inde 
indet, a. [ME., also y title, < OF. inde, ynde, az- 
ure, violet-colored, < L. India, India: see In- 
dia.} Azure-colored. 
It had hewes an hundred payre 
Of eras aud flouris, ynde and pers. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 67. 
The tother hew next to fynde 
Is al blew, men callen ynde. Cursor Mundi. 
indeart, indearingt, etc. Obsolete forms of en- 
dear, etc. 
indeaVOUTt (in-dev'or), v. Au obsolete form of 
endeavor. 
indebtt (in-def), v. t. [< -'* + debt. Earlier 
in p. a. indebted.} To place in debt ; bring un- 
der obligation. 
Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none. 
Daniel, To the King's Majesty. 
indebted (in-det'ed), p. a. [Early mod. E. in- 
detted, < ME. endetted, after OF. endete, endebte, 
P. endettt = Sp. endeudado = Pg. endividado = 
It. indebitato, < ML. indebitatus, pp. of indebitare, 
charge with debt, indebitari (> It. indebitare = 
Sp. endeudar = Pg. endividar = Pr. endeptar = 
OF. endeter, endetter), be in debt, < L. in, in, + 
debitum, debt: see debt.] 1. Owing; being un- 
der a debt or obligation; having incurred a 
debt ; held to payment or requital. 
And yet I am endetted so therby 
Of gold that I have borowed, trewely, 
That whyl I ly ve, I shal it quyte never. 
Chaucer, ProL to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, L 181. 
A grateful mind 
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once 
Indebted and discharged. Milton, P. L., Iv. 57. 
2. Beholden; under obligation; owing grati- 
tude, care, recognition, and the like. 
Few consider how much we are indebted to government, 
because few can represent how wretched mankind would 
be without it. Bp. Atterbury. 
Indebted to some smart wig-weaver's hand 
For more than half the tresses it |her head| sustains. 
Cowjier, Task, iv. 543. 
indebtedness (in-det'ed-nes), n. 1. The state 
of being indebted, without regard to ability 
or inability to pay the debt. 2. The amount 
owed; debts collectively: as, the indebtedness 
of an individual or a corporation, 
indebtnient (iu-det'ment), n. [< indcbt + 
-men*.] The state of being indebted; indebt- 
edness. 
Fear thou a worse prison, if thou wilt needs willingly 
live and die in a just indebtment, when thou mayest be at 
once free and honest. Bp. Hall, Balm of Gilead. 
The gentlemen of this country hail . . . become deeply 
Involved in that state of indebtnient which has since ended 
iu so general a crush of their fortunes. 
Jefferson, in Wirt's Patrick Henry (ed. 1841), p. 45. 
indecencet (iu-de'sens), n. [< F. indecence = 
Sp. Pg. indecencia = It. indecenza, < L. inde- 
centia, uubecomingness, unseemliness, < inde- 
cen(t-)s, unbecoming, unseemly, indecent : see 
indecent.] Same as indecency. 
Carried to an indecence of barbarity. 
Bp. Burnet, Hist. Reformation, III., Int. 
indecency (in -de 'sen -si), n.; pi. indecencies 
(-siz). [As indecence": see -cy.] 1. The quality 
or condition of being indecent ; want of de- 
cency; unbecomingness ; especially, extreme 
vulgarity or obscenity of speech, action, or 
representation ; immorality. 
Pope . . . was shocked at the indecency of a rake who, 
at seventy, was still the representative of the monstrous 
profligacy of the Restoration. Macaulay, Leigh Hunt. 
2. That which is indecent or unbecoming; 
language, or behavior, or pictorial representa- 
tion, etc., that violates modesty or decorum ; 
specifically, that which is obscene or grossly 
vulgar. 
They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or 
to the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, 
are pests of society. Beattie, Moral Science, I. ii. 5. 
Public Indecency, in law, the exhibition of something 
Indecent : an indefinite term, ordinarily excluding mere 
indecency of language. The courts, by a kind of judicial 
legislation, in England and the United States, have usu- 
ally limited the operation of the term to public displays 
of the naked person, the publication, sale, or exhibition of 
obscene books or prints, or the exhibition of a monster 
acts which have a direct bearing on public morals, and af- 
fect the body of society. McJunkins v. State, 10 Ind. 145. 
= Syn. 1. Indelicacy, etc. (see indecorum); immodesty, 
grossness, obscenity. 
indecent (in-de'sent), a. [= F. indecent = 
Sp. Pg. It. indecente,<.ii. indecen(t-)s, unbecom- 
ing, unseemly, indecent, < i-priv. + deeen(t-)s, 
becoming, seemly, decent: seedecent.] Not de- 
cent, (a) Unbecoming ; unseemly ; violating propriety 
in language, behavior, etc. 
Who [Job] behaved himself with admirable patience 
and submission to the will of God, under all his severe af- 
flictions, insomuch that he did not suiter an indecent ex- 
pression to come from him. Stillinyfleet. Sermons, II. ix. 
3052 
(b) Grossly vulgar ; offensive to modesty ; obscene ; lewd. 
