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Sherlock. —Want of knowledge difcovered by external ef¬ 
fect. Jn this fenfe it has a plural.—Forgive us all our 
fins, negligences, and ignorances. Com. Prayer.— Puniili me 
not for my fins and ignorances. Tohit. 
Ignorance in law. Want of knowledge of the law 
{hall not excufe any man from the penalty of it. Every 
perfon is bound at his peril to take notice what the law 
of the realm is ; and ignorance of it, though it be invin¬ 
cible, where a man affirms that he hath done all that in 
him lies to know the law, will not excufe him. Do£l. & 
Stud. i. 46. Plowd. 343. And an infant of the age of dif- 
cretion (hall be puniffied for crimes, though he be igno¬ 
rant of the law ; but infants of tender age, have ignorance 
by nature to excufe them; fo perfons non compos have igno¬ 
rance by the hand of God. Stud. Comp. 83, 84. 
Though ignorance of the law excufefh not, ignorance of 
the ./ift^doth ; as if a perfon buy a horfe or other thing in 
open market, of one that had no property therein, and not 
knowing but he had right; in that cafe he hath good ti¬ 
tle, and the ignorance fliall excufe him. Dc£l. & Stud. 309. 
But if the party bought the horfe out of the market, or 
knew the feller had no right, the buying in open market 
would not have excufed. Ibid. 5 Rep. 83. Alfo where a 
man is to enter into land or feize goods, See. he mull fee 
that what he does be rightly done, or his ignorance fliall 
be no excufe. Wood's Inf. 608. Ignorance of fact is a de¬ 
left of will, when a man, intending to do a lawful aft, 
does that which is unlawful. For here, the deed and the 
will afting l'eparately, there is not that conjunftion be¬ 
tween them which is necellary to form a criminal aft; as 
if a man, intending to kill a thief or houfebreaker in his 
own lioufe, by miftake kills one of his own family. This 
is no criminal aftion. Cro. Car. 538. But if a man thinks 
lie has a right to kill a perfon excommunicated or out¬ 
lawed wherever he meets him, and does fo, this is murder, 
as it proceeds from a criminal ignorance of the law. 
4 Comm. 27. 
IG'NORANT, adj. [Fr. from ignorans, Lat.] Wanting 
knowledge; unlearned ; uninftrufted , unenlightened.— 
He that doth not know thofe things which are of ufe for 
him to know-, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may 
know befides. Tillotfon. 
Fools grant whate’er ambition craves, 
And men, once ignorant, are flaves. Pope. 
Unknowm ; undifeovered. This is merely poetical: 
•If you know aught, which does behove my knowledge 
Thereof to be informed, imprifon’t not 
In ignorant concealment. Shakefpeare. 
Without knowledge of fome particular.—Let not judges 
be fo ignorant of their own right, as to think there is not 
left to them, as a principal part of their office, a wife ap¬ 
plication of laws. Bacon. 
O vifions ill forefeen ! Better had I 
Liv’d ignorant of future! fo had borne 
My part of evil only. Milton. 
Unacquainted with. In a good fenfe. — Ignorant of guilt, I 
fear not ihame. Dry den.— Ignorantly made or done. Un- 
tifual ; 
His fhipping, 
Poor ignorant baubles, on our terrible feas 
Like egg-lhells mov’d. Shakefpeare. 
- IG'NORANT, f. One untaught, unlettered, unin¬ 
ftrufted : 
Did I for this take pains to teach 
Our zealous ignorants to preach ! Denham. 
IG'NORANTLY, adv. Without knowledge ; unikil- 
fully; without information.—When a poet, an orator, or 
a painter, has performed admirably, we fometimes miltake 
his blunders for beauties, and are fo ignorantly fond as to 
copy after them. Watts. 
The greateft and moft cruel foes we have 
Are thofe whom you would ignorantly fare. Dryden, 
Vol. X. No. 722. 
I H Tt 
To IGNO'RE, v.a. [_ignorer , Fr. ignora, Lat.] Not to 
know ; to be ignorant of. This word Boyle endeavour¬ 
ed to introduce; but it has not been received —I ignored 
not the ftrifter interpretation, given by modern critics to 
divers texts, by me alleged. Boyle. 
