands must describe or identify the land is satisfied by 
its referring to another specified deed, the description In 
which is then said to be incorporated by reference. 
incorporatiye (in-kor'po-ra-tiv), a. [< incor- 
porate^ + -ive.] Tending to incorporate. Spe- 
cifically applied in philology to languages, also called in- 
tercalntive and polyxjinthetia, as the Basque and the lan- 
guages of the North American Indians, which tend to com- 
bine the various modifiers of the verb, as the object and 
adverbs, into one word with it. Thus, in Basque, hoponi, to 
wash, hopocuni, to wash hands, hopoaduni, to wash feet. 
incorporator (in-kor'po-ra-tor), n. [= It. tn- 
corporatore; as incorporate^ + -or.] One who 
forms a corporation; specifically, one of the 
persons named in an act of incorporation ; one 
of the original members of an incorporated 
body or company. 
Mr. ... of Georgia expressed a fear that the incor- 
porators would, after getting their Bill, come back and ask 
the Government to maintain the enterprise by subscrip- 
tions. The Engineer, LXVI1. 58. 
incorporeal (in-k6r-po're-al), a. [< in- 3 + cor- 
poreal. Cf. Sp. ittcorporeo = It. incorporeo, < 
L. incorporeus, bodiless, < in- priv. + corporeus, 
bodily: see corporeal.] 1. Not corporeal ; not 
consisting of matter, or not having a material 
body; immaterial. 
This time, because it is an incorporeal thing, and not 
subject to sense, we mock ourselves the flneliest out of it. 
B. Jonson, EpicuMie, I. 1. 