When wine has given indecent language birth, 
And forc'd the floodgates of licentious mirth. 
Coutper, Conversation, 1. 268. 
= Syn. (6) Indelicate, indecorous, immodest, gross, shame- 
ful impure, filthy, obscene, nasty. 
Indecidua (m-de-sid'u-a), n. pi. [NL., neut. 
pi. of indccidmis, not deciduous : see indecidu- 
ous.~\ A series of placental mammalians which 
are indeciduate ; the Nondeciduata : opposed to 
Deciduata. 
indeciduate (in-de-sid'u-at), a. [< in- s + de- 
ciduate.] Not deciduate, as a placenta: applied 
also to those placental mammals in which the 
uterus develops no decidua or deciduous mem- 
brane. See deciduate. 
indeciduous (iu-de-sid'u-us), a. [< NL. inde- 
ciduus, < L. M-priv. + deciditus, falling: see de- 
ciduous.] Not deciduous or liable to fall, as 
leaves; lasting; evergreen. 
The indeciduous and unshaven locks of Apollo. 
Sic T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 21. 
indeclinable* (in-des'i-ma-bl), a. [< in- 3 + *de- 
cimable, < decima(te) + -able.] Not liable to de- 
cimation ; not liable to the payment of tithes. 
Cowell. 
indecipherable (in-de-si'fer-a-bl), a. [< in- 3 
+ decipherable.] Not decipherable ; incapable 
of being deciphered or interpreted. 
indecision (in-de-sizh'on), n. [= F. indecision 
= Sp. indecision = Pg'.'indecisSo ; as in- 3 + de- 
cision.] Want of decision ; vacillation of pur- 
pose; irresolution. 
Indecision ... is the natural accomplice of violence. 
Burke, Appeal to Old Whigs. 
= Syn. Irresolution, etc. (see decision) ; vacillation, hesi- 
tation, uncertainty. 
indecisive (in-de-si'siv), a. [= F. indtcisif; 
as - 3 + decisive.] Not decisive ; not bringing 
to a decision; inconclusive. 
Hence it was that operations languid and indecisive be- 
yond any recorded in history . . . make up the military 
history of Italy during the course of nearly two centuries. 
Jlacaulay, Machiavelli. 
indecisiveness (in-de-si'siv-nes), . The state 
of being indecisive ; 'an unsettled state. 
indeclinable (in-de-kll'na-bl), o. and n. [= F. 
indeclinable = Sp. indeclinable = Pg. indeclinarel 
= It. indeclinaliile, < L. indeclinabilis, inflexible, 
unchangeable, indeclinable, < in- priv. + de- 
clinabilis, declinable : see declinable.] I. a. In 
gram., not declinable; not varied by declen- 
sion; showing no variety of form for case, num- 
ber, or the like. 
II. . In gram., a word that is not declined. 
In ways first trodden by himself excels, 
And stands alone in indeclinablea : 
Conjunction, preposition, adverb. 
Churchill, Rosciad. 
indeclinably (in-de-kli'na-bli), tide. If. With- 
out declining or turning aside. 
To follow indeclinably . . . the discipline of the Church 
of England. Bp. Mountagu, Appeal to Cassar, p. ill. 
2. Without grammatical declension. 
indecomposable (m-de-kom-po'za-bl), a. [= F. 
indecomposable; as in- 3 + decomposable.] Not 
decomposable ; incapable of decomposition, or 
of being resolved into parts or elements. 
The general indecomposable character of the lava in this 
Archipelago. Darwin, Oeol. Observations, i. 129. 
indecorous(in-de-ko'rus or in-dek'o-rus),n. [= 
It. indccoro (cf. Sp. Pg. It. indecoroso, < ML. in- 
decorosus), < L. indecorns, unseemly, unbecom- 
ing, < w-priv. + decorus, seemly, becoming : see 
decorous.] Not decorous; violating propriety 
or the accepted rules of conduct ; unseemly. 
Graceful and becoming in children, but in grown . . . 
men indecorous, as the sports of boyhood would seem in 
advanced years. J. H. Newman, Parochial Sermons, i. 123. 
Syn. Unbecoming, unseemly, improper, rude, unman- 
nerly. 
indecorously (in-de-ko'rus-li or in-dek'o-rus- 
li), adv. In an indecorous manner. 
indecorousness (in-de-ko'rus-nes or in-dek'o- 
rus-nes), n. The quality of being indecorous; 
violation of propriety or good manners. 
indecorum (m-de-ko'rum), n. [= Sp. Pg. in- 
decoro, indecorum, < L. indecorum, neut. of in- 
decorus: see indecorous.] 1. Lack of decorum; 
impropriety of behavior ; violation of the ac- 
cepted rules of conduct. 2. An indecorous or 
unbecoming act; a breach of decorum. 
As if a herald, in the achievement of a king, should com- 
mit the indecorum to set his helmet sideways and close, 
not full-faced and open in the posture of direction and 
command. Milton, Tetrachordon. 