IGNOS'CIBLE, adj. [igjiofcibilis, Lat.] Capable of par¬ 
don. Di£l. 
IGNY', a town of France, in the department of the 
Marne : five miles fouth of Fifmes. 
IGRAN'DE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Allier, and chief place of a canton, in the diitrift of 
Cerilly: two leagues iouth-eaft of Cerilly. 
IGRA'NI, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Dalmatia: forty-four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of 
Mo (tar. 
IGRI'DI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania, fituated on a large lake. 
IGUALE'JA, a town of Spain, in the province of Gre¬ 
nada : three miles fouth-eall of Ronda. 
IGUI'DI, a town and diitrift of Africa, in the coun¬ 
try of Sahara: the country is otherwife called Lvnpta, 
IGUI'RA, a tow'n of Africa, on the Gold Coaft, in 
the country of Soko, near which is dug very fine gold. 
IGUIT'PO, a town of South America, in the country 
of Brafii, and government of St. Paul. 
IGUN'SKOI, a town of Rutfia, near the eaftern extre¬ 
mity of the continent of Alia. Lat. 65.45. N- Ion. 206. 20. 
IGU'VIUM, a town of Umbria, on the Via Flaminia; 
now Gubio. 
I'HOR, Jo'hor, or Jor, a town of Afia, in Malacca, 
and capital of a province of the fame name in the penin- 
fula beyond the Ganges. It was taken by the Portu- 
guele in 1603, who deftroyed it, and carried off the can¬ 
non; but it has fince been rebuilt, and is now in poffel- 
fion of the Dutch. Lat. 1.15.N. Ion. 93. 55. E. 
IHRE (John), knight of the Swediffi order of the Po¬ 
lar Star, public profelfor of rhetoric and politics in the 
univerfity of Uplal, and member of the Academy of Sci¬ 
ences at Stockholm, was born in the month -of March 
1707. Having at an early age loft his father, who was 
profeffor of theology at Lund, young Ihre was taken un¬ 
der the proteftion of his grandfather, then arclibilhop of 
Uplal, at which place he ftudied. After he had com¬ 
pleted his academic ftudies, he fet out in 1730 on his 
travels : he vifited Germany, England, France, the Low 
Countries, and Denmark; and in 1733 returned to Up- 
fal, where he difputed “ De Ufu Accentuum Hebraeo- 
rum,” and was elefted a member of the Academy of Sci¬ 
ences. Two years after he was appointed fub-librarian, 
and in 1737 public profeffor of poetry. This office 
proved, at firft, highly agreeable to him, and, by his lec¬ 
tures on Horace, Virgil, and Ovid, he foon excited among 
his pupils a tafte for the beauties of poetry; but the num¬ 
ber of the ffudents who applied to this branch of ftudy 
being too frnall, he exprelfed a willi of obtaining another 
prolefforffiip. This wilh was foon gratified, for in the 
year 1748 he was appointed by the king profeffor of rhe¬ 
toric and politics; an office the duties of which he dif- 
charged for forty years with great reputation, and with 
much benefit to his pupils, many of whom were of the 
higher orders. But, though the greater part of his time 
was neceilarily required for his academic labours, he de¬ 
voted fome part of it to the improvement of the literature 
of his country ; and, as he made choice of thofe fubjefts 
which had been neglefted by others, the fervice he ren¬ 
dered to it in this way was the more meritorious. Hav¬ 
ing tranflated into Swedilh the Lady's Library, written by 
fir Richard Steele, he was convinced that he was ftill very 
deficient in the knowledge of his own language, and was 
therefore Itrongly excited to examine it with more atten¬ 
tion. in the year 1766, he publilhed a Lexicon Dialec- 
torum, in which he explained and illuftrated obfolete 
words, ftill ul'ed in the provinces; and in 1769, his valu¬ 
able Glojfarium Sueo-Gothicum, in 2 vols. folio, which is well 
known to pliilologifts. Sweden is indebted to him alfo 
•for an explanation of the old catalogue of the Suec-Go 
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