indissolvable 
indissolvable (in-di-zol'va-bl), . [Formerly 
also indissolvible ; < in- 3 4- dissolvable.] That 
cannot be dissolved or loosened; indissoluble. 
It is from God that two are made one by an indissolvable 
tie. Warburton, Works, IX. xvii. 
indissolvableness (in-di-zol'va-bl-nes), n. In- 
dissolubility. 
indistancyt (in-dis'tan-si), n. [< in- 3 + dis- 
tance.'] Lack of distance or separation ; close- 
ness. 
By way of determination and indistancy. 
Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, v. 
indistinct (in-dis-tingkf ), a. [< ME. "indistinct 
(in adv. indistinctly) ; = F. Pr. indistinct = Sp. 
indistinto = Pg. indistincto =It. indistinto, < L. 
indistinctus, not distinguishable, obscure, < in- 
priv. + distinetus, distinct: see distinct.] 1. 
Not distinct to the senses ; not clearly distin- 
guishable or perceptible ; not to be discrimi- 
nated; confused; blurred; obscure: as, indis- 
tinct outlines; an indistinct sound. 
That which is now a horse, even with a thought 
The rack dislimns, and makes It indistinct, 
As water is in water. Shak., A. and C., iv. 12. 
Nature speaks her own meaning with an indistinct and 
faltering voice. J. Caird. 
2. Not distinct to the mind ; not clearly defined 
as to parts or details; indefinite; confused: as, 
indistinct notions. See clear, 6. 3. Not giving 
or having distinct impressions, images, or per- 
ceptions; dim; dull; imperfect: as, indistinct 
vision ; an indistinct remembrance. 
Thy indistinct expressions seem 
Like language utter'd in a dream. 
Cowper, To Mary (1793). 
= Syn. Undefined, indistinguishable, dim, vague, uncer- 
tain, ambiguous. 
indistinctiblet (in-dis-tingk'ti-bl), a. [< in- 3 + 
distinct + -ible.] Indistinguishable. 
'A favourite 1 old romance is founded on the indistinctible 
likeness of two of Charlemagne's knyghtes, Amys and 
Amelion. T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, III., Dis. on 
[the Gesta Romanorum. 
indistinction (in-dis-tingk'shon), n. [= F. in- 
distinction = Sp. indistincion = Pg. indistincgao 
= It. indistinsione; as in- 3 + distinction.'] 1. 
Lack of distinction in kind or character; con- 
fusion ; indiscrimination. 
The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath 
made some doubt. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
There is nothing in any one of these so numerous love 
songs to indicate who or what the lady was. . . . Was it 
always one woman? or are there a dozen here immortal- 
ized in cold indistinction! 
S. L. Stevenson, Charles of Orleans. 
2. Absence of distinction in condition or rank ; 
equality; sameness. 
An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, 
is far from agreeable to the will of God. Bp. Sprat. 
3. Indistinctness ; obscurity; dimness. [Rare.] 
The winds bore the warning sounds away ; 
Wild indistinction did their place supply ; 
Half heard, half lost, th' imperfect accents die. 
W. llarte, Eulogius. 
indistinctive (in-dis-tingk'tiv), a. [< in- 3 + 
distinctive.] 1. Indistinguishable from others. 
2. Not capable of distinguishing or of mak- 
ing distinction. 
indistinctiveness (in-dis-tingk'tiv-nes), n. 1. 
The state or quality of being indistinguishable 
from others. 
The general indistinctiveness from distance. 
De Quincey. 
2. Incapacity for distinguishing or making dis- 
tinctions. Worcester, Supp. 
indistinctly (in-dis-tingkt'li), adv. [< ME. in- 
distinctly; < indistinct + -fy 2 .] 1. In an in- 
distinct manner ; not clearly or definitely ; 
obscurely ; dimly : as, the border is indistinct- 
ly marked; the words were indistinctly pro- 
nounced. 
In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends 
confusedly and indistinctly. Newton, Opticks. 
2f. Without distinction or preference. 
The hoore [white] 
And every hewe [of swine] to have in places warme 
Is indistinctly good, and may not harme. 
Palladiits, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.X p. 99. 
indistinctness (in-dis-tingkt'nes), n. \. The 
quality or condition of being indistinct ; confu- 
sion; uncertainty; obscurity; faintness; dim- 
ness: as, indistinctness of vision or of voice. 
2. In psycnol., that character of apprehension 
which consists in a deficiency of conscious- 
ness of the parts of the concept or idea appre- 
hended. Sensuous indistinctness is the want of distinc- 
tion between the parts of a sensation ; intellectual indis- 
tinctness is the want of distinction between the parts of 
an intellectual cognition. 