Indecorums in respect of style may possibly be accounted 
for as attempts at humor by one who has an imperfect no- 
tion of its ingredients. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 261. 
indefectible 
= Syn. Indecorum, Indelicacy, Indecency. An indecorum 
violates a rule or rules of civility or order : as, it is an inde- 
corum, to interrupt a speaker in debate ; an indelicacy and 
an indecency ai-e a low and a high degree of violation of the 
rules of modesty : as, there would be a manifest indelicacy, 
not to say indecency, in his putting himself forward for a 
?ublic office; indelicaciesorindecenciesi\\ speech or action. 
ndecency is used rather freely, for anything shameful in 
conduct. 
indeed (in-ded'), adv. [< ME. indede; being 
the prep, phrase in deed, sometimes with adj. 
in very deed, in fact : see in 1 and deed.] In fact ; 
in reality ; in truth : used emphatically, or as 
noting a concession or admission; or interjec- 
tionally, as an expression of surprise; or in- 
terrogatively, for the purpose of obtaining con- 
firmation: as, do you believe it? yes, indeed; 
indeed! that is surprising; indeed t I can hardly 
believe it. 
Be it done euyn in dede as thi dissire is ! 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2426. 
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile ! 
John i. 47. 
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because 
indeed no man truly knows another. 
Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 4. 
The name of freedom, indeed, was still inscribed on their 
banners, hut the spirit had disappeared. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 1. 
[Originally written separately as two words, as still when 
an adjective, as very, qualifies the noun. 
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, 
for to shew in thee my power. Ex. ix. 10.) 
indefatigability (in-de-fat"i-ga-bil'i-ti), n. [< 
indefatigable : see -biliiy,] The state or quality 
of being indefatigable ; unweariedness ; persis- 
tency. 
His indefatigability of study cannot be paralleled. 
Life o/Bp. Andrews (1650). 
indefatigable (in-de-fat'i-ga-bl), a. [= OF. 
indefatigable, < L. indefatigabilis, that cannot be 
tired out, < in- priv. + *defatigabilis, that can 
be tired out : see defa tigable.] Not def atigable ; 
incapable of being fatigued; not easily ex- 
hausted ; not yielding to fatigue ; unremitting 
in labor or effort. 
Of all men they [learned men] are the most indefatiga- 
ble, if it be towards any business that can hold or detain 
their mind. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 21. 
The French were indefatigable in their efforts to obtain 
a naval ascendency on the coast. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xiv. 
= Syn. Unwearied, untiring, tireless, unflagging, perse- 
vering, assiduous, persistent, sedulous. 
indefatigableness (in-de-fat'i-ga-bl-nes), n. 
Indefatigability. 
indefatigably (in-de-fat'i-ga-bli), adv. In an in- 
defatigable manner; without weariness; with- 
out yielding to fatigue. 
A man indefatigably zealous in the service of the church 
and state, and whose writings have highly deserved of 
both. Dryden. 
indefatigationt (in-de-fat-i-ga'shon), . [< in- 3 
+ defatigation.] Unweariedness. 
Holding themselves to be not inferiour (as indeed they 
were not) either to the indefatiyation or skill of the Greek 
geographers. J. Gregory, Posthuma (1050), p. 267. 
indefeasibility (in-de-fe-zi-biri-ti), . [< in- 
defeasible : see -bility. ] The quality or character 
of being indefeasible, or not liable to be made 
void: as, the indefeasibility of a title. 
indefeasible (iu-de-fe'zi-bl), o. [Formerly also 
indefeisible ; < in- 3 + defeasible.] Not defeasi- 
ble; not to be defeated or made void; that can- 
not be set aside or overcome. 
Others objected that, if the blood gave an indefeasible 
title, how came it that the Lady Jane's mother did not 
reign ? Bp. Burnet, Hist. Keformation, an. 1558. 
indefeasibleness (iu-de-fe'zi-bl-nes), n. In- 
defeasibility. 
indefeasibly (in-de-fe'zi-bli), adv. In an inde- 
feasible manner; so as not to be defeated or 
made void ; so as not to be set aside or over- 
come. 
As truly and as indefeasibly royal as the House of Stu- 
art. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xvi. 
indefectibility (in-df-fek-ti-bil'j-ti), . [= F. 
indcfcctibilM = Sp. indefectibilidad = Pg. inde- 
feciibilidode = It. indefettibilitd ; as indefecti- 
ble + -Hy : see -bility.] The quality of being 
indefectible, or subject to no defect or decay. 
His [God's] unity first, then his eternity nnd indefecti- 
bility, his immense omnipresence. 
Barrow, Works, II. viii. 
indefectible (in-de-fek'ti-bl), a. [= F. iiidf- 
fectible = Sp. indefectible = Pg. indefectivel = 
It. indcfettibile. < ML. "indefectibilis (in deriv. 
indefeoiibOiter), < L. )'M-priv. + IfLSdefectibilix, 
defectible : see dejectiblr.] Not defectible ; not 
liable to delect, failure, or decay; unfailing; 
not defeasible. 