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As a last source of indistinctness may be mentioned the 
intrusion of feeling into the intellectual domain. 
J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 407. 
indistinguishable (in-dis-ting'gwish-a-bl), a. 
[< in- 3 + distinguishable.] Not distinguishable; 
incapable of being distinguished, separated, or 
discriminated. 
The screams which accompany bodily suffering are in- 
distinguishable from those which accompany suffering of 
mind. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., 498. 
indistinguishableness (in-dis-ting'gwish-a-bl- 
nes), n. The state or quality of being indis- 
tinguishable. H. Spencer. 
indistinguishably (in-dis-ting' gwish-a-bli), 
adv. So as not to be distinguishable. 
indistinguishedt (in-dis-ting'gwisht), a. [< in- 3 
+ distinguished.] Indiscriminate; confused. 
In that indistinguisht mass all things seemed one. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 14. 
indistinguishingt (in-dis-ting'gwish-ing) ; a. 
[< in- 3 + distinguishing.] Undistinguishing ; 
indiscriminative. Johnson. 
indistributable (in-dis-trib'u-ta-bl), a. [< in- 3 
+ distributable.] Incapable of distribution or 
apportionment. 
That in respect of which all are to count alike cannot 
be happiness itself, which is indistributable. 
H. Spencer, Data of Ethics, p. 236. 
indisturbance (in-dis-ter'bans), n. [< in- 3 + 
disturbance.] Freedom from disturbance ; re- 
pose; tranquillity; calmness. 
What is called by the Stoicks apathy, and by the Scep- 
ticks indisturbance, seems all but to mean great tranquil- 
lity of mind. Temple. 
inditch (in-dich'), v. t. [< *re-l + ditch.] To 
bury in a ditch. 
Deserv'dst thon ill? well were thy name and thee, 
Wert thou inilitched in great secrecie. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, iii. 2. 
One was cast dead into the Thames at Stanes, and 
drawne with a boat and a rope downe some part of the 
river, and dragged to shore and indiched. 
John Taylor, Works (1630). 
indite (in-dlf), v.; pret. and pp. indited, ppr. 
inditing. [Formerly also endite; < ME. enditen, 
< OF. enditer, enditier, inditer, etc., write, ac- 
cuse: see indict.] I. trans. 1. To put into 
verbal form ; compose ; write. 
He cowde songes make and wel endite, 
Juste and eek daunce, and wel purtreye and write. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 95. 
Nigel writing his verses, polishing the great medieval 
satire Burnellus, or inditing the prose letter in which he 
castigates the faults of the secular clergy. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 145. 
2. To conceive the form of ; arrange for utter- 
ance or writing: only in the place cited. 
My heart is inditing a good matter. [Revised version, 
"My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter.'! Ps. xlv. 1. 
3|. In the following passage, to invite: per- 
haps a misprint. 
She will indite him to some supper. 
Shak. (Globe ed.), R. and J., Ii. 4. 
II. intrans. To compose ; write. 
Thou art young and handsome yet, and well enough 
To please a widow ; thou canst sing, and tell 
These foolish love-tales, and indite a little. 
Beau, and FL, Captain, ii. 1. 
inditement (in-dit'ment), n. [< indite + -ment.] 
1. The act of inditing. 2f. That which is in- 
dited; an indictment. 
The inditement was drawn, and the case pleaded before 
the governour of Macedon, for that the Romans did send 
no governours at that time into Greece. 
North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 410. 
inditer (in-di'ter), n. [Formerly also enditer; 
< ME. enditer, enditour, < OF. enditour; < enditer, 
indite: see indite.] One who indites; a writer 
or scribbler. 
The first were of enditours 
Of olde Cronike, and eke auctours. 
Cower, Conf. Amant., viii. 
Himself will be acknowledged, by all that read him, the 
basest and hungriest enditer that could take the boldness 
to look abroad. Milton, Colasterion. 
The Muses are no longer invoked by every unhappy in- 
diter of verse. Story, Misc. Writings, p. 367. 
indium (in'di-um), re. [NL., < L. ind(icum), 
indigo, a blue pigment (see indigo), + -ium.] 
Chemical symbol, In ; atomic weight, 113.7. A 
rare metallic element found in the zinc-blende 
of Freiberg, Saxony, and some other localities, 
and discovered by means of the spectroscope : 
so called from its giving a blue line in the 
spectrum. It is a very soft lead-colored metal, with 
metallic luster, and much resembles lead in its physical 
qualities. Its compounds impart a violet tint to flame. 
indivertible (iu-di-ver'ti-bl), . [< in- 3 + di- 
vertible.] Not divertible ; incapable of being 
turned aside or out of a course. 
individualism 
Thomas Coventry, , 
moving column. 
indivertible from his way as :\ 
Lamb, Elia, p. 152. 
individablet (in-di-vi'da-bl), a. [< i- 8 + di- 
vidable.] Not dividable ; indivisible. 
The best actors in the world . . . for . . . scene indi- 
vidable, or poem unlimited. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 
indiyidedt (in-di-vi'ded), . [< in- 3 + divided. ] 
Undivided. 
St. Cyril, in his first book against Julian, thinks there 
was a representation of the blessed individed Trinity. 
Bp. Patrictc, On Gen. xviii. 2. 
individual (in-di-vid'u-al), a. and n. [= F. 
indiriduel = Sp. Pg. "individual = It. individu- 
ale, < ML. individualis (cf. F. individu = Sp. 
Pg. It. individuo), < L. individuum, an indivisi- 
ble thing, neut. of individuus, indivisible, un- 
divided, < in- priv. + diriditus, divisible: see 
dividuous.] I. a. If. Indivisible; inseparable. 
He [Don Carlos] hath neither Office, Command, Dignity, 
or Title, but is an individual Companion to the King. 
Howell, Letters, I. iii. 9. 
To have thee by my side 
Henceforth an individual solace dear. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 486. 
2. Not susceptible of logical subdivision ; de- 
terminate in every respect ; having a continu- 
ity of existence in all its changes; not divisi- 
ble without loss of identity. 
Under his great vicegerent reign abide 
United, as one individual soul. 
Milton, P. L., v. 610. 
Everything in nature Is individual, and 'tis utterly ab- 
surd to suppose a triangle really existent which has no 
precise proportion of sides and angles. 
Hume, Human Nature, I. S 7. 
3. Of but one person or thing; pertaining or 
peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person 
or thing, or each separate person or thing : op- 
posed to collective: as, individual character; in- 
dividual labor or effort ; individual action. 
As touching the manners of learned men, it is a thing 
personal and individual. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 29. 
Their individual imperfections being great, they are 
moreover enlarged by their aggregation. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
The members of a primitive horde, loosely aggregated!, 
and without distinctions of power, cooperate for immedi- 
ate furtherance of individual sustentation, and in a com- 
paratively small degree for corporate sustentation. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 448. 
4. Serving or intended for the use of one person 
only: as, an individual salt-cellar. [Colloq.] 
5. Of which each is different or of a different de- 
sign from the others : as, a set of individual cof- 
fee-cups (that is, a harlequin set) individual 
difference, liability, etc. See the nouns. Individual 
property, property which belongs to one person and is 
not shared! by others with whom he is united : as, the in- 
dividual property of a partner. 
II. n. A single thing; a being, animate or 
inanimate, that is or is regarded as a unit. 
And the individual withers, and the world is more and 
more. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
(a) That which is not susceptible of logical subdivision, 
but is completely determinate, so that only one of a pair 
of contradictory attributes can be possessed by it. 
Every genus, though one, is multiplied into many ; and 
every species, though one, is also multiplied into many, by 
reference to those beings which are their proper subordi- 
nates. Since then no individual has any such subordinates, 
it can never in strictness be considered as many, and so is 
truly an individual as well in nature as in name. 
Harris, Hermes, iv. 
(6) A thing which by being in only one place at one time, 
or otherwise, has a continuity of existence in time, (c) Es- 
pecially, a human being ; a person. 
The tyranny of an individual is far more supportable 
than the tyranny of a caste. Macaulay, Mirabeau. 
A " nation " is really changed, so far as the individuals 
composing it are concerned, every moment of time by the 
operation of the laws of population. 
Encye. Brit., XXII. 464. 
((/) In biol., any organism or part of an organized whole 
regarded as having (actually or in certain relations) an in- 
dependent existence. The word is often applied specifi- 
cally to one of a group or colony of organisms to distin- 
guish it from the colony or group. Thus, many botanists 
regard each bud as a true individual, the whole plant or 
tree constituting a colony or compound organism. 
A biological indimdual is any concrete whole having a 
structure which enables it, when placed in appropriate 
conditions, to continuously adjust its internal relations to 
external relations, so as to maintain the equilibrium of its 
functions. H. Spencer, Prin. of fiiol., 74. 
(e) A person merely; a man. [Colloq.] Vague Indi- 
vidual, something indicated as individual, but not ex- 
plicitly designated, as " that man " : opposed to determi- 
nate individual. See determinate. = Syn. Personage, etc. 
See person. 
individualisation, individualise, etc . See in- 
individualism (in-di-vid'u-al-izm), n. [= F. 
individualism^ = Sp. Pg. initiridualismo; < in- 
dividual + -ism.] 1. The quality of being dis- 
